Control (GoodBooks album)

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Control
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 30, 2007
Recorded2006 - 2007
Genre Indie rock
Length49:53
Label Columbia
GoodBooks chronology
Control
(2007)
Control Freaks – The Remixes
(2007)
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Control is the debut and only studio album by indie rock band GoodBooks. It was released on July 30, 2007 on CD, LP and as a digital download. The end of the song "Start/Stop" has an instrumental at the end of it.

Track listing

  1. "Beautiful To Watch"
  2. "The Illness"
  3. "Passchendaele"
  4. "The Curse of Saul"
  5. "Alice"
  6. "Good Life Salesman"
  7. "Violent Man Lovesong"
  8. "The Last Day"
  9. "Walk With Me"
  10. "Leni"
  11. "Turn It Back"
  12. "Start/Stop"
  13. "Leni (Crystal Castles vs. GoodBooks)" (iTunes UK exclusive)
  14. "The Illness (Acoustic Version)" (iTunes UK exclusive)
  15. "Walk With Me (Live from The Scala)" (iTunes UK exclusive)


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