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Release Date
1 January 2005
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Length
14 tracks
Oh No is the second album by Chicago rock quartet OK Go. It was released 30 August 2005. The album was recorded in late 2004 with producer Tore Johansson in Malmö, Sweden. As of January 12, 2007, the album has sold 198,045 units.
After the band's performance at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, their album moved up to #2 on the iTunes Music Store album sales charts (as of September 3, 2006). Their album sold 8,250 units in the following week, a 95% increase over the prior week, rocketing from #87 to #69 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
On November 7th, 2006, OK Go released a deluxe limited edition CD/DVD of the album. The DVD contains their videos (dancing and playing instruments), a video from 180 fans doing the A Million Ways dance for a YouTube contest, previously unseen footage, and a behind-the-scenes look of their treadmill rehearsals for the video and for the VMA's. The band's cheaply-produced yet elaborately choreographed videos for Here It Goes Again and A Million Ways have become YouTube staples - particularly the video for the former song, featuring the band dancing on treadmills - and have done much to propel the songs, the album, and the band.
9027 Km, which is not listed on the album sleeve, is a 35-minute track of singer Damian Kulash's girlfriend sleeping, included on the US version of the album. He says there is good reason for it, but as of now, fans do not know why, except for a discovery by the user "sherib" on the official OK GO forums, which showed that the distance between Los Angeles, California and Malmö, Sweden was 9027 kilometres. It has been rumored that the track was added to pad out the CD so that their label could not use the extra space to add DRM.
Do What You Want was featured on the soundtrack of the video games Burnout Revenge and NHL 06 as well as on many 2006 JC Penney commercials. It's also one of the playable tracks in Guitar Hero: On Tour. Here It Goes Again was included on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions of the video game NHL 07 and SSX on Tour (the GameCube version also featured the song). It is also featured in the background of a Nike + iPod commercial, as well as various commercials for the movie Shrek The Third. In addition, it is featured in the music video game Rock Band.
The album title "Oh No" can be heard in the background in the songs Oh Lately It's So Quiet and Here It Goes Again.
Invincible was featured on the soundtrack for the movie She's the Man and was also used during the 2006 NCAA Final Four.
A Good Idea at the Time is a line-for-line response to The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil.
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