I'm working on some data analysis because that is how I relax and I've noticed that almost every single studio album by the Mountain Goats has the wrong duration listed on Wikipedia.
All Hail West Texas says in the summary that it's 42:02 long, then lists 14 songs that total up to 43:07, before listing a total length of 43:13. It's got two lengths listed, and both are wrong!
Tallahassee is either 44:35 or 44:34 depending on where on the wikipedia page you look, but, no. It's actually 44:28, which you can see if you just total up the listed track times.
Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking "he doesn't know what I'm thinking"
But you're also thinking "Maybe those total lengths account for brief pauses in the album that aren't technically part of the runtime of any song" or something like that.
But then why does Full Force Galesburg list 16 tracks with their correct runtimes, the total time of which adds up to 41:06, but then lists the total length as 40:34. Is the album 32 seconds shorter than it's component parts?
Anyway. I'm going to go back to my data collection and, apparently, editing wikipedia.
