Body Of Song
Album by Bob Mould
Released	July 12, 2005 (mail order), July 29, 2005 (street)
Recorded	Late 2002, and March to April, 2005 Inner Ear Studio, Arlington, VA; Chase Park Transduction, Athens, GA; Waterford Digital, Pasadena, MD; Granary Music, New York City; Granary Music, Washington, DC An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Bob Mould (b. ... July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Arlington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia (which calls itself a commonwealth), directly across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. By an act of Congress July 9, 1846, the area south of the Potomac was returned to Virginia effective in 1847 As of 2000... Downtown Athens, as seen through the University of Georgia arch Athens or Athens-Clarke County is a city located in Georgia, U.S., in the northeastern part of the state, just off of Georgia 316. ... Pasadena is a census-designated place located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York and abbreviated NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	50 min 48 s
Record label	Granary Music/Yep Roc
Producers	Bob Mould
Bob Mould Chronology
The Last Dog And Pony Show (1998)	Modulate (2002)	Body Of Song (2005)

Body Of Song is the fifth solo album from punk/indie/alternative rock veteran Bob Mould (ex-Husker Du/Sugar). Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music1 were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Bob Mould (b. ... Bob Mould (b. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music1 were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... Bob Mould (b. ... Hüsker Dü was an influential hardcore punk trio from Minnneapolis/St. ... Sugar was an indie rock band of the early 1990s led by former Hüsker Dü vocalist/guitarist Bob Mould. ...

Originally meant to be a semi-acoustic record as part of an informal trilogy that included his 2002 album Modulate and the electronic dance album Long Playing Grooves (recorded under the pseudonym Loudbomb), the project was initially recorded in Athens, GA with former Sugar bassist David Barbe playing bass and engineering, and Mould's 1998 tour band drummer Matt Hammon, at Barbe's Chase Park Transduction studio. After recording the initial version of the album, Mould decided to put the project aside temporarily. See also: 2001 in music, 2002 in music (UK), other events of 2002, 2003 in music, 2000s in music and the list of years in music // Events 2002 was marked by significant trends in Rock Music. ... Downtown Athens, as seen through the University of Georgia arch Athens or Athens-Clarke County is a city located in Georgia, U.S., in the northeastern part of the state, just off of Georgia 316. ... Audio engineering is the branch of engineering dealing with the production of sound through mechanical means. ...

After settling into a new home in Washington, DC and furthering his interest in club music by forming the monthly Blowoff event with friend and dance music artist Rich Morel, Mould began writing new guitar-based material in 2004, often trying out new songs on audiences when giving solo vocal-and-guitar performances in clubs all over the United States. After reviving four of the recordings from the 2002 album sessions, Mould went into DC's venerated Inner Ear Studio in March 2005 with Fugazi drummer/Garland Of Hours multi-instrumentalist Brendan Canty and Inner Ear's owner/engineer Don Zientara (who worked on most of the Dischord Records catalog, including Fugazi and Minor Threat) and cut a slew of new songs. Canty's occasional Fugazi collaborator and Garland Of Hours bandmate Amy Domingues was tapped to contribute cello to two songs on the album. Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Ongoing events • Iraqi legislative election • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • Tsunami relief • Cedar Revolution in Lebanon • Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan • German Visa Affair 2005 • Expo 2005 in Nagoya, Japan • Terri Schiavo controversy • Pope John Paul II... Fugazi is an Italian slang term for something that is fake. Fugazi were Japanese deserters during World War II. Fugazi is the name of a rock music band from Washington, D.C. Fugazi was an American GI slang during the Vietnam war. ... Garland Of Hours is a three-piece alternative rock group from Washington, DC, that was founded by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and two DC-area musicians who made musical contributions either on Fugazis recordings or in live performance, vocalist/cellist/Amy Domingues and drummer/percussionist Jerry Busher. ... Brendan Canty (born March 9, 1966 in Teaneck,_New_Jersey) is a musician, and is best known as the drummer in the band Fugazi. ... Dischord founders Ian Mackaye and Jeff Nelson Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based record label specializing in D.C.-area independent punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore music. ... Minor Threat were a short-lived hardcore punk band from Washington DC. They have been hugely influential: Critics have called them and their work iconic, [1] and noted their groundbreaking music has held up better than most of their contemporaries. ...

