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- The band's cheaply-produced yet elaborately choreographed videos for "Here It Goes Again" and "A Million Ways" have become YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
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 sherib on the official OK Go forums, which showed that the distance between Los Angeles, California and Malmö, Sweden was 9027 kilometers (km). 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 DRMDigital rights managementDigital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...
. - "Do What You Want" was featured on the soundtrack of the video games Burnout RevengeBurnout RevengeBurnout Revenge is the fourth video game in the Burnout series of racing games, released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox on September 13, 2005 and Xbox 360 on March 7, 2006, alongside the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS title Burnout Legends....
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, as well as on many 2006 JC Penney commercials. It's also one of the playable tracks in Guitar Hero: On TourGuitar Hero: On Tour seriesGuitar Hero: On Tour is a series of music video games based on the Guitar Hero series for the Nintendo DS handheld game system. The series is developed by Vicarious Visions and distributed by RedOctane and Activision...
. - The album title, Oh No, can be heard in the background in the songs "Oh Lately It's So Quiet." It sounds as if you can hear it in the background of "Here It Goes Again" but that is actually Andy Duncan and Tim Nordwind saying "Hey Now"
- "Invincible" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie She's the ManShe's the ManShe's the Man is a 2006 American romantic comedy film directed by Andy Fickman, based on Twelfth Night, a play by William Shakespeare. The film stars Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey and Vinnie Jones....
and was also used during the 2006 NCAA Final FourNCAA Men's Division I Basketball ChampionshipThe NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...
. - "Here It Goes Again" was included on the PlayStation 2PlayStation 2The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
and XboxXboxThe Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console...
versions of the video game NHL 07NHL 07NHL 07 is an ice hockey video game. It was released on September 12, 2006, the successor to NHL 06. The game improved the series' gameplay with more realistic features, such as stickhandling and a wider variety of controller schemes...
and SSX on TourSSX on TourSSX on Tour is a skiing and snowboarding game, the fourth title in the SSX series of video games for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, PSP and Xbox. The game was developed under the working title SSX 4. It was released in North America on October 11, 2005, In the PAL region on October 21, 2005 and in...
(the GameCube version also featured the song). It is also featured in the background of a NikeNike, Inc.Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
+ iPodIPodiPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
commercial, as well as various commercials for the movie Shrek The ThirdShrek the ThirdShrek the Third is a 2007 American animated film, and the third film in the Shrek series. It was produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg for DreamWorks Animation, and is distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was released in U.S. theaters on May 18, 2007...
. In addition, it is featured in the music video gameMusic video gameA music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...
Rock Band and is available as downloadable content for Guitar HeroGuitar HeroGuitar Hero is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the first entry in the Guitar Hero series. Guitar Hero was released on November 8, 2005 in North America, April 7, 2006 in Europe and June 15, 2006 in...
. - "Here It Goes Again" was also featured in the episode of ScrubsScrubs (TV series)Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...
"My Mirror Image" (season 6, episode 1). - "A Good Idea at the Time" is a line-for-line response to The Rolling StonesThe Rolling StonesThe Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
' "Sympathy for the DevilSympathy for the Devil"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by The Rolling Stones which first appeared as the opening track on the band's 1968 album Beggars Banquet. It was written by Mick Jagger credited to Jagger/Richards...
". - "A Good Idea at the Time" was also featured on Royal PainsRoyal PainsRoyal Pains is a USA Network television series that premiered on June 4, 2009, starring Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Flint and Reshma Shetty. The series is based in part on actual concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies...
in the episode But There's A Catch .
Band lineup
- Damian Kulash Jr.: vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion
- Timothy Norwind: bass, vocals
- Dan Konopka: drums
- Andy DuncanAndy Duncan (musician)Andy Scott Duncan Born was a founding member of the Chicago band OK Go, playing lead guitar and keyboards. He appears on their first two albums, the eponymous OK Go and its follow-up album Oh No...
: guitar, piano, keyboards, vibraphoneVibraphoneThe vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....
, vocals
Additional personnel
- Jens Lingård – trombone on "A Good Idea at the Time" and "No Sign of Life"
- Peter Lingård – trumpet on "A Good Idea at the Time" and "No Sign of Life"
- Sven AnderssonSven AnderssonSven Andersson is a retired Swedish football goalkeeper. Born in Strömstad near the Norwegian border, he began his professional career in Örgryte IS, a club with which he won the Allsvenskan championship in 1985...
– trombone on "A Good Idea at the Time" and "No Sign of Life" - Filip Runesson – viola on "The House Wins"
- Rasmus Kihlberg – second drummer on "It's a Disaster", "Crash the Party" and "The House Wins"
- The Mopeds – actors on "Invincible" (portrayed the fictitious vocal group "The Space Odyssey Counting Gang" on the song)
- Flor Serna – keyboard player on "It's a Disaster"
- Hannah Montoya – hardcore drummer on "A Good Idea at the Time"
Production credits
- Tore Johansson – producer/engineer/mixing engineer on "A Good Idea at the Time", "Oh Lately It's So Quiet", "It's a Disaster", "A Million Ways", "No Sign of Life", "Let It Rain", "Maybe, This Time" and "The House Wins"
- Jens Lingård – assistant producer/engineer
- David Carlsson – engineer
- Peter Lingård – engineer
- Dave SardyDave SardyDavid Sardy is a Brooklyn born-and-raised composer, musician, songwriter, and record producer- Biography :...
– mixing engineer on "Invincible", "Do What You Want", "Here It Goes Again", "Crash the Party" and "Television, Television" - Ken Slutier – second unitSecond unitIn film, the second unit is a team that shoots subsidiary footage for a motion picture. Its work is distinct from that of the first unit, which shoots all scenes involving principal actors...
producer - Eric Drew FeldmanEric Drew FeldmanEric Drew Feldman is an American keyboard and bass guitar player. Feldman has worked with Captain Beefheart, Fear, Snakefinger, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Pixies, dEUS, Katell Keineg, Frank Black, The Polyphonic Spree, Tripping Daisy, Reid Paley, Charlotte Hatherley, Custard, and PJ Harvey.He was...
– second unit 1st assistant producer - Howard Willing – second unit 2nd assistant producer/A&R liaison for Capitol Records
- Robert Vosgien – mastering engineer
- Mary Fagot – art direction
- Damian Kulash, Jr. – design
- Sunja Park – layout
- Dusan Reljin – photography
- Tom Fowlks – additional photography