Straight Outta Lynwood

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Straight Outta Lynwood

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Hey Bermuda,
I wasn't really around in 2006, so hopefully this isn't something that has already been addressed, but I was looking over the recording dates page and saw that Do I Creep You Out was recorded in the same session as White & Nerdy. Being that You're Pitiful was going to be the lead single for the album originally, was Straight Outta Lynwood originally going to be an 11 track album? It's interesting for me to think about, as the original song was also released in June 2006, far too late for it to even be a blip on Al's radar when he thought the album was going to hit shelves that very same month.
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Re: Straight Outta Lynwood

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If I recall correctly, Jon explained at Al Fest that originally "Trapped In The Drive Thru" was going to take up two songs' worth of royalties and so SOL was going to be an 11-track album. Then at the last minute they were able to get it worked out to be at the normal rate, and they had to go back into the studio anyway to record White & Nerdy so Al wrote "Do I Creep You Out" to record at the same session because they suddenly had the space (and budget) to add a 12th track.
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