The Main Menu on the disk (shown below) listed six options.
The [A] option opened a screen that listed facts about the album. The facts were:
1. Total running time is 56 minutes and 33 seconds
2. Guest musician: Bill W on "Molybdenum"
3. Metal XOR Catalog Number: MXOR-17 (Lyric code MM06-09)
4. Contains 19 tracks (15 new, 4 remakes)
5. Earliest song recorded on May 13, 1996 "Sleeping with the Fishes"
6. Latest song recorded on September 4, 1997 "Before (Again)"
7. Shortest song is "Overfed" at 1:49
8. Longest song is "Etesian Wind (Denny's Mix)" at 4:00
9. There are 8 instrumentals on the album
10. Official release date was Tuesday, September 23, 1997
11. Songs were recorded at three different locations for the album
12. Only song with non-Studio sample is "Biobot". The background clanging noise throughout the song came from the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the Wonkamobile).
13. This album was originally to be called Equation of Time Part II because most of the songs were outtakes from Equation of Time.
14. The second album title that was dropped was Equitation of Python.
15. The alternate album cover image was a cross-section of the brain
16. A video for "Molybdenum" was produced before the album was released.
17. "Prospecting Saturn" was recorded to be on a celestial album.
The [B] option listed lyrics to all the songs on the album
The [C] option listed lyrics to outtake songs that did not appear on the album ("Atlantis", "Crystal", "Little Germany", "Market Connection", "One Second", "Sepia", "The End Den", "You Took Me Down", and "Winter Song")
The [D] option was a FAQ about the disk and the album
The [E] option contained contact information
The [X] option exited the program and returned to DOS
Buried within the lyrics directory was a hidden file that contained a message from the Studio:
Also hidden on the disk was a picture labeled "Metal XOR". Could this actually be a tie-in to the upcoming project from ORC?...
No comments:
Post a Comment