50minutes

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50minutes
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released	30 October 2006
Genre	Various
Length	50:00
Label	EXERCISE1 Records

50minutes is a 2006 charity album, consisting of indie, folk, electronica, and alternative artists from across the world, with all proceeds going to the Medical Foundation.

The concept of the album is 50 one-minute long tracks from 50 different artists, compiled together in such a way as to produce a continuously flowing piece of music of exactly 50 minutes length.

[edit] Track listing

1. Trademark - 'The Return'
2. After Christmas - 'A Step'
3. Grand Mal - 'Gimme A Minute'
4. Sennen - 'Hard To Take'
5. Amycanbe - 'My Ring'
6. Jeremy Warmsley - 'The Boy Cried Love'
7. Piney Gir - 'Sugar'
8. The Bobby McGees - 'Please Don't Dump Me'
9. Dons Mobile Barbers - 'Constant'
10. Tom Hatred - 'The Turning Point'
11. The Playwrights - 'The Monkey'
12. Captain Black - 'See Me Swinging From The Gallows Tree'
13. Simon Mastrantone - 'Most Ungrateful Son'
14. Akira - 'How To Live A Better Life As A Housewife'
15. Chris McMath - 'GMT'
16. Emmy the Great - 'Big Water'
17. Ladyfuzz - 'Abendrot'
18. El Alto - 'Lazy Susans Good Health'
19. Attack + Defend - 'Diamond Pig'
20. The Half Rabbits - 'Does Not Compute'
21. Will Sartain - 'Pissed on The Carpet'
22. Mr G and Rich - 'Life And How Not To Live It'
23. The Death Set - 'Intermission (edit)'
24. MC Lars - 'If I Had A Time Machine, That Would Be Fresh'
25. Le Tournoi - 'This Time Around'
26. Headland - 'Hate Monsters Love Shirts'
27. Foibles - 'Shoe People Unite, Shoe People Destroy'
28. Jareth White - 'Don't Wanna Go To Walthamstow'
29. Unit - 'I Don't Mambo'
30. Roland Shanks - 'Ashes'
31. Action Plan - 'Man of The House'
32. The Hot Puppies - 'I Left My Heart'
33. Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies - 'Oh! Magic Sleeps That Gild These Judgement Lapses'
34. Pandatone - 'Forrest Dreams'
35. The Coral Sea - 'Your Prisons Are Home'
36. Franc - 'Troubles'
37. Rachel Lipson - 'Wise Old Lady'
38. I Am Jack - 'Tessellations'
39. Hands on Heads - 'Lasers In The Jungle'
40. Plans & Apologies - 'Kaputchawoonga'
41. Laura Groves - 'Bridges'
42. The London Beach - '2 By Two'
43. Morvern Callar - 'Lovers Stone'
44. Transistor State - 'Wake Eat Work Sleep'
45. A Million Billion - 'Plum Palm'
46. Mr Fogg - 'Top Of The Pile'
47. Dead! Dead! Dead! - 'Why Risk Death When There's Only 4 Seconds Left'
48. Wry - 'When I Go'
49. Pacific Ocean Fire - 'Death On Yr Birthday'
50. Daniel Johnston - 'You Made My High School'

[edit] Bonus Audio

There is a bonus interactive CD ROM on the disc. This has a selection of streamable bonus songs. These include Exercise1's favorite songs that did not make the final compilation due to bands recording more than one song or submissions that were entered past the deadline. The tracklisting for these songs was:

1. Plans & Apologies - Yoki
2. Cuentistas - Fathom
3. Mise en Abyme - Speech or Breathing
4. Muchos Perros - Hiatus
5. Richard Adderly - The Fight
6. Small Crew - A Very Short Romance
7. Phil and the Osophers - The Grocery Store

[edit] External links

• official 50minutes webpage
• Medical Foundation official webpage
• Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1 show - currently playing a track a week from the album