- If then else
Infobox Album |
Name = if_then_else
Type = studio
Artist = The Gathering
Released =July 25 ,2000
Recorded = January to March 2000
Genre =Progressive rock
Length = 52:46
Label = Century Media
Producer = The Gathering; co-produced by Zlaya Hadzich
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0tvsa9qgl23a link] |
Last album = "How To Measure A Planet? "
(1998)
This album = "if_then_else"
(2000)
Next album = "Black Light District"
(2002)"if_then_else" is an
album by the Dutchalternative rock band The Gathering. The album furthered the band's shift from metal to progressive/experimental rock textures. It was released inEurope in 2000 byCentury Media Records . It was recorded at the Koeienverhuurbedrijf studio inPurmerend , and at S & K Studio, inDoetinchem .Its title combines two frequently used
computer programming notations:
* Theif, then, else
conditional statement
* The use of all lowercase, underscore-separated wordsTrack listing
# "Rollercoaster" – 4:45
# "Shot to Pieces" – 4:10
# "Amity" – 5:57
# "Bad Movie Scene" – 3:49
# "Colorado Incident" – 4:53
# "Beautiful War" – 2:32
# "Analog Park" – 6:05
# "Herbal Movement" – 4:10
# "Saturnine" – 5:11
# "Morphia's Waltz" – 6:37
# "Pathfinder" – 4:38Miscellanea
*"Colorado Incident" is about a real-life experience of having to cancel a gig in Colorado due to overbooking, exhaustion and the band being sick from a cold. Fans were frustrated, and the band was later very apologetic about this "incident" [cite web
title=The colorado incident
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url=http://web.archive.org/web/20020122053002/http://www.gathering.nl/underneath/und-colorado.html
last=Rutten | first=Hans
accessdate=2008-01-23] . (It is apparently not about the 1999Columbine High School massacre , as often speculated.)
* An excerpt ofLewis Carroll 's "Alice in Wonderland " is used between "Analog Park" and "Herbal Movement".Notes
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