| Thought for Food | ||||
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| Released | June 3, 2002 | |||
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| Length | 38:31 | |||
| Label | Tomlab | |||
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Thought for Food is the debut studio album by American musical duo the Books. It was released on June 3, 2002 by Tomlab. [4] The album exhibits the duo's characteristic sampling from a variety of mundane and instrumental sources.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| Pitchfork | 9.0/10 [6] |
| Stylus Magazine | 9.1/10 [7] |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | 4.5/5 [8] |
| Tom Hull – on the Web | B+ (  ) [9] |
Pitchfork ranked Thought for Food as the fourth best album of 2002, [10] and as the 125th best album of the 2000s. [11] In 2015, Spin ranked Thought for Food at number 285 on its list of "The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years". [2]
All music is composed by The Books (Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto)
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again" | 4:05 |
| 2. | "Read, Eat, Sleep" | 3:46 |
| 3. | "All Bad Ends All" | 2:42 |
| 4. | "Contempt" | 3:20 |
| 5. | "All Our Base Are Belong to Them" | 4:18 |
| 6. | "Thankyoubranch" | 5:05 |
| 7. | "Motherless Bastard" | 4:11 |
| 8. | "Mikey Bass" | 2:52 |
| 9. | "Excess Straussess" | 2:06 |
| 10. | "Getting the Done Job" | 3:49 |
| 11. | "A Dead Fish Gains the Power of Observation" | 1:07 |
| 12. | "Deafkids" | 1:10 |
| Total length: | 38:31 | |
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of the 2002 and 2011 issues of the album. [12] [13]
The Books
Additional personnel
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