Body Of Song contained much of the electronic influence of its predecessor Modulate, but Mould's trademark guitar work, which had been buried in the former album's mix, was brought back to the forefront. Mould's club music explorations also influenced two of Body Of Song's tracks, "(Shine Your) Light Love Hope" and "I Am Vision, I Am Sound", and featured Mould treating his voice with a vocoder-style digital effect (similar to what had been used on Cher's voice on her song "Believe"). A vocoder (name derived from voice coder, formerly also called voder) is a speech analyser and synthesizer. ... Cher can be: Cher (singer), a famous singer once partnered with Sonny Bono. ...

Mould released Body Of Song through a label other than directly through his own Granary Music imprint for the first time since leaving Rykodisc after the release of The Last Dog And Pony Show, signing a deal with Chapel Hill, NC-based independent label Yep Roc Records to distribute the album. Rykodisc was one of the first CD-only record companies in the late 1980s. ... City nickname: The Southern Part of Heaven County Orange County Mayor Kevin C. Foy Area  - Total  - Water 51. ...

Body Of Song began garnering much positive press attention in the weeks leading up to the release. An advance digital single release on iTunes of the song "Paralyzed" became an immediate hit, and a specially packaged limited edition version sold out most of its pressing through direct advance orders (shipped to customers two weeks prior to the street date) from Yep Roc's web site (the remaining stock was saved for brick-and-mortar retail sale). iTunes Music Store currently viewing the United States store. ...

In conjunction with the release of the album, Mould formed his first live touring band since 1998, with Canty on drums, Morel on keyboards and vocals, and Rockets Over Sweden bassist Jason Narducy, ending a "semi-retirement" from full-band performance.

Track Listing

1. Circles (3:56)
2. (Shine Your) Light Love Hope (3:58)
3. Paralyzed (3:54)
4. I Am Vision, I Am Sound (3:49)
5. Underneath Days (4:33)
6. Always Tomorrow (3:59)
7. Days Of Rain (5:05)
8. Best Thing (2:51)
9. High Fidelity (3:48)
10. Missing You (2:50)
11. Gauze Of Friendship (5:30)
12. Beating Heart The Prize (6:31)

From the bonus disc (only available on the deluxe edition)

1. Castor And Pollux
2. Surveyors And Cranes
3. Love Escalator
4. Lowdown Ground
5. My Old Friend
6. Nihil
7. (Shine Your) Light Love Hope (Morel's Pink Noise Mix)
8. (Shine Your) Light Love Hope (Morel's Pink Noise Dub)
9. Paralyzed (LoudBomb Club Mix)

All songs written by Bob Mould and (c)(p)2005 Granary Music (BMI) Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) is a collecting society that protects composers intellectual property in the communications business, especially radio. ...

Musical Personnel

• Bob Mould - guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards, loops
• Brendan Canty - drums (Tracks 2-8, 12)
• Matt Hammon - drums (Tracks 1, 9-11)
• David Barbe - bass (Tracks 9, 11)
• Amy Domingues - cello (Tracks 7, 11)

Bob Mould (b. ... Brendan Canty (born March 9, 1966 in Teaneck,_New_Jersey) is a musician, and is best known as the drummer in the band Fugazi. ...

Recording Personnel

• Bob Mould - producer, mixer, engineer (Granary NYC and DC), songwriter, composer
• Don Zientara - engineer (Inner Ear)
• David Barbe - engineer (Chase Park)
• Frank Marchand - engineer (Waterford Digital)
• Steve Fallone - mastering (Sterling Sound, New York City)

Bob Mould (b. ... Audio mastering is the process of preparing audio for playback on a wide range of playback devices. ...

External Links

• Bob Mould official website
• Boblog: A Quiet And Uninteresting Life (Bob Mould's blog)
• Bob Mould artist page at Yep Roc Records website