Zoo Hypothesis (album)

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Zoo Hypothesis
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Studio album by Tub Ring
Released August 17 2004
Recorded Recorded at Apocalypse Cow Recordings, Boulder Hill, IL, 2004
Genre Various
Length36:02
Label Invisible Records
Producer The Brothers Brooks & Theresa Brooks
Tub Ring chronology
Fermi Paradox
(2002)
Zoo Hypothesis
(2004)
The Great Filter
(2007)
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Zoo Hypothesis is the title of a studio album by Chicago band Tub Ring, released in 2004. The song "Alexander in Charge" contains a sample from the movie Taxi Driver.

Chicago City in Illinois, United States

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, it has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States, and the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as "Chicagoland." The Chicago metropolitan area, at nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, the fourth largest in North America, and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area.

Tub Ring is a Chicago-based rock band.

<i>Taxi Driver</i> 1976 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks and Leonard Harris. Set in a decaying New York City following the Vietnam War, the film tells the story of a lonely veteran working as a taxi driver, who descends into insanity as he plots to assassinate both the presidential candidate (Harris) for whom the woman he is infatuated with (Shepherd) works, and the pimp (Keitel) of an underage prostitute (Foster) he befriends.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Tiny, Little" (1:39)
  2. "Death of the Robot" (1:30)
  3. "The Promise Keeper" (4:43)
  4. "Sharpening the Sticks" (1:50)
  5. "I Could Never Fall in Love with You" (1:49)
  6. "One With my Surroundings" (2:03)
  7. "Habitat" (3:29)
  8. "The Night Watch" (1:02)
  9. "Dog Doesn't Bite" (3:22)
  10. "Alexander in Charge" (2:27)
  11. "Raindrops" (3:03)
  12. "The Viking Song" (1:01)
  13. "We are the Righteous" (1:55)
  14. "Return to Me" (2:40)
  15. "Wealth of Information" (2:38)
  16. "Vehicle" (3:23)

All songs written by Tub Ring, except "The Night Watch" written by Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia & Tub Ring

Personnel

Additional Musicians:

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References

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r704566