Track listing

1. "No One Wins the War" - 3.41
2. "Horror Show" - 2.58
3. "Stuck in My Throat
   Stuck in My Throat
   "Stuck in My Throat" is the fourth single by Surrey-based rock band Reuben, and the first to be taken from the album Racecar Is Racecar Backwards. It was recorded at Stakeout Studios in Chobham where the band recorded the album with Jason Wilcock. It was released in October 2003 on the Integrity...
   
   " - 3.27
4. "Oh the Shame" - 2.09
5. "Fall of the Bastille" - 4.09
6. "Freddy Kreuger" - 2.28
7. "Tonight My Wife Is Your Wife" - 3.07
8. "Eating Only Apples" - 2.03
9. "Our Song" 1.56
10. "Let’s Stop Hanging Out" - 2.54
11. "Missing Fingers" 4.00
12. "Song for Saturday" - 2.55
13. "Moving to Blackwater
    Moving to Blackwater
    "Moving to Blackwater" is the sixth single by Surrey-based rock band Reuben, and the third single taken from their debut album, Racecar Is Racecar Backwards. It was released in August 2004, and was also the first single that Reuben had ever released in the wake of an album...
    
    " - 2.49
14. "Wrong and Sorry" - 3.21
15. "Parties Break Hearts" - 2.34
16. "Dusk" 3.55

Personnel

• Jamie Lenman - Guitars, vocals, piano
• Jon Pearce - Bass, vocals
• Guy Davis - Drums

Additional musicians

• Nic Slack - Piano on 'No-One Wins the War'
• Neil Lancaster - 7-String guitar on 'Moving to Blackwater' and 'Freddy Kreuger'
• The Galaxy Quartet - Strings

Album

Singles

Song For Saturday

• The main riff was made up on the spot by Jamie when the band's manager asked to hear their new song in soundcheck. The new song they were supposed to play was Eating Only Apples, but their manager was disappointed that the joke riff wasn't part of it.

Eating Only Apples

• Before making an appearance on this album, this song was first a b-side on the band's debut single, Scared of the Police
  Scared of the Police
  "Scared of the Police" is the debut single by Surrey-based rock band Reuben. It was recorded in December 2001 at EMI studios in London with Idlewild/80's Matchbox producer Paul Tipler, and was the first recording to be released with Guy Davis on drums...
  
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• Originally called 'Tonight My Wife Is Your Wife', but Andy Ross from Food records was so upset when the name of the song was changed to something more relevant to the subject matter, the band promised to call another song 'Tonight...'

Stuck in My Throat

• The version of this song that appears on the album was re-recorded with the rest of the tracks after the single version was finished and before work on the album started, in order to meet the release deadline imposed by Integrity records.
• Both the single and album version are exactly the same tempo and can be played in perfect unison side by side.

Lyrics

• The line 'party hardy marty' in 'Parties Break Hearts' was lifted from the last scene in the film Scrooged
  Scrooged
  Scrooged is a 1988 American comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman. The screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue...
  
  , starring Bill Murray
  Bill Murray
  William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films, including Caddyshack , Ghostbusters , and...
  
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• Although the lyrics hadn't been finalised in early performances, the 'Hell Is for Heroes
  Hell Is For Heroes (band)
  Hell Is for Heroes was an English post-hardcore band from London. Founder members Will McGonagle and Joe Birch were joined by James Findlay, Tom O'Donoghue and later Justin Schlosberg...
  
  ' line in 'No One Wins the War' was actually written a few weeks before the two bands toured together. The line was subsequently changed to something new about Hell Is For Heroes on most nights of the tour, and in fact most nights after that tour.

Cut songs

• Two tracks that were meant to be recorded for the album but were not completed after the drums and bass were laid down were 'Approaching By Stealth' and a new version of 'Alpha Signal Seven'. The tracks were later released on Reuben's compilation album "We Should Have Gone to University"
• Also lost in the recording process was a potential b-side, provisionally entitled 'Hell', which was produced by slowing down the song 'Oh The Shame' to half speed from the string section onwards to 'hilarious' effects.