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Feels Like Breakin' Shit

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Feels Like Breakin' Shit
Fan cover art
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1997
Recorded1994–1996
GenreAlternative rock
Length50:21
LabelSpongebath Records
DreamWorks Records
ProducerMatt Mahaffey
Todd Kinnon
Self chronology
The Half-Baked Serenade
(1997)
Feels Like Breakin' Shit
(1997)
Brunch
(1999)

Feels Like Breakin' Shit, or Self...Feels Like Breakin' Shit, is the third studio album by alternative pop/rock band Self, which was released for free via the internet.

Its 17 previously unreleased tracks include covers of Prince's "Let's Pretend We're Married", Suzanne Vega's "Fat Man and Dancing Girl", and Tommy Roe's "Dizzy". "Moronic" parodies Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," and "Titanic" parodies the Pixies' "Gigantic."

The album was composed of leftover songs from Self's previous two albums, Subliminal Plastic Motives and The Half-Baked Serenade, and was originally given to friends and family members of the band. Matt has said in interviews that he made many of these songs as a joke and never intended to release them, but when a record executive heard the songs he deemed it worthy of an internet release. There were two versions of the album: one released on the Spongebath Records website and one on the DreamWorks Records website. The DreamWorks version included "Overpopulation" as the 9th track, with "Moronic" appearing on the Spongebath version. Fans were encouraged to make their own artwork for the album, as there was no artwork included with the original digital files, so several different versions of the cover exist online.

Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by Self

No.TitleLength
1."Having Dinner With The Funk"1:13
2."Wide Awake at 7"4:08
3."Let's Pretend We're Married" (Prince cover)3:37
4."Breakdancers Reunion"3:20
5."Pumpkinhead"1:59
6."Glued to the Girl"3:42
7."Kodak Moment"2:19
8."Hey, Deceiver"3:09
9."Moronic" (Parody of Alanis Morissette's "Ironic")2:49
10."Titanic" (Parody of Pixies' "Gigantic" and interpolates Weezer's "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here")3:04
11."Binocular"2:00
12."Fat Man and Dancing Girl" (Suzanne Vega cover)2:16
13."Dog You Are"2:57
14."Love Interest"2:10
15."Hey, Lou" (Written by Sam Baker)4:18
16."Dizzy" (Tommy Roe cover)3:38
17."Life Could Be Swell"3:19
Total length:50:21
  • "Overpopulation" (2:15) appears on the DreamWorks version of the album in place of "Moronic"