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The Opposite Is Also True

album by Mike Feuerstack

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ7755222 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Opposite is Also True is an album by the artist Snailhouse. It was released in 2001 on the label The Snailhouse Institute For The Recording Arts, and was distributed by Scratch Records. It was recorded between 2000 and 2001 at Little Bullhorn Productions, in Ottawa. It was mastered at SNB. It is a 2-disc album, with each album having different variations of the same songs.

Critical reception

AllMusic called the album "very highbrow in its pop sensibilities and general college rock aura." Exclaim! wrote that "the greatest testament to Feuerstack's accomplishment here is how rarely the urge strikes to engage in a track by track analysis - each 30-minute album works entirely on its own."

Track listing

Disc one

Twenty One Years – 4:08

A Matter Of Time – 2:13

Daylight – 4:36

Dead Air – 3:18

Postcards And Movie Stills – 3:02

Everything Is Natural – 5:34

Three Nights – 4:09

Do You Want To Talk All Night? – 2:33

Repetition – 3:01

Disc two

Twenty One Years – 4:22

A Matter Of Time – 2:30

Daylight – 4:35

Dead Air – 3:09

Postcards And Movie Stills – 3:31

Everything Is Natural – 4:10

Three Nights – 4:36

Do You Want To Talk All Night? – 2:33

Repetition – 2:05

Credits

Michael Feuerstack: vocals, guitar, percussion, drums on #11. Julie Doiron: vocals. Dave Draves: piano, organ, vocals, percussion, bass on #11.

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“The Opposite Is Also True” enters the record as album by Mike Feuerstack. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Opposite, True and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Opposite, True and album.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7755222. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Opposite Is Also True” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.