Broken Record Prayers | ||||
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Compilation album by | ||||
Released | 28 October 2008 | |||
Genre | Indie pop | |||
Label | Milou What's Your Rupture? | |||
Comet Gain chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Pitchfork Media | (8.2/10) [2] |
The Skinny | [3] |
Broken Record Prayers is a compilation album by British indie pop band Comet Gain. [4] It was released in the UK on 28 October 2008 through M.J. "Woodie" Taylor's own label, Milou Studios.
All songs written by David Feck except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Jack Nance Hair" | 3:57 | |
2. | "You Can Hide Your Love Forever" | 3:48 | |
3. | "Young Lions" | 1:57 | |
4. | "If I Had a Soul" | 3:17 | |
5. | "Brothers Off the Block" | 5:18 | |
6. | "Beautiful Despair" | 3:56 | |
7. | "Love Without Lies" | 2:58 | |
8. | "Hard Times" | Curtis Mayfield | 3:38 |
9. | "If You Ever Walk out of My Life" | Dena Barnes, Duke Browner | 2:48 |
10. | "Books of California" | 3:13 | |
11. | "Look at You Now (You're Crying)" | 5:47 | |
12. | "Mainlining Mystery" | 6:50 | |
13. | "Asleep on the Snow" | 3:31 | |
14. | "Beatnik" | David Kilgour, Hamish Kilgour, Robert Scott | 4:23 |
15. | "He Walked by Nite" | 2:50 | |
16. | "Orwell Liberty Dance" | 2:47 | |
17. | "Emotion Pictures" | 2:54 | |
18. | "Tighten Up!" | 4:14 | |
19. | "Germ of Youth Part II" | David Feck, Kay Ishikawa, M.J. "Woodie" Taylor | 2:19 |
20. | "Record Prayer" | 3:39 |
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