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Half the World Is Watching Me

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Released
  
2000

Length
  
43:39

Half the World Is Watching Me (2000)
  
Frengers (2003)

Release date
  
May 2000

Recorded
  
February–August 1999

Label
  
Evil Office

Artist
  
Mew

Producer
  
Mew

Half the World Is Watching Me httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenddeMew

Genres
  
Indie rock, Alternative rock, Dream pop, Psychedelic pop

Nominations
  
Danish Music Award for Danish Rock Album of the Year

Similar
  
Mew albums, Alternative rock albums

Mew am i wry no demo


Half the World Is Watching Me is the second album by Danish alternative rock band Mew, released on their own record label Evil Office in 2000. The album was originally printed in about only 5,000 copies, but has been reissued twice for wider distribution. The reissued version released 4 September 2007 includes a nine-track bonus disc. The original release and the 2007 reissue include a hidden track, "Ending". The final 11 seconds of "Ending" are in fact the first 11 seconds at the start of "Am I Wry? No" before the drums kick in.

Contents

Mew ending secret track


Original release

  1. "Ending" – 2:01
  2. "Am I Wry? No" – 4:53
  3. "Mica" – 2:58
  4. "Saliva" – 4:08
  5. "King Christian" – 4:24
  6. "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" – 4:24
  7. "156" – 4:46
  8. "Symmetry" – 5:18
  9. "Comforting Sounds" – 8:44

To find the hidden track "Ending", which is identified by the purple circle at the center of the disc, start the opening track "Am I Wry? No" and rewind past 0:00.

Bonus tracks on first reissue

  1. "She Came Home for Christmas" – 4:01
  2. "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" – 2:01

This version did not include the hidden track "Ending", but added 2 bonus tracks (which are versions unique to this record). It is identifiable by a slightly different cover where the text has a white border, and an expanded booklet with full-page photographs of the band members. The disc is reflective, not totally white like the original release.

2007 reissue bonus disc

  1. "Half The World Is Watching Me" (studio outtake) – 3:04
  2. "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" (live) – 3:18
  3. "Mica" (live) – 3:42
  4. "Wheels Over Me" (live) – 2:42
  5. "Wherever" (live) – 5:31
  6. "156" (Cubase demo) – 5:22
  7. "Quietly" (demo) – 3:29
  8. "Comforting Sounds (Do I Look Puerto Rican?)" (demo) – 7:48

Mew

  • Jonas Bjerre - electric guitars, acoustic guitars, piano, synthesizers
  • Bo Madsen - electric guitars, acoustic guitars
  • Johan Wohlert - bass, guitars
  • Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen - drums, percussion, tympani, drum machine

    • Additional personnel

  • Tim Christensen - Mellotron
  • Klaus Nielson - synthesizers (tracks 1, 4, 6, 7)
  • Mads Hyhne and Kasper Tranberg - horns
  • Flemming Rasmussen and Morten Sidenius - co-producer
  • Flemming Rasmussen - engineer, mixer
  • Jan Eliasson and Morten Bue - mastering engineer

    • Songs

    1Ending1:51
    2Am I Wry? No4:43
    3Mica2:59

    References

    Half the World Is Watching Me Wikipedia
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