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Artist     : Minus The Bear
Album      : This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic
Year       : 2001

Codec      : LAME 3.97
Bitrate    : 320K/s  44100Hz  Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag    : ID3v2.3


Track Listing
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 1. Hey, Wanna Throw Up? Get Me Naked   (3:49)
 2. Lemurs, Man, Lemurs                 (3:10)
 3. Electronic Interlude                (2:07)
 4. Intro                               (1:12)
 5. Just Kickin' It Like A Wild Donkey  (4:09)
 6. Potato Juice & Liquid Bread         (4:58)
 7. Pantsuit... Uggghhh                 (5:55)

Total Playing Time: 25:22 (min:sec)
Total Size        : 58,1 MB (60 896 482 bytes)

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Artist     : Minus the Bear
Album      : Bands Like It When You Yell "Yar!" At Them [EP]
Year       : 2002

Codec      : LAME 3.91
Bitrate    : VBR ~250K/s  44100Hz  Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag    : ID3v2.3


Track Listing
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 1. Spritz!!! Spritz!!!                                   (3:03)
 2. Women We Haven't Met Yet                              (4:05)
 3. You're Some Sort of Big, Fat, Smart-Bug, Aren't You?  (1:08)
 4. Drop It Like It's Hot                                 (2:41)
 5. I Lost All My Money At the Cock Fights                (5:00)

Total Playing Time: 16:00 (min:sec)
Total Size        : 28,8 MB (30 247 018 bytes)

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       artist: Minus The Bear                                           
  |      album: Highly Refined Pirates                                     
          label: Suicide Squeeze                                             
        genre: Indie                                                      
     released: May/18/2004                                                
        street: Nov/19/2002                                                 
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  |     tracks: 14                                                          
         size: 67,2 MB                                                    
        source: CDDA                                                       
       ripper: dugbert                                                    
      quality: VBR/44.1 kHz/Joint-Stereo                                
      encoder: EAC/Lame 3.92                                            
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     01  03:35 thanks for the killer game of crisco twister                
     02  03:32 monkey!!! knife!!! fight!!!                                 
     03  05:24 absinthe party at the fly honey warehouse                   
     04  00:35 hey, wanna throw up                                         
     05  04:10 get me naked 2- electric boogaloo                           
     06  03:03 we are not a football team                                  
     07  01:10 you kill bugs good, man                                     
     08  03:03 spritz!!! spritz!!!                                         
     09  04:05 women we haven't met yet                                    
     10  00:48 damn bugs whacked him, johnny                               
     11  04:55 i lost all my money at the cock fights                      
     12  02:09 andy wolff                                                  
     13  05:13 let's play guitar in a five guitar band                     
     14  00:50 booyah achieved                                             
   В-- -                                                          
   total42:32 min                                                         
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    They may call this math rock but -- contrary to the attempt at         
    pigeonholing -- it rarely gets boring. Which is usually a good sign    
    that the usual musical designations don't really apply to Minus the    
    Bear. The only question that comes up during a casual or earnest       
    listen to their latest release, Highly Refined Pirates, is this: where 
    would you place these guys if you had to? Then comes the rejoinder:    
    who cares? Filled with complex guitar fingerwork, aural synth          
    embellishment, and spiraling arrangements that recall everything from  
    King Crimson to More Songs About Building and Food-era Talking Heads   
    to later work from bands like Fugazi (especially The Argument) and     
    Juno, Highly Refined Pirates is a trip through what's great about      
    newer indie rock that doesn't sound like it's trying to be punk        
    without the danger. Many songs on Highly Refined Pirates float         
    ethereally above their conventionally driving drum and guitar lines,   
    and pack a serious lyrical punch to boot. Such as "Get Me Naked 2:     
    Electric Boogaloo" -- comedy! -- which boasts one of the coolest       
    choruses ever committed to memory ("You said, 'My life's like a bad    
    movie'/I said, 'That's true of all of us'/You said 'I've got to wake   
    up so f**king early'/I said 'Maybe the director's turned on us'). Or   
    "Let's Play Guitar in a Five-Guitar Band," a dense collection of       
    echo-heavy vocals, light arpeggiation, distant distortion, and enough  
    hammer-ons to make Eddie Van Halen proud. But the greatest thing about 
    this Minus the Bear album is that it doesn't let its sonic complexity  
    go to its head. Each of Highly Refined Pirates' songs is filled with   
    tongue-in-cheek lyrical wordplay (like that cited above) or entitled   
    with toss-off lines from Paul Verhoeven's outer space soap opera,      
    Starship Troopers (samples: "You Kill Bugs Good, Man" or "Damn Bugs    
    Whacked Him, Johnny"). Al in all, Highly Refined Pirates will probably 
    satisfy the music notation nerds, the indie cynics, and the random     
    listener searching for something indefinite in a saturated pop         
    landscape looking to hawk the usual boring band du jour.               

