Half the World Is Watching Me is the second album by Danish alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Mew

Mew (band)

Mew is a Danish alternative music band consisting of Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, and Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen. Bassist Johan Wohlert was also a founding member of the band, but left in 2006...

, released on their own record label Evil Office in 2000. The album was originally printed in about only 5,000 copies, but has been reissued twice for wider distribution. The most recent dates to 6 August 2007 and came with a nine-track bonus disc. The original release included a hidden track, "Ending" that is unique to this release.

Original release

0. "Ending" – 2:11
1. "Am I Wry? No" – 4:43
2. "Mica" – 2:58
3. "Saliva" – 4:08
4. "King Christian" – 4:25
5. "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" – 4:22
6. "156" – 4:48
7. "Symmetry" – 5:18
8. "Comforting Sounds" – 8:46

To find the hidden track "Ending", which is identified by the purple circle at the center of the disc, start the opening track "Am I Wry? No" and rewind past 0:00.

Bonus tracks on first reissue

9. "She Came Home for Christmas
   She Came Home For Christmas
   She Came Home for Christmas is the second single by Danish alternative rock band Mew. The song was released after "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi ". The song originally appeared on the band's debut album A Triumph for Man in 1997, and was later included on Frengers, a compilation album of sorts, in...
   
   " – 4:01
10. "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" – 2:01

This version did not include the hidden track "Ending", but added 2 bonus tracks (which are versions unique to this record). It is identifiable by a slightly different cover where the text has a white border, and an expanded booklet with full-page photographs of the band members. The disc is reflective, not totally white like the original release.

2007 reissue bonus disc

1. "Half The World Is Watching Me" (studio outtake) – 3:05
2. "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" (live 2001) – 3:19
3. "Mica" (live 2001) – 3:42
4. "Wheels Over Me" (live 2001) – 2:43
5. "Wherever" (live 2001) – 5:32
6. "156" (Cubase demo) – 5:22
7. "Quietly" (demo) – 3:29
8. "Comforting Sounds (Do I Look Puerto Rican?)" (demo) – 7:49