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Dude Descending a Staircase

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Released
  
July 7, 2003

Genre
  
Electronica, big beat, electronic rock, trip hop

Label
  
UK Stealth Sonic Recordings / Sony - Epic

Dude Descending a Staircase (2003)
  
The Future's What It Used to Be (2012)

Dude Descending a Staircase is the fourth studio album by the British band Apollo 440, released in 2003. The Japanese release has two additional tracks on the first disc, "Make My Dreams Come True" and "Rock 'n' Roll".

Contents

The album title and cover refer to the famous painting Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) by Marcel Duchamp.

Disc 1

  1. "Dude Descending a Staircase" (Lester Fernandez, Trevor Gray, Howard Gray, Noko, Abiodun Oyewole, Jerry Tineo) - 5:06
  2. "Hustler Groove" (Stuart Crichton, Gray, Gray, Noko, Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin) - 6:14
  3. "Disco Sucks" (Gray, Gray, Ewan MacFarlane, Noko) - 3:55
  4. "N'Existe Pas" (Gray, Gray, Noko) - 6:45
  5. "Electronic Civil Disobedience" (Jay Dunne, Gray, Gray, Noko) - 4:55
  6. "1,2,3,4" (Gray, Gray, Ian Hoxley, Noko, Pete Wylie) - 3:45
  7. "Escape to Beyond the Planet of the Super Ape" (Gray, Trevor Gray, Paul Kodish, Noko) - 4:40
  8. "Time is Running Out" (Gray, Gray, Noko) - 5:00
  9. "Children of the Future" (Gray, Gray, Noko, Nuriddin) - 8:00

Disc 2

  1. "Diamonds in the Sidewalk" (Gray, Gray, Jack Kerouac, Noko) - 3:41
  2. "Something's Got to Give" (Denise Davis, Gray, Gray, Pete Kessler, Lisa Lindley-Jones, Noko) - 6:54
  3. "Christiane" (Gray, Gray, Noko) - 5:37
  4. "Existe" (Gray, Gray, Noko) - 6:00
  5. "Bulletproof Blues" (Gray, Gray, MacFarlane, Noko) - 6:21
  6. "Suitcase '88" (Gray, Gray, Noko) - 4:31
  7. "Check Your Ego" (Gray, Gray, Noko, Elroy Powell) - 4:09
  8. "Rope, Rapture & the Rising Sun" (Gray, Gray, Noko) - 7:06
  9. "Bad Chemistry" (Gray, Gray, Noko) - 2:46

Personnel

  • Apollo 440 – producer
  • Anthony Ausgang – sleeve art
  • The Beatnuts – vocals
  • John Birchall – hair stylist
  • Tommy Blaize – vocals, backing vocals
  • Mary Byker – backing vocals
  • Andy Caine – backing vocals
  • Chris Conway – engineer
  • Stuart Crichton – cello, keyboards, programming, backing vocals, producer
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Elizabeth Gray – vocals, backing vocals
  • Cliff Hewitt – drums
  • Keith Holden – harmonica
  • Harry K – backing vocals
  • Jack Kerouac – vocals
  • Paul Kodish – drums
  • Ashley Krajewski – assistant engineer, mixing assistant
  • Kristine – whisper
  • Ewan MacFarlane – vocals, backing vocals
  • Andrew Nicholls – mixing assistant
  • Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin – vocals
  • Elroy "Spoonface" Powell – vocals
  • Tom Sheehan – photography
  • Stan Francisco – saxophone
  • Pete Wylie – vocals
  • Xan – vocals

    • References

    Dude Descending a Staircase Wikipedia
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