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Artist     : Minus The Bear
Album      : They Make Beer Commercials Like This
Year       : 2004

Codec      : LAME 3.97
Bitrate    : VBR ~252K/s  44100Hz  Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag    : ID3v2.3


Track Listing
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 1. Fine + 2 Pts                           (3:50)
 2. Let's Play Clowns                      (3:37)
 3. Dog Park                               (2:36)
 4. I'm Totally Not Down With Rob's Alien  (4:06)
 5. Hey!  Is That A Ninja Up There?        (4:05)
 6. Pony Up!                               (3:47)

Total Playing Time: 22:03 (min:sec)
Total Size        : 40,0 MB (41 913 328 bytes)

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             Artist ............: VA
             Album .............: Minus The Bear/City On Film
             Label .............: Polyvinyl
             Genre .............: Indie

               Rip date ..........: Nov-04-2005
               Street date .......: Oct-00-2005
               Size ..............: 13,0 MB
               Type ..............: EP
               Time ..............: 08:20 min
               Quality ...........: VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo


            01. Minus The Bear - This Ain't A Surfin' Movie      [04:35]
                (Remixed By IQU)
            02. City On Film - Pony's Last Trick                 [03:45]
                (Remixed By Notebook)


            New remixes from these kickass indie bands. Good
            stuff for stoners. Enjoy.

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        :: Artist......> Minus the Bear
        :: Title.......> Menos El Oso
        :: Label.......> Suicide Squeeze
        :: Genre.......> Indie
        :: Rip.Date....> 07.23.2005
        :: Street.Date.> 07.23.2005
        :: Source......> CDDA
        :: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Joint-Stereo
        :: Play Time...> 44:51 min
        ::

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        :: Track Listing:
        ::
        :: 01. The Game Needed Me
        :: 02. Memphis & 53rd
        :: 03. Drilling
        :: 04. The Fix
        :: 05. El Torrente
        :: 06. Pachuca Sunrise
        :: 07. Michio's Death Drive
        :: 08. Hooray
        :: 09. Fulfill the Dream
        :: 10. The Pig War
        :: 11. This Ain't A Surfin' Movie
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        :: Release Notes:
        ::
        ::  "Fresh off a U.S. tour, Seattle's indie absurdists Minus The
        ::  Bear have rejoined Suicide Squeeze, following an interlude
        ::  with Arena Rock, for their second full-length, due out August
        ::  23. Abandoning their past modus operandi of
        ::  titling-as-homage-to-buffoonery-i.e. 2002's Highly Refined
        ::  Pirates and 2004's They Make Beer Commercials Like This-the
        ::  band has settled for an almost self-titled album: Menos El
        ::  Oso (Minus the Bear en espaсol). Oso is Minus The Bear's
        ::  first self-produced record, which, singer Jake Snider says,
        ::  "allowed us to bounce ideas off one another without having to
        ::  worry about the ego of a producer sitting there." It may have
        ::  also helped that keyboardist Matt Bayles is a producer who
        ::  has worked with Isis, Mastadon and the Blood Brothers.
        ::  Recorded in and around Seattle, the new album promises to be
        ::  more refined than the group's past outings, with a flurry of
        ::  vocal, keyboard and electronic embellishments (and less songs
        ::  from Snider about drinking and girls)."
        ::
        ::  Http://www.suicidesqueeze.net
        ::  Http://www.minusthebear.com
        ::
        ::  Buy it if you like it!
        ::  Go to their shows!

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- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -

  Artist:      Minus The Bear
  Album:       Interpretaciones Del Oso
  Label:       Suicide Squeeze
  Playtime:    44:57 min
  Genre:       Indie
  Rip date:    2006-11-30
  Street date: 2007-02-20
  Size:        68 MB
  Type:        Normal
  Quality:     VBR kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -

   Interpretaciones Del Oso, will be released by Suicide Squeeze on Feb. 20,
   2007; it will feature remixes of every song off Menos, with contributions
   coming in from P.O.S., Dalek, Jay Clark of Pretty Girls Make Graves, Morgan
   Henderson of the Blood Brothers and many more.

