Mountains of Time

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Mountains of Time
Savoy - Mountains of time.jpeg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 23, 1999
Recorded1998–99
Genre Rock
Length51:57 (original release)
48:45 (remaster) [1]
Label EMI Norsk
Producer Lauren & Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
Savoy chronology
Lackluster Me
(1997)
Mountains of Time
(1999)
Reasons to Stay Indoors
(2001)

Mountains of Time is the third album released by the band Savoy. It is the only original Savoy studio album (apart from Mary is Coming) officially released outside of Scandinavia so far, but only in central and Western Europe. There was a limited edition with a second CD called The Bovarnick Twins, which was an EP of otherwise unavailable bonus tracks. In 2008, the track "Bottomless Pit" was featured in the Moral Orel episode "Sacrifice".

Contents

The album was remastered and rereleased on CD and LP in 2017. For this, several tracks were shortened. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Man in the Park"
  2. "Star"
  3. "End of the Line"
  4. "Any Other Way"
  5. "Grind You Down"
  6. "Bottomless Pit"
  7. "Mountains"
  8. "Ocean Floor"
  9. "Everyone"
  10. "See What Becomes"
  11. "Break It Gently"
  12. "Tongue Tied"

Bonus disc

  1. "The Bovarnick Twins"
  2. "This, That, & The Other" (alternate version)
  3. "Feels Good (To Be This Way)"
  4. "Rain" (acoustic version)
  5. "Foreign Film" (rock version)

Personnel

Savoy

Additional musicians

Charts

Chart (1999)Peak
position
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [3] 1

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References

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