F♯ A♯ ∞

F♯ A♯ ∞
Studio album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Released	August 14, 1997
Recorded	May 1997 at Hotel2Tango in Montreal, Quebec
Genre	Post rock, experimental rock
Length	38:22 (vinyl) 63:27 (CD)
Label	Constellation, Kranky
Producer	Don Wilkie, Ian Ilavsky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Godspeed You! Black Emperor chronology
All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling (1994)	F♯ A♯ ∞ (1997)	Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada (1999)

F♯ A♯ ∞ (pronounced "F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity") is the debut studio album, and the second studio release, by the Canadian experimental band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It was released on vinyl on August 14, 1997 by Constellation Records.

Regardless of the breakdown by title, the album is cut into movements. A remastered version was released on June 8, 1998 this time on CD by Kranky. This new edition contains two new compositions (one of which is hidden) and some passages from the old edition have been removed.

 The first edition of 1997 was limited to 500 copies and the packaging was handmade. It was made up of various objects including photos, posters, and a Canadian penny run over by a train.

 F♯ and A♯ are the sounds with which each side of the vinyl begins respectively;  the infinite symbol refers to the string loop that ends the album ("string loop manufactured during downpour").

 Part of the song "East Hastings" was used by Danny Boyle in the film 28 Days Later. However, the song does not appear in the film's soundtrack for copyright reasons.

Track listing

Vinyl edition

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nervous, Sad, Poor" "I. The Dead Flag Blues (Intro)" "II. Slow Moving Trains" "III. The Cowboy…" "IV. Drugs in Tokyo" "V. The Dead Flag Blues (Outro) "VI. Untitled"	20:43 6:09 3:23 4:16 3:29 1:52 1:34

Side two

No.	Title	Length
2.	"Bleak, Uncertain, Unfaithful" "I. …Nothing's Alrite in Our Life… / The Dead Flag Blues (Reprise)" "II. The Sad Mafioso" "III. Kicking Horse on Brokenhill" "IV. String Loop Manufactured During Downpour…"	17:36 2:00 5:33 5:37 4:26

• Technically, due to the locked groove at the end of "Bleak, Uncertain, Unfaithful", it has an infinite running time. The ending is restored on the CD edition and with the locked groove removed, it is the normal length.

CD edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Dead Flag Blues" "I. The Dead Flag Blues (Intro)" "II. Slow Moving Trains / The Cowboy…" "III. The Dead Flag Blues (Outro)"	16:27 6:37 7:50 2:00
2.	"East Hastings" "I. …Nothing's Alrite in Our Life… / The Dead Flag Blues (Reprise)" "II. The Sad Mafioso…" "III. Drugs in Tokyo / Black Helicopter"	18:00 1:35 10:44 5:41
3.	"Providence" "I. Divorce & Fever…" "II. Dead Metheny…" "III. Kicking Horse on Brokenhill" "IV. Manufactured During Downpour…" "V. Silence" "VI. J.L.H. Outro (hidden track)"	29:02 2:45 8:07 5:53 4:37 3:30 4:08