Oh No

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This article is about the album by OK Go. For the rapper of the same name, see Oh No (rapper).

Oh No

Studio album by OK Go

Released

August 30, 2005

Recorded

2004-2005

Genre

Rock

Length

76:26 (US)
41:40 (World)

Professional reviews

OK Go chronology

OK Go
(2002)

Oh No
(2005)

Oh No is the second album by Chicago rock quartet OK Go. It was released 30 August 2005. The album was recorded in late 2004 with producer Tore Johansson in Malmö, Sweden.

As of January 12, 2007, the album has sold 198,045 units.

After the band's performance at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, their album moved up to #2 on the iTunes Music Store album sales charts (as of September 3, 2006). Their album sold 8,250 units in the following week, a 95% increase over the prior week, rocketing from #87 to #69 on the Billboard 200 album chart, the highest position ever achieved by any OK Go album to date.^[1]

On November 7th, 2006, OK Go released a deluxe limited edition CD/DVD of the album. The DVD contains their videos (dancing and playing instruments), a video from 180 fans doing the " A Million Ways" dance for a YouTube contest, previously unseen footage, and a behind-the-scenes look of their treadmill rehearsals for the video and for the VMA's.

1 Track listing
2 Miscellaneous
3 Band lineup
4 Additional personnel
5 Production credits
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Track listing

Songs written by Damian Kulash, except where noted.

"Invincible" – 3:30
"Do What You Want" (Timothy Nordwind, Kulash) – 3:05
"Here It Goes Again" – 2:59
"A Good Idea at the Time" (Nordwind, Kulash) – 3:05
"Oh Lately It's So Quiet" – 3:00
"It's A Disaster"– 3:21
"A Million Ways" (Nordwind, Kulash) – 3:13
"No Sign of Life"– 3:48
"Let It Rain" (Nordwind, Kulash) – 2:56
"Crash the Party" – 2:24
"Television, Television" – 2:39
"Maybe, This Time" (Andrew Duncan, Kulash) – 3:15
"The House Wins" – 4:14
"9027 Km" – 34:46

[edit] Miscellaneous

The band's cheaply-produced yet elaborately choreographed videos for "Here We Go Again" and "A Million Ways" have become YouTube staples - particularly the video for the former song, featuring the band dancing on treadmills - and have done much to propel the songs, the album, and the band.
"9027 Km", which is not listed on the album sleeve, is a 35-minute track of singer Damian Kulash's girlfriend sleeping, included on the US version of the album. He says there is good reason for it, but as of now, fans do not know why, except for a discovery by sherib on the official OK GO forums, which showed that the distance between Los Angeles, California and Malmö, Sweden was 9027 Kilometers (KM).^{[citation needed]} It has been rumored that the track was added to pad out the CD so that their label could not use the extra space to add DRM.
"Do What You Want" was featured on the soundtrack of the video games Burnout Revenge, and NHL 06, as well as on many 2006 JC Penney commercials.
The album title, Oh No, can be heard in the background in the songs "Oh Lately It's So Quiet" and "Here It Goes Again".
"Invincible" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie She's the Man and was also used during the 2006 NCAA Final Four.
"Here It Goes Again" was included on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions of the video game NHL 07 and SSX on Tour. It is also featured in the background of a Nike + iPod commercial, as well as various commercials for the movie Shrek The Third. In addition, it is featured in the music video game Rock Band.
"Here It Goes Again" was also featured in the episode of Scrubs "My Mirror Image" (season 6, episode 1).

[edit] Band lineup

Damian Kulash Jr.: vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion
Timothy Norwind: bass, vocals
Dan Konopka: drums
Andy Duncan: guitar, piano, keyboards, vibraphone, vocals

[edit] Additional personnel

Jens Lingård—trombone on "A Good Idea At The Time" and "No Sign of Life"
Peter Lingård—trumpet on "A Good Idea At The Time" and "No Sign of Life"
Sven Andersson—trombone on "A Good Idea At The Time" and "No Sign of Life"
Filip Runesson—viola on "The House Wins"
Rasmus Kihlberg—second drummer on "It’s A Disaster", "Crash The Party" and "The House Wins"
The Mopeds—actors on "Invincible" (portrayed the fictitious vocal group "The Space Odyssey Counting Gang" on the song}
Flor Serna-keyboard player on "It's A Disaster"

[edit] Production credits

Tore Johansson—producer/engineer/mixing engineer on "A Good Idea At The Time", "Oh Lately It's So Quiet", "It's A Disaster", "A Million Ways", "No Sign of Life", "Let It Rain", "Maybe, This Time" and "The House Wins"
Jens Lingård—assistant producer/engineer
David Carlsson—engineer
Peter Lingård—engineer
Dave Sardy—mixing engineer on "Invincible", "Do What You Want", "Here It Goes Again", "Crash The Party" and "Television, Television"
Ken Slutier—second unit producer
Eric Drew Feldman—second unit 1st assistant producer
Howard Willing—second unit 2nd assistant producer/A&R liaison for Capitol Records
Robert Vosgien—mastering engineer
Mary Fagot—art direction
Damian Kulash, Jr.—design
Sunja Park—layout
Dusan Reljin—photography
Tom Fowlks—additional photography