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. Drilling (P.O.S. Redo)                                            ( 3:43)
  02. Memphis & 53rd (FOG Remix)                                        ( 4:06)
  03. Fulfill the Dream (Old Italy Remix by Tyondai Braxton)            ( 3:21)
  04. This Aint A Surfin' Movie (IQU 06 Mix)                            ( 4:35)
  05. The Fix (Plan B Remix)                                            ( 4:21)
  06. Hooray (Dark Baby Remix)                                          ( 2:56)
  07. The Game Needed Me (The Oktopus Remix)                            ( 4:38)
  08. Pachuca Sunrise (Alias Remix)                                     ( 4:19)
  09. Michio's Death Drive (Michio aka Monostereo Remix)                ( 3:47)
  10. El Torrente (J Clark Remix - Jason from Pretty Girls Make Graves) ( 4:06)
  11. The Pig War (O, Hunter Remix - Morgan from Blood Brothers)        ( 5:05)

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ARTiST: Minus The Bear
TiTLE: Planet Of Ice
LABEL: Undergroove Recordings
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 48:06 min
SiZE:  69,3 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Aug-02-2007
RELEASE DATE: Sep-10-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a

Track List:

01. Burying Luck                               04:54
02. Ice Monster                                04:04
03. Knights                                    03:40
04. White Mystery                              04:39
05. Dr. L'ling                                 06:48
06. Part 2                                     03:51
07. Throwing Shapes                            02:47
08. When We Escape                             04:04
09. Double Vision                              04:30
10. Lotus                                      08:49

Release Notes:

The more distant you get in our solar system, the
more the planets tend to be covered with ice; from
the lunar South Pole to the rings of Saturn, the
substance seems to coat the outer reaches of our
universe like a snowy blanket. Alternately, for the
past six years, Seattle's Minus the Bear have
orbited the music world like a distant meteor,
fine-tuning their unique brand of indie rock and
discovering how technology can help enhance the
band's unique pop vision - all of which is about to
culminate with their latest full-length Planet of
Ice, an album showing the band not so much
transforming their sound as transcending it.

Formed in Seattle, Washington in 2001, Minus the
Bear was initially formed by guitarist David
Knudson, bassist Cory Murchy, and drummer Erin Tate
who eventually recruited keyboardist/sequencer, Matt
Bayles and vocalist/guitarist Jake Snider. Once in
the same room they realized they were on to
something special - and the band quickly earned a
rabid and rapidly growing fan base ranging from
teenagers to middle-aged parents. "I know every band
says they can't explain their music, but I really
can't say that we sound like one specific thing,"
Murchy explains. "We don't follow a particular scene
or genre and hopefully that shows."

Although the band has released a handful of EPs and
two full-lengths in their prolific career (most
recently 2005's Menos El Oso and the sister remix CD
Interpretaciones Del Oso), with Planet of Ice the
band - which now features new keyboardist Alex Rose
- have taken their brand of idiosyncratic indie rock
to new heights. "I feel like this is the most
cohesive record we've done," Murchy says. "I hate
the term 'organic,' but that's kind of the one term
I can think of when comparing this to our other
records because there's a lot of weird electronic
stuff going on there, but there's some really raw
riffage as well."

Recorded at Robert Lang Studios and Red Room with
former keyboardist Matt Bayles - who has produced
albums by Mastodon, Fall of Troy and The Blood
Brothers - and Chris Common (These Arms Are Snakes,
Mouth Of The Architect), Planet of Ice shows the
band allowing negative space and an airy openness to
permeate their music; from the distinctively
danceable opener "Burying Luck" to the syncopated
sample-driven "Knights" to the album's epic 9 minute
closer "Lotus," which evokes acts like Yes and Pink
Floyd, minus the self-indulgent tendencies. Although
all the musicians in Minus the Bear are technically
talented - as anyone who's seen Knudson's unique
approach to the guitar which features two-handed
tapping and live looping already knows - Planet of
Ice shows the band focusing on songwriting instead
of showiness.

This was really the first album where we were all
writing together as a team and Alex was definitely
instrumental in that," Murchy explains. "Alex is an
amazing keyboard player and it was great to have
another musical force in the band." With former
keyboardist Bayles behind the boards, the entire
extended Minus the Bear family was present in the
creation of the record - and all these distinctive
musical personalities make for an album that could
never be fully realized by one or two songwriters.

