Thought for Food

Thought for Food
Studio album by The Books
Released June 3, 2002
Genre Electronic, folk
Length 38:31
Label Tomlab
The Books chronology

Thought for Food
(2002)		 The Lemon of Pink
(2003)

Thought for Food is The Books' first album. It contains all the characteristic elements of their sound: rich and varied sampling from a variety of mundane and instrumental sources combined into songs.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Almost Cool (8/10)[2]
Dusted magazine (?)[3]
Pitchfork Media (9.0/10)[4]
Stylus Magazine (A)[5]

Online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed Thought for Food at number 125 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.[6]

Track listing

  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

Notes

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Almost Cool review
  3. ↑ Dusted magazine review
  4. ↑ Pitchfork Media review
  5. ↑ review
  6. ↑ Pitchfork staff (September 28, 2009). "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 200-151". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved October 1, 2009.

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