Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars

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Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars
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Studio album by
Released2001
Genre Lo-fi Indie Electronic
Length34:18
Label Tomlab
TOM16
Producer Owen Ashworth
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone chronology
Answering Machine Music
(1999)
Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars
(2001)
Twinkle Echo
(2003)
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Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars is an album by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, released in 2001. This album was reissued and remastered in 2005 accompanying Answering Machine Music as a two CD set entitled The First Two Albums by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. The song "Yr Boyfriend" was covered by Welsh indie pop group Los Campesinos! as a b-side to their 2008 single "My Year in Lists".

Track listing

  1. "We Have Mice" – 2:00
  2. "Tonight Was a Disaster" – 1:48
  3. "Suitcase in Hand" – 2:25
  4. "Caltrain Song" – 2:18
  5. "Dying Batteries" – 0:50
  6. "Oh, Contessa!" – 3:26
  7. "Bus Song" – 3:10
  8. "Yr Boyfriend" – 0:54
  9. "Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in a Green Cotton Sweater" – 2:18
  10. "Number Ten" – 1:29
  11. "Destroy the Evidence" – 3:42
  12. "Lesley Gore on the TAMI Show" – 2:14
  13. "Oh, Illinois!" – 1:55
  14. "The Subway Home" – 2:45
  15. "Airport Samba" – 1:08
  16. "We Have Mice (Boombox Version)" – 1:56

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