Thought for Food | ||||
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Released | June 3, 2002 | |||
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Length | 38:31 | |||
Label | Tomlab | |||
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Thought for Food is the debut studio album by American musical duo the Books. It was released on June 3, 2002 by Tomlab.[4] The album exhibits the duo's characteristic sampling from a variety of mundane and instrumental sources.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [5] |
Pitchfork | 9.0/10[6] |
Stylus Magazine | 9.1/10[7] |
Tiny Mix Tapes | 4.5/5[8] |
Tom Hull – on the Web | B+ ()[9] |
Pitchfork ranked Thought for Food as the fourth best album of 2002,[10] and as the 125th best album of the 2000s.[11] In 2015, Spin ranked Thought for Food at number 285 on its list of "The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years".[2]
All music is composed by The Books (Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto)
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again" | 4:05 |
2. | "Read, Eat, Sleep" | 3:46 |
3. | "All Bad Ends All" | 2:42 |
4. | "Contempt" | 3:20 |
5. | "All Our Base Are Belong to Them" | 4:18 |
6. | "Thankyoubranch" | 5:05 |
7. | "Motherless Bastard" | 4:11 |
8. | "Mikey Bass" | 2:52 |
9. | "Excess Straussess" | 2:06 |
10. | "Getting the Done Job" | 3:49 |
11. | "A Dead Fish Gains the Power of Observation" | 1:07 |
12. | "Deafkids" | 1:10 |
Total length: | 38:31 |
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of the 2002 and 2011 issues of the album.[12][13]
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