:Saddle Creek 50

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| type = compilation

| artist = Various artists

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| released = 2003

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| genre = Rock

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| label = Saddle Creek Records

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Saddle Creek 50 is a compilation by Saddle Creek Records in honor of being the label's 50th album release. It was released in 2003 and features one album track and one non-album track by each of the bands then recording for the label.

Track listing

=CD version=

==Disc 1==

  1. The Faint – "Worked Up So Sexual" from Blank-Wave Arcade
  2. The Faint – "Take Me to the Hospital"
  3. Now It's Overhead – "Wonderful Scar" from their self-titled
  4. Now It's Overhead – "Dark Cycle"
  5. Rilo Kiley – "With Arms Outstretched" from The Execution of all Things
  6. Rilo Kiley – "Jenny, You’re Barely Alive"
  7. Cursive – "The Martyr" from Cursive's Domestica
  8. Cursive – "Nonsense"
  9. Son, Ambulance – "A Book Laid on Its Binding" from Euphemystic
  10. Son, Ambulance – "The Moral of Rosa, Parolee"

Enhanced CD content: All 45 of Saddle Creek's online weekly movies from 2002.

==Disc 2==

  1. Desaparecidos – "Man and Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)" from Read Music/Speak Spanish
  2. Desaparecidos – "Popn' Off at the F"
  3. The Good Life – "I am an Island" from Black Out
  4. The Good Life – "Aftercrash"
  5. Azure Ray – "November" from the November EP
  6. Azure Ray – "Beautiful Things Can Come From the Dark"
  7. Sorry About Dresden – "Sick and Soar" from Let It Rest
  8. Sorry About Dresden – "People Have Parties"
  9. Mayday – "Captain" from Old Blood
  10. Mayday – "Pond Love"
  11. Bright Eyes – "Something Vague" from Fevers and Mirrors
  12. Bright Eyes – "One Foot In Front of the Other"

=LP version=

  • Note: Vinyl version only has the 11 new songs – it does not contain the 11 previously released tracks.

==Side 1==

  1. The Faint – "Take Me to the Hospital"
  2. Now It's Overhead – "Dark Cycle"
  3. Rilo Kiley – "Jenny, You’re Barely Alive"
  4. Cursive – "Nonsense"
  5. Son, Ambulance – "The Moral of Rosa, Parolee"

==Side 2==

  1. Desaparecidos – "Popn' Off at the F"
  2. The Good Life – "Aftercrash"
  3. Azure Ray – "Beautiful Things Can Come From the Dark"
  4. Sorry About Dresden – "People Have Parties"
  5. Mayday – "Pond Love"
  6. Bright Eyes – "One Foot In Front of the Other"

See also

References

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