Kasabian (album)

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Kasabian
Studio album by Kasabian
Released	September 13, 2004 (UK) March 8, 2005 (US)
Genre	Indie rock Electronica
Length	53:16
Label	Arista Records (UK) BMG/RCA (US)
Producer	Kasabian, Jim Abbiss, Jacknife Lee
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (5.2/10) link Q link Rolling Stone link
Kasabian chronology
Kasabian (2004) Live From Brixton Academy (2005)

Kasabian is the self-titled debut album (originally titled 39 Minutes of Bliss) by the British rock band Kasabian, released in 2004. The Manchester-tinged album spawned four singles and rose to 4th on the UK Albums Chart.

Different geographical regions had different colours for their album cover. The UK version is black and white, the UK import is black and red, and the U.S. version is black and blue.

This album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005 (#100).

This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions. In the United States it uses the MediaMax CD-3 system.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 DVD+ Edition 3 Miscellanea 4 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "Club Foot" – 3:34
2. "Processed Beats" – 3:08
3. "Reason Is Treason" – 4:35
4. "I.D." – 4:47
5. "Orange" – 0:46
6. "L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)" – 3:17
7. "Running Battle" – 4:15
8. "Test Transmission" – 3:55
9. "Pinch Roller" – 1:13
10. "Cutt Off" – 4:38
11. "Butcher Blues" – 4:28
12. "Ovary Stripe" – 3:50
13. "U Boat" – 4:08 *
14. "Club Foot (Jagz Kooner Vocal Mix) - 4:51
15. "Sand Clit - 10:40

• Note: "U Boat" contains the hidden track, "Reason Is Treason (Jacknife Lee Mix)" which was featured on the Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life soundtrack, and the opening credits to Gran Turismo 4 for the PlayStation 2. The running time listed is for "U Boat" alone, excluding the gap and the hidden track (which starts at 7:05).
• "Orange", "Pinch Roller" and "Ovary Stripe" were not included on the original US issue, but were later included in a 2005 reissue.
• Track 14 and 15 on US Edition as bonus tracks.

[edit] DVD+ Edition

The DVD+ Edition is a special double sided disc with the audio on one side and 45 minutes of video material on the other side. It contains the following:

Reason Is Treason video

Club Foot video

L.S.F (Lost Souls Forever) video

Making Of Club Foot video

Making Of L.S.F (Lost Souls Forever) video

Field Of Dreams (shot at Farmstock gig in May 2005)

[edit] Miscellanea

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• This is one of many albums that was released with a controversial copyright protection program which limited the amount of copies that could be made of the disc and prevented the files from being ripped into MP3s. The software also prevented the CD from being uploaded onto iTunes, and thus iPods. Incidentally, iPod users who contacted BMG's customer support were given instructions on how to upload it onto iTunes, which involved circumventing the encryption software. Users were told to burn a disc using the encryption software, and then using the burned disc to upload their songs.
• The song "Club Foot" was used in various video games, including Marc Ecko's Getting Up, Pro Evolution Soccer 5, Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, Tony Hawk's Project 8 and WRC: Rally Evolved.
• In an interview on the UK's Channel 4, Kasabian guitarist Sergio Pizzorno declared this album to be 'a big, psychedelic mash-up on a farm.'
• The song "Reason Is Treason" appears on the video game Gran Turismo 4 and is also used as the intro music.
• The song "Reason Is Treason" was featured on the fifth soundtrack of Fox's hit show The OC, entitled Music from the OC: Mix 5.
• On the 10" vinyl copy of the album the masked figure on cover glows in the dark.
• The album was originally titled 39 Minutes of Bliss as revealed on the soundtrack of FIFA 2002.

[edit] External links

• Official site