Big Sounds of the Drags

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Big Sounds of the Drags
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 14, 1999
July 24, 2000 (reissue)
Recorded1999
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Producer Junkie XL
Junkie XL chronology
Saturday Teenage Kick
(1997)
Big Sounds of the Drags
(1999)
Radio JXL: A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin
(2003)
Singles from Big Sounds of the Drags
  1. "Check Your Basic Groove"
    Released: 1999
  2. "Zerotonine"
    Released: 2000
  3. "Action Radius"
    Released: 2000
  4. "Love Like Razorblade"
    Released: 2000

Big Sounds of the Drags is the second album by Junkie XL, released on Roadrunner Records in 1999.

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The tracks "Synasthesia", "Dance USA" and "Future in Computer Hell (Part II)" were included in the video games Test Drive: Overdrive (2002), and "Action Radius" in Need for Speed: Underground (2003). "Action Radius" was released as a single upon its re-release in 2000. "Zerotonine" was played over the end credits of the 2002 motion picture Buying the Cow .[ citation needed ]

Track listing

1999 edition

  1. "Check Your Basic Groove" (5:09)
  2. "Action Radius" (3:53)
  3. "Synasthesia" (7:41)
  4. "Power of Big Slacks" (3:25)
  5. "Zerotonine" (4:01)
  6. "Love Like Razorblade" (6:08)
  7. "Legion" (4:36)
  8. "Dance USA" (3:23)
  9. "Gettin' Lost" (6:18)
  10. "Black Jack" (3:07)
  11. "Next Plateau" (5:00)
  12. "Future in Computer Hell (Part II)" (21:45)

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2000 edition

  1. "Check Your Basic Groove" (5:07)
  2. "Synasthesia" (7:42)
  3. "Power of Big Slacks" (3:25)
  4. "Zerotonine" (4:02)
  5. "Love Like Razorblade" (6:07)
  6. "Legion" (4:36)
  7. "Disco 2000" (4:26)
  8. "Future in Computer Hell (Part II)" (7:16)
  9. "Bon Voyage" (7:05)
  10. "Power of Big Slacks (Reprise)" (11:06)
  11. "Gettin' Lost" (7:14)
  12. "Black Jack" (3:08)
  13. "Next Plateau" (4:51)

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Personnel

Junkie XL

Additional musicians

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