Eastwood is British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 Synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 band, Cuban Boys

Cuban Boys

The Cuban Boys are a British band and production team, currently composed of Skreen B and Ricardo Autobahn; the band formerly also included B.L. Underwood and Jenny McLaren . Their music is characterised by fast electronic beats, heavy reliance upon samples and the repetition of the words "The...

' first and only major label album. It was released in 2000, after some delay, following the band's only UK hit single, "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia

Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia

"Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia" is a song by the Cuban Boys. The song consists almost in its entirety of a sampled loop from "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller which was featured in the Disney movie Robin Hood...

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The album is named after Steve Eastwood, music review editor at Teletext

Teletext Ltd.

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 who had given the band early coverage and features sleeve-notes by John Peel

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...

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Critical reception

Eastwood received a very poor review in the NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

—who labelled the album "a 19-track procession of pretend disco and A-level Aqua novelty wank"—and sold poorly.

Track listing

1. ""
2. "Kenny"
3. "I Like Everybody"
4. "Inertia Kicks"
5. "Patsy Prozac"
6. "Automation and On"
7. "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia
   Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia
   "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia" is a song by the Cuban Boys. The song consists almost in its entirety of a sampled loop from "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller which was featured in the Disney movie Robin Hood...
   
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8. "Skinhead Cowgirls"
9. "Czar Zoo"
10. "The Heel"
11. "My Clone"
12. "Self Esteem" (cover of the Offspring
    The Offspring
    The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984. Known as Manic Subsidal until 1986, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, lead guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman, bassist Greg K. and drummer Pete Parada...
    
     song)
13. "Hooked On Cuban Boys"
14. "Stardust Part 3 (Ariana in Space)"
15. "Finale"

The Secret Discotheque For The Subterraneans bonus tracks

1. "Inertia Kicks (Fuchisarama Mix)"
2. "How To Survive In The Atomic Age"
3. "My Clone (Pink)"
4. "Inertia Kicks (Donkeyslap Mix)"

Singles and chart positions

Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia reached number 4 on the UK Singles chart on 25 December 1999. It was also number 1 in John Peel's Festive Fifty

Festive Fifty

The Festive Fifty was originally an annual list of the year's fifty best songs compiled at the end of the year and voted for by listeners to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show...

 in 1999. "Kenny" had previously been released in a different version called "Oh My God They Killed Kenny" and failed to chart, although it reached number 6 in the 1998 Festive Fifty. Following the band's split from EMI, "Inertia Kicks" was released as a self-published limited edition single in a five track format ineligible for inclusion in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	2000	EMI EMI The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...	Compact disk	528 4702