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Release Date
9 May 2009
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Length
25 tracks
Self-released on April 3rd, 2009
All songs were written between July 2005 and December 2006 except for Erin Battle, written in February of 2007.
Even though Bubblegum Octopus material was continuously written after the album was initially composed and the demo versions of the songs were recorded, the album didn't have a finalized version until the end of 2008.
The CD was recorded as a gift to the fans who had stuck with the project in spite of previously very infrequent shows and releases.
Often, this album is mis-tagged as 8-Legged Dance Moves, but the official, canonical title is, in fact, The Album Formerly Known As "8-Legged Dance Moves"
As a result, if you have the album tagged as the former, last.fm will display the artwork for the demo, which had the shorter name.
The album is named for this exact type of mistake made as the result of music pirating.
In 2007, people began posting files to P2P websites with names like "8-Legged Dance Moves FULL ALBUM!"
In an attempt to distinguish this album from both the demo and the misconception, the album was named The Album Formerly Known As "8-Legged Dance Moves" (a name suggested by Adam Cooley of Scissor Shock and Robe. notoriety.)
Often misconstrued as being predominantly meaningless, the album details both extremely important and absolutely petty events that stuck out during the passage of time between the album's start and finish, love, environmental issues, religion, sexuality, human nature, love for animals, and the point of existence through a mixture of misleading metaphors, absurd allegories, and extremely direct references.
In spite of this, there are plenty of moments that are indeed complete fantasy and silliness that reference little more than themselves and the imagination they came from.
This album also contains the only references made to real world protoculture in a Bubblegum Octopus song, as Erin Battle and The Not-So-Yummy Pie of Sadness both discuss video games by name.
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