Lyrically, the album focuses on human interactions,
but in a detached way that Snider explains as more
like a one-night stand than a long-term
relationship. "The songs are different in terms of
theme, but the ones that do connect to relationships
are of the fleeting kind," he explains. However,
despite the occasional personal references on the
album, the central theme of Planet of Ice involves
nightmarish, nearly apocalyptic imagery. A perfect
example is the aforementioned "Lotus," a song Snider
describes as being "about the influence religion has
on our secular government and how the combination of
God and guns leads to wars of false righteousness."
While this may sound like pretty heavy content, the
lack of preaching or posturing prevents Planet of
Ice's lyrical content from weighing down the group's
music.

Minus the Bear's globally conscious outlook has in
no doubt been influenced by the amount of time the
band spend on the road, seamlessly pulling off their
song's sonic intricacies live on festivals like
Coachella and Bamboozle, as well as alongside
seemingly disparate acts such as Cursive, Russian
Circles, Criteria, P.O.S. and The Velvet Teen. "It's
an interesting contrast," Snider explains, about the
dichotomy between the band's dark lyricism and
upbeat music, which is ever more prevalent on Planet
of Ice. "I think that duality often makes for a
better song because it gives it so much tension," he
continues. "Subconsciously, that was even more
exaggerated on this record due to being on the road
so much and seeing the reality of this country
firsthand."

In true Minus the Bear fashion, the band plan to
stay on the road for the next year-and-a-half
promoting Planet of Ice and continuing to write and
push the limits of their sound. "There's kind of a
joke that if there was a part that we would play and
it made you laugh, it must be good," Murchy explains
about the band's well-known sense of humor. "As far
as the music goes, we do take it seriously but we
also like to have a good time - and hopefully the
attention to detail, especially at our live
performances, shows through to people," he adds. "We
want it to sound right, but on the same token we do
like to have a laugh and fuck around," he
summarizes. "It's a nice balance."

Enjoy!

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Minus The Bear  - Planet Of Ice

ARTIST.....: Minus The Bear
TITLE......: Planet Of Ice
LABEL......: Suicide Squeeze
URL........: www.myspace.com/minusthebear

RIP DATE...: Aug-21-2007
STORE DATE.: Aug-21-2007
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR  /  44.1Hz  /  Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 20,2 MB


Track Listing:

01 - Electric Rainbow                           03:43
02 - Patiently Waiting                          04:15
03 - Kinights (P.O.S. Remix)                    03:34
04 - Ice Monster (Demo)                         03:51

                                                ДДДДД
                                                15:23 min
Release Notes:

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ARTIST: Minus The Bear
TITLE: Acoustics
LABEL: Tigre Blanco Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 201kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 26m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-10-08
RIP DATE: 2008-10-22

Track List
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1.  Guns & Ammo                      3:59
2.  We Are Not A Football Team       2:57
3.  Burying Luck                     4:26
4.  Knights                          4:00
5.  Pachuca Sunrise                  3:38
6.  Throwin' Shapes                  3:26
7.  Ice Monster                      4:11

Release Notes:

http://www.minusthebear.com/


There really isnÆt much behind Minus The BearÆs EP entitled Acoustics. After
all, it is what it is; six previously recorded tracks and one brand spankinÆ new
track with acoustic guitars and modest percussion. Beyond that, it was easy to
see Minus the Bear going acoustic due to their intricate and soothing
indie/progressive rock with that almost emotionally numb attachment.

Acoustics begins with their new track, ôGuns & Ammo,ö a definitive highlight of
the album. One of the most impressive qualities of ôGuns & Ammoö is cohesiveness
and how refreshing the sound is initially. After all, it is the first real taste
of Minus The Bear in an acoustic sense. Anyway, regardless of the apparent
repetitiveness, something that Minus The Bear regularly pull off successfully,
this track thrives on it. Additionally ôGuns & Ammoö is one of the more diverse
tracks without reaching into a more progressive sound. Between the bridge and
the perfect pace of the song, it makes you wonder why they did not record seven
new tracks that would compliment ôGuns & Ammo.ö

Instead, I wondered how they would incorporate the progressive elements from
their last full-length, Planet of Ice, and integrate it into Acoustics. Of the
tracks transcribed, ôKnightsö seemed to be the most challenging. Between the
effects and progressive nature of the track, the stripped down track played off
well, actually better than that. The technicality of ôKnightsö is still there,
along with the incredible precision. ôKnightsö sounds tighter with acoustic
guitars perhaps due to the removal of wailing guitar work. The synth-laden
ôBurying Luckö also went through major changes, switching to a more classical
piano driving along with Jake SniderÆs vocals sounding rather ordinary without
that fire that drove ôBurying Luckö so far on Planet of Ice.

