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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams
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978754075639 is the Universal Product Code (UPC barcode) for the release “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” by Douglas Adams, released 2002-11-11. UPCs are unique numeric identifiers assigned by distributors to identify a music release — album, EP, or single — across every digital and physical retail platform. This release contains 111 tracks, each with its own ISRC.
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Track List (111)
| # | Track Title | Artist(s) | ISWC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prologue: “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for…” / Chapter 1: “The story so far.” | — | ||
| 2 | Chapter 1 (continued): “Tricia McMillian — or Trillian — had skipped the planet six months earlier…” / Chapter 2: “Like all Vogon ships it looked as if it had been not so much designed as congealed.” | — | ||
| 3 | Chapter 2 (continued): “It has been said that Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption…” | — | ||
| 4 | Chapter 2 (continued): “He toyed with this thought a little before reluctantly dismissing it.” | — | ||
| 5 | Chapter 2 (continued): “When put to the test, however, it invariably produced a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.” | — | ||
| 6 | Chapter 2 (continued): “‘I’m going to need some help with this one,’ said the machine tersely.” / Chapter 3: “‘Does anyone have a kettle?’ Arthur asked…” | — | ||
| 7 | Chapter 3 (continued): “He started to speak, and stopped.” | — | ||
| 8 | Chapter 3 (continued): “Quite how Zaphod Beeblebrox arrived at the idea of holding a seance at this point…” | — | ||
| 9 | Chapter 3 (continued): “On Zaphod’s brow stood beads of sweat, first of concentration, then of frustration and finally of embarrassment.” | — | ||
| 10 | Chapter 3 (continued): “The noise and the shaking had reached terrifying proportions.” | — | ||
| 11 | Chapter 3 (continued): “Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness…” | — | ||
| 12 | Chapter 3 (continued): “‘No, you listen to me, you see-through old bat,’ said Zaphod…” | — | ||
| 13 | Chapter 3 (continued): “‘It is trying,’ said Zaphod with wonderful restraint, ‘to make tea.’” / Chapter 4: “Ten light years away, Gag Halfrunt jacked up his smile by several notches.” | — | ||
| 14 | Chapter 4 (continued): “They searched every corner of the ship in increasing bewilderment and alarm.” / Chapter 5: “Ursa Minor Beta is, some say, one of the most appalling places in the known Universe.” | — | ||
| 15 | Chapter 5 (continued): “The book is a guide book, a travel book.” | — | ||
| 16 | Chapter 5 (continued): “If at that moment you had then looked at the next table but one you would have seen Zaphod Beeblebrox…” | — | ||
| 17 | Chapter 6: “‘Hello? Yes? Megadodo Publications, home of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…’” | — | ||
| 18 | Chapter 6 (continued): “Zaphod Beeblebrox entered the foyer.” | — | ||
| 19 | Chapter 6 (continued): “‘Mr Beeblebrox, sir,’ said the insect in awed wonder, ‘you’re so weird you should be in movies.’” | — | ||
| 20 | Chapter 6 (continued): “‘Oh, fine,’ said Marvin, ‘if you happen to like being me which personally I don’t.’” | — | ||
| 21 | Chapter 6 (continued): “At that moment a commotion broke out in the reception hall behind them.” | — | ||
| 22 | Chapter 6 (continued): “‘You know something?’ said Zaphod to Marvin.” | — | ||
| 23 | Chapter 6 (continued): “From the opposite direction came a larger black spider-like object.” | — | ||
| 2-1 | Chapter 7: “Marvin stood at the end of the bridge corridor.” | — | ||
| 2-2 | Chapter 7 (continued): “‘Yes, go on,’ said Marvin to the huge battle machine, ‘you’ll never guess.’” | — | ||
| 2-3 | Chapter 7 (continued): “‘Just ran off and left you, did they?’ the machine thundered.” / Chapter 8: “‘So, do we just sit here, or what?’ said Zaphod angrily, …” | — | ||
| 2-4 | Chapter 8 (continued): “The left-hand tower of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy offices streaked through interstellar space…” | — | ||
| 2-5 | Chapter 8 (continued): “‘You ever had a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster?’ asked Zaphod sharply.” / Chapter 9: “The air around the second planet of the Frogstar system was stale and unwholesome.” | — | ||
| 2-6 | Chapter 9 (continued): “About a hundred yards or so away, … was what would probably have to be described as a landing pad of sorts.” | — | ||
| 2-7 | Chapter 9 (continued): “Zarniwoop’s office was on the fifteenth floor.” | — | ||
| 2-8 | Chapter 9 (continued): “There is, however, nothing soothing about being addressed by a disembodied voice out of nowhere, …” | — | ||
| 2-9 | Chapter 9 (continued): “After what seemed like a sort of ethereal sigh it added, ‘You know how it is with bodies.’” / Chapter 10: “The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, …” | — | ||
| 2-10 | Chapter 10 (continued): “Exotic though this behaviour may seem, …” | — | ||
| 2-11 | Chapter 10 (continued): “The voice was still again, leaving Zaphod with no idea of what to say.” | — | ||
