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Tests (album)

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Length
  
61:56 (CD)

Artist
  
The Microphones

Label
  
Elsinor Records

Wires and Cords (1997)
  
Tests (1998)

Release date
  
1998

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Released
  
1998, 2011 (1998, 2011)

Tests (1998)
  
Don't Wake Me Up (1999)

Genres
  
Independent music, Indie folk, Experimental rock

Similar
  
The Microphones albums, Independent music albums

The microphones tests


Tests (stylized as TESTS) is an album by The Microphones. It was first released as a cassette tape on Knw-Yr-Own in 1998. A CD release by Elsinor followed in the same year, but the track listing was a mixture of The Microphones's three previous albums: Microphone, Wires and Cords, and the Tests cassette.

Contents

Tests was re-issued on cassette in an edition of 20 by P.W. ELVERUM & SUN, ltd. The re-issue was to celebrate Record Store Day 2011 and was only available at The Business in Anacortes, WA. A few additional copies were sold online via P.W. ELVERUM & SUN, ltd.

Cassette

Side A
  1. "Microphone Part 2"
  2. "Tests" (Phil version)
  3. "Feedback Love"
  4. "Bomb on Tape Deck Mt."
  5. "Tape Deck Ghost"
  6. "Bass Leftovers"
  7. "Like A Piranha"
  8. "Assault on Tape Deck Mt."
  9. "Spy Cameras"
  10. "Drums That No One Played / El Nino"
  11. "Death on Tape Deck Mt."
  12. "The Last Night of the Year"
Side B
  1. "PreAmp"
  2. "Rebirth on Tape Deck Mt."
  3. "Eyes for Volume"
  4. "Quiet Groove"
  5. "OH ANNA"
  6. "Summer Electricity"
  7. "Little Songs"
  8. "Anacortes Has a Secret Love"
  9. "Night Time, Then Sleep"

CD

  1. "Tests" – 1:36
  2. "Feedback Love" – 2:46
  3. "Tape Deck Ghost" – 3:22
  4. "Like a Piranha" – 4:05
  5. "Soundwaves" – 3:01
  6. "Drums That No One Played / El Nino" – 2:22
  7. "Anacortes Has a Secret Love" – 3:11
  8. "Oh Anna" – 3:20
  9. "Spy Cameras" – 3:37
  10. "Witch Doctor" – 2:35
  11. "Monsters" – 3:49
  12. "The Last Night of the Year" – 4:54
  13. "PreAmp" – 2:29
  14. "Quiet Groove" – 2:59
  15. "Little Songs" – 4:18
  16. "Microphone Pt. 1" – 2:02
  17. "Microphone Pt. 2" – 2:23
  18. "Eyes for Volume" – 2:43
  19. "Wires and Cords" – 6:35

Songs

1Microphone - Part 2
2Tests
3Feedback Love

References

Tests (album) Wikipedia
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