"Off the Record" | ||||
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Single by My Morning Jacket | ||||
from the album Z | ||||
B-side | "How Could I Know" "Chills" |
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Released | October 2005 | |||
Format | Compact Disc, 7" vinyl | |||
Recorded | 2005, Allaire Studios, Shokan, New York, United States | |||
Genre | Indie rock, reggae | |||
Length | 5:33 (album version) 3:24 (single edit) |
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Label | ATO | |||
Writer(s) | Jim James, "Two-Tone" Tommy, and Patrick Hallahan | |||
Producer(s) | John Leckie and Jim James | |||
My Morning Jacket singles chronology | ||||
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"Off the Record" is a single from Louisville, Kentucky indie rock band My Morning Jacket released in October, 2005 by ATO Records.
The music video for "Off the Record" features a school boy telling something to a young girl, who then passes the saying to another person; it eventually spreads to an office building. The people are soon arrested by the police for telling the saying.
The song "Chills" appears on the soundtrack of the television series Heroes. "Off the Record" is played at the end of the How I Met Your Mother episode "Game Night".
"Off the Record" was covered by Swedish performer Moneybrother on his 2006 album Pengabrorsan. The cover version is titled "Under Bordet", has a faster tempo, and is sung in Swedish.