Hood Cabled Linear Traction CD

Cabled Linear Traction Music

List Price	$13.98 (You save $1.03)
Category	Rock Albums, Alternative CDs, Rock/Pop, Post Rock
Label	Slumberland
Orig Year	1994
All Time Sales Rank	105013
CD Universe Part number	1075255
Discs	1
Release Date	Apr 09, 1999
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo

Hood Cabled Linear Traction Songs

	1.	Norfolk
	2.	Evening Return
	3.	(Symbols)
	4.	Hay Harvest Had Special Charms, The
	5.	Oblique View of an Irrationally Happy Time, An
	6.	Small Town Prejudice
	7.	Abstracting Electricity
	8.	Spell of Rain, A
	9.	Fades to End a Day
	10.	Fashion Mistake of the Decade
	11.	Summers Last Annual
	12.	Coastal Driftings
	13.	British Radars
	14.	Church, Circular
	15.	Be Nice to Everyone at All Times (With a Few Important Exceptions)
	16.	Finite Differences
	17.	Highly Competitive Cut Throat World
	18.	Hurt
	19.	Untitled #2
	20.	Thinly Veiled Excuse For Something More, A

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