As expected with Acoustics, important little details tend to be omitted. Take
ôPachuca Sunrise,ö which was a track that begun with delay guitar effects on the
initial recording that created a whimsical sound, but instead on Acoustics the
note is simply held down. Otherwise, ôPachuca Sunriseö barely misses a beat and
if anything, sounds better than ever with a more natural sound. The last track,
ôIce Monster,ö incorporates different percussion instruments like maracas and
tambourines, behind SniderÆs best vocal work on the album, in a track that claps
its way to the end of Acoustics.

What to take away from Acoustics is a new light to view Minus The Bear. After
all, they are generally a relaxing band to listen to that stays within a certain
boundary. In all, Acoustics highlights their work that is typically overshadowed
by their use of effects, but the resulting sound was hardly a major surprise.
Overall, Acoustics is tabbed as another steady and consistent release by Minus
The Bear. I guess that works.

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        :: Release Info:
        ::
        :: Artist......> Minus the Bear
        :: Title.......> Menos El Oso
        :: Label.......> Suicide Squeeze
        :: Genre.......> Indie
        :: Rip.Date....> 07.23.2005
        :: Street.Date.> 07.23.2005
        :: Source......> CDDA
        :: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Joint-Stereo
        :: Play Time...> 44:51 min
        ::

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        ..
        :: Track Listing:
        ::
        :: 01. The Game Needed Me
        :: 02. Memphis & 53rd
        :: 03. Drilling
        :: 04. The Fix
        :: 05. El Torrente
        :: 06. Pachuca Sunrise
        :: 07. Michio's Death Drive
        :: 08. Hooray
        :: 09. Fulfill the Dream
        :: 10. The Pig War
        :: 11. This Ain't A Surfin' Movie
        ::

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        ..
        :: Release Notes:
        ::
        ::  "Fresh off a U.S. tour, Seattle's indie absurdists Minus The
        ::  Bear have rejoined Suicide Squeeze, following an interlude
        ::  with Arena Rock, for their second full-length, due out August
        ::  23. Abandoning their past modus operandi of
        ::  titling-as-homage-to-buffoonery-i.e. 2002's Highly Refined
        ::  Pirates and 2004's They Make Beer Commercials Like This-the
        ::  band has settled for an almost self-titled album: Menos El
        ::  Oso (Minus the Bear en espaсol). Oso is Minus The Bear's
        ::  first self-produced record, which, singer Jake Snider says,
        ::  "allowed us to bounce ideas off one another without having to
        ::  worry about the ego of a producer sitting there." It may have
        ::  also helped that keyboardist Matt Bayles is a producer who
        ::  has worked with Isis, Mastadon and the Blood Brothers.
        ::  Recorded in and around Seattle, the new album promises to be
        ::  more refined than the group's past outings, with a flurry of
        ::  vocal, keyboard and electronic embellishments (and less songs
        ::  from Snider about drinking and girls)."
        ::
        ::  Http://www.suicidesqueeze.net
        ::  Http://www.minusthebear.com
        ::
        ::  Buy it if you like it!
        ::  Go to their shows!

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- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -

  Artist:      Minus The Bear
  Album:       Interpretaciones Del Oso
  Label:       Suicide Squeeze
  Playtime:    44:57 min
  Genre:       Indie
  Rip date:    2006-11-30
  Street date: 2007-02-20
  Size:        68 MB
  Type:        Normal
  Quality:     VBR kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -

   Interpretaciones Del Oso, will be released by Suicide Squeeze on Feb. 20,
   2007; it will feature remixes of every song off Menos, with contributions
   coming in from P.O.S., Dalek, Jay Clark of Pretty Girls Make Graves, Morgan
   Henderson of the Blood Brothers and many more.

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. Drilling (P.O.S. Redo)                                            ( 3:43)
  02. Memphis & 53rd (FOG Remix)                                        ( 4:06)
  03. Fulfill the Dream (Old Italy Remix by Tyondai Braxton)            ( 3:21)
  04. This Aint A Surfin' Movie (IQU 06 Mix)                            ( 4:35)
  05. The Fix (Plan B Remix)                                            ( 4:21)
  06. Hooray (Dark Baby Remix)                                          ( 2:56)
  07. The Game Needed Me (The Oktopus Remix)                            ( 4:38)
  08. Pachuca Sunrise (Alias Remix)                                     ( 4:19)
  09. Michio's Death Drive (Michio aka Monostereo Remix)                ( 3:47)
  10. El Torrente (J Clark Remix - Jason from Pretty Girls Make Graves) ( 4:06)
  11. The Pig War (O, Hunter Remix - Morgan from Blood Brothers)        ( 5:05)

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