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Off the Record (My Morning Jacket song)

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Released
  
October 2005

Genre
  
Indie rock, reggae

Format
  
Compact Disc, 7" vinyl

B-side
  
"How Could I Know" "Chills"

Recorded
  
2005, Allaire Studios, Shokan, New York, United States

Length
  
5:33 (album version) 3:24 (single edit)

"Off the Record" is a single from Louisville, Kentucky indie rock band My Morning Jacket released in October, 2005 by ATO Records.

Contents

Music video

The music video for "Off the Record" features a school boy telling something to a young girl, who then passes the saying to another person; it eventually spreads to an office building. The people are soon arrested by the police for telling the saying.

Track listing

Compact disc
  1. "Off the Record" (single edit) – 3:24
  2. "How Could I Know" – 5:27
  3. "Chills" – 4:40
  4. "Off the Record" – 5:33
7" vinyl
  1. "Off the Record"
  2. "How Could I Know"

Personnel

  • Carl Broemel – guitar
  • Patrick Hallahan – drums
  • Jim James – vocals, lead and rhythm guitars
  • Bo Koster – keyboards
  • "Two-Tone" Tommy – bass guitar

    • Media

    The song "Chills" appears on the soundtrack of the television series Heroes. "Off the Record" is played at the end of the How I Met Your Mother episode "Game Night".

    Cover version

    "Off the Record" was covered by Swedish performer Moneybrother on his 2006 album Pengabrorsan. The cover version is titled "Under Bordet", has a faster tempo, and is sung in Swedish.

    References

    Off the Record (My Morning Jacket song) Wikipedia
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