Answering Machine Music

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Answering Machine Music
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Studio album by
Released1999 [1]
Recorded1999
Genre Lo-fi, indie, electronic
Length37:39
Label Tomlab [2]
Producer Owen Ashworth [3]
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone chronology
Answering Machine Music
(1999)
Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars
(2001)
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Answering Machine Music is an album by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, released in 1999 on Owen Ashworth's label Cassingle USA. [5] This album was reissued on Tomlab in 2002 and included four bonus tracks (13-16 below).

In 2005, a remastered version of the album, along with a remastered version of Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars , was released on Tomlab as The First Two Albums by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

Track listing

  1. "Theme from Answering Machine Music (David Hanna)" – 0:23
  2. "When the Bridge Toll Was a Dollar" – 2:45
  3. "Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Joins the Foreign Legion" – 2:38
  4. "Cold Shoulder" – 2:08
  5. "Rice Dream Girl" – 1:53
  6. "Secretest Crush" – 1:54
  7. "A Normal Suburban Lifestyle is a Near Impossibility Once You’ve Fallen In Love With an International Spy" – 2:43
  8. "Baby It's You" – 4:55
  9. "You Never Call" – 1:40
  10. "Daina Flores You're The One" – 1:51
  11. "Beeline" – 3:47
  12. "I Should Have Kissed You When I Had a Chance" – 1:15
  13. "Hey Jelly" - 2:03
  14. "Hotel Huntington Sign" - 2:31
  15. "It’s Winter and You Don’t Love Me Anymore" - 3:00
  16. "Seattle, Washington" - 2:13

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