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Where to start with Squirrel Nut Zippers
Start with The Interlocutor — Hot, 1996. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 25 Squirrel Nut Zippers tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 25 Squirrel Nut Zippers tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 25 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 13 of the 25 tracks come from Hot alone.
The years need a caveat: 25 of 25 dated tracks land in the 1990s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under jazz; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The energy knob swings 48 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
The Interlocutor — Hot, 1996. Of the 25 Squirrel Nut Zippers tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
Twilight — Hot, 1996. The lowest energy reading of any Squirrel Nut Zippers track in the room (30 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
Put a Lid on It — Hot, 1996. The highest energy reading here, at 78 out of 100 — a 48-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Squirrel Nut Zippers sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Squirrel Nut Zippers's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Hot | 1996 | 13 |
| Perennial Favorites | 1998 | 12 |
Every Squirrel Nut Zippers track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Bad Businessman | Hot | 1996 |
| Blue Angel | Hot | 1996 |
| Flight of the Passing Fancy | Hot | 1996 |
| Got My Own Thing Now | Hot | 1996 |
| Hell | Hot | 1996 |
| It Ain't You | Hot | 1996 |
| Meant to Be | Hot | 1996 |
| Memphis Exorcism | Hot | 1996 |
| Prince Nez | Hot | 1996 |
| Put a Lid on It | Hot | 1996 |
| The Interlocutor | Hot | 1996 |
| The Puffer | Hot | 1996 |
| Twilight | Hot | 1996 |
| Evening At Lafitte's | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| Ghost Of Stephen Foster | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| It's Over | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| Low Down Man | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| My Drag | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| Pallin' With Al | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| Soon | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| Suits Are Picking Up The Bill | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| That Fascinating Thing | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| The Kraken | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
| Trou Macacq | Perennial Favorites | 1998 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Squirrel Nut Zippers's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Medeski Martin & Wood — jazz, 15 tracks
- Where to start with Weather Report — jazz, 14 tracks
- Where to start with Sun Ra — jazz, 53 tracks
What the open databases say
This room has no MusicBrainz record for Squirrel Nut Zippers, so there are no external facts to report here — only what is in the collection itself.
Questions
How many Squirrel Nut Zippers tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 25, across 2 albums. 25 of them carry a date, running from 1996 to 1998. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 25 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 25 of these 25 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.