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Released
  
21 June 2004

Length
  
48:28

Artist
  
Reuben

Label
  
Xtra Mile Recordings

Recorded
  
July – November 2003

Producer
  
Jason Wilson

Release date
  
21 June 2004

Genre
  
Alternative rock

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Racecar Is Racecar Backwards is the debut full-length album by the British rock band Reuben. It was recorded between July and November 2003, and was produced by Jason Wilson at Stakeout Studios when it was based in Chobham. The album produced a single, "Freddy Krueger", which placed 53rd on the UK rock music charts.

Contents

Three tracks were intended for the album but not included: 'Approaching By Stealth' and a new version of 'Alpha Signal Seven' were later released on Reuben's compilation album "We Should Have Gone to University"'; the third, provisionally entitled 'Hell', which was produced by slowing down the song 'Oh The Shame' to half speed from the string section onwards, was never released.

Track listing

  1. "No One Wins the War" – 3.41
  2. "Horror Show" – 2.58
  3. "Stuck in My Throat" – 3.27
  4. "Oh the Shame" – 2.09
  5. "Fall of the Bastille" – 4.09
  6. "Freddy Kreuger" – 2.28
  7. "Tonight My Wife Is Your Wife" – 3.07
  8. "Eating Only Apples" – 2.03
  9. "Our Song" – 1.56
  10. "Let’s Stop Hanging Out" – 2.54
  11. "Missing Fingers" – 4.00
  12. "Song for Saturday" – 2.55
  13. "Moving to Blackwater" – 2.49
  14. "Wrong and Sorry" – 3.21
  15. "Parties Break Hearts" – 2.34
  16. "Dusk" – 3.55

Personnel

  • Jamie Lenman – Guitars, vocals, piano
  • Jon Pearce – Bass, vocals
  • Guy Davis – Drums

    • Additional musicians

  • Nic Slack – Piano on 'No-One Wins the War'
  • Neil Lancaster – 7-String guitar on 'Moving to Blackwater' and 'Freddy Kreuger'
  • The Galaxy Quartet – Strings

    • Song For Saturday

  • The main riff was made up on the spot by Jamie when the band's manager asked to hear their new song in soundcheck. The new song they were supposed to play was Eating Only Apples, but their manager was disappointed that the joke riff wasn't part of it.

    • Eating Only Apples

  • Before making an appearance on this album, this song was first a b-side on the band's debut single, Scared of the Police.
  • Originally called 'Tonight My Wife Is Your Wife', but Andy Ross from Food records was so upset when the name of the song was changed to something more relevant to the subject matter, the band promised to call another song 'Tonight...'

    • Stuck in My Throat

  • The version of this song that appears on the album was re-recorded with the rest of the tracks after the single version was finished and before work on the album started, in order to meet the release deadline imposed by Integrity records.
  • Both the single and album version are exactly the same tempo and can be played in perfect unison side by side.

    • Lyrics

    The line 'party hardy marty' in 'Parties Break Hearts' was copied from the last scene in the film Scrooged, starring Bill Murray. Although the lyrics hadn't been finalised in early performances, the 'Hell Is for Heroes' line in 'No One Wins the War' was written a few weeks before the two bands toured together. The line was subsequently changed to something new about Hell Is For Heroes on most nights of the tour, and in later performances.

    Songs

    1No One Wins the War3:42
    2Horrorshow2:59
    3Stuck in My Throat3:28

    References

    Racecar Is Racecar Backwards Wikipedia
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