- published: 13 Aug 2011
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Ratatat is Ratatat's 2004 self-titled debut album. It was recorded between July 2001 and May 2003 in Mast's Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment and mixed in June 2003 before its release in 2004.
The album is essentially instrumental, although it has occasional voice excerpts (referred to in the liner notes as "spoken interludes") by local MC and rapper Young Churf. The track "Spanish Armada" contains a French horn played by Michal Emanovsky. Other tracks of note are "Germany to Germany", later released as a single; and "Cherry", a homage to Ratatat's original name.
The most well known song on the album is "Seventeen Years". It was featured in a television advertisement titled "Accessorize" for the Hummer H2 in 2004 on the British television show Soccer AM as the original background music for The Crossbar Challenge segment; and in Level One Productions's ski movie Shanghai Six. It was also played during Rob's party in the 2008 monster movie Cloverfield. The song "Bustelo" was used in several Jaguar commercials in mid-2006.
Seventeen may refer to:
Seventeen or 17 may also refer to:
From the little you write me
I guess that you're doin' fine
I suppose you're too busy
To remember I'm here doin' time
I doubt if you're lonely
I doubt if you've cried any tears
I doubt if you do any thinkin' about me
While I'm doin' seventeen years
If you could imagine some things
That I've had to go through
Perhaps you'd remember
I'm doin' them all just for you
But you don't see the bars
You can't hear that big iron gate
For you'd never forget that
You'd never regret that
I'm here doin' time for your sake
You know I love you
And that's why I'll never reveal
The reason I'm stuck here
You know that my lips are sealed
I doubt if you're lonely
I doubt if you've cried any tears
I doubt if you do any thinkin' about me
While I'm doin' seventeen years
I doubt if you do any thinkin' about me
While I'm doin' seventeen years