''The Cold Nose'' is the debut album by

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. It has been reissued twice. It was originally released in the US as The Whitey On The Moon UK LP on Isota Records on October 21, 2003, and reissued in the UK as The Cold Nose on

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on January 8, 2008. The American Dust October 7, 2008 US reissue contains four bonus tracks. The album is sample-heavy and multilayered. The second track, "Sailing By Night," contains a sample of the song "Meetings Along The Edge" from the

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and

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project '' Passages'', as well as a sample from the

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track, Rydeen. The third track "Noam Chomsky Spring Break 2002" samples the

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song "Prisoners". It also samples Astor Piazzolla's composition "Oblivion" in the opening and closing sequences. The track "We Have to Respect Each Other" samples

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, the human horn, while the opening to "Forty Dollar Rug" samples "Il Teatrino Delle Suore" from

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's soundtrack to

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. The track "Gravity's Greatest Victory/Rex Snorted Cocaine" contains a sample of the

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composition "The Little People Work" from the soundtrack to Star Wars: A New Hope.

Track listing

#"On Glaze" - 1:51 #"Sailing by Night" - 4:35 #"Noam Chomsky Spring Break 2002" - 3:15 #"The Piano in the Bathtub" - 4:23 #"Romo-Goth" - 2:40 #"Gravity's Greatest Victory/Rex Snorted Coke" - 2:29 #"Origin of Love" - 2:00 #"Family Romance" - 4:19 #"Forty Dollar Rug" - 3:15 #"We Have to Respect Each Other" - 0:38 #"The Curious Butterfly Realizes He Is Beautiful" - 2:53 #"The Horse You Ride" - 4:20 #"Ghost in Summer Clothes" - 3:55 #: ''bonus tracks on American Dust reissue'' #"Dinner for Two" - 2:05 #"Day School/Rooster" - 3:50 #"Mining for Gold/Payoff" - 2:31 #"Ghost in Summer Clothes (demo)" - 4:15

References

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