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1	Mass Romantic	4:04
2	The Fake Headlines	2:45
3	The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism	3:56
4	Mystery Hours	3:11
5	Jackie	2:46
6	Letter From An Occupant	3:46
7	To Wild Homes	3:34
8	The Body Says No Saxophone – Davidian Chorley	3:56
9	Execution Day	2:59
10	Centre For Holy Wars	3:07
11	The Mary Martin Show Saxophone – Davidian Chorley	3:19
12	Breakin' The Law Choir – Camp Northstar Kids' Chorus	3:28

Companies, etc.

• Licensed From – Mint Records
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Matador Records
• Copyright (c) – Matador Records
• Pressed By – WEA Mfg. Olyphant – X19823

Credits

• Artwork By – Randy Iwata
• Bass, Featuring [Several Other Instruments] – John Collins
• Drums – Fisher Rose, Kurt Dahle
• Engineer – John Collins
• Keyboards – Blaine Thurier
• Mastered By – Todd Simko
• Organ, Electric Piano [Wurlitzer], Synthesizer [Mini Korg] – Carl Newman*, Daniel Bejar
• Photography – Shannon Oksanen
• Producer – David Carswell, John Collins
• Recorded By – John Collins , Rodney Graham
• Recorded By [Drums] – Darryl Neudorf
• Vocals, Backing Vocals – Carl Newman*, Daniel Bejar, Kurt Dahle, Neko Case
• Written-By – Carl Newman*, Daniel Bejar

Notes

Taken from booklet:
"(...) It started off in Darryl Neudorf's Miller Block studio, where some of the drum tracks were recorded, and it was finished by our man John Collins at Rodney Graham's place. Somewhere in there Dave Carswell helped with the production, too. Mastering was done by Todd Simko, at Chateau Shag. (...) All the songs were written by Carl of Dan. Fisher Rose drummed on 4 of 'em, guess which ones. Kurt Dahle drummed on the rest (...). Davidian Chorley played saxophone on The Mary Martin Show and The Body Says No. Blaine Thurier played a bunch of keyboards. John Collins produced, engineered, played bass, and several other instruments. Dan Bejar and Carl Newman played a bunch of instruments, it's hard to remember who played what, it was all a blaze of pipe organ, wurlitzer, mini korg, and what have you. Carl, Dan, Kurt, and Neko Case sang in various lead and background vocal capacities. The end vocals on Breakin' The Law were sung by the Camp Northstar kids' chorus. (...) All this artwork layout was done by Randy Iwata. The photos were taken by Shannon Oksanen, (...)."

Booklet doesn't give the lyrics, but the key sentence for each song.

©℗ 2003 Matador Records

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 7 44861 05402 3
• Matrix / Runout: wea mfg. OLYPHANT X19823 LN OLE 540-2 01 M1S1
• Mastering SID Code: ifpi L902
• Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U6D

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
MRD-043	The New Pornographers	Mass Romantic ‎(CD, Album, Dig)	Mint Records	MRD-043	Canada	2000
OLE 540-1	The New Pornographers	Mass Romantic ‎(LP, Album, 180)	Matador	OLE 540-1	US	2003
OLE 540-2	The New Pornographers	Mass Romantic ‎(CD, Album)	Matador	OLE 540-2	UK	2002
OLE 540-2v	The New Pornographers	Mass Romantic ‎(CD, Album, Promo)	Matador	OLE 540-2v	UK	Unknown
OLE 540-2	The New Pornographers	Mass Romantic ‎(CD, Album, RP)	Matador	OLE 540-2	US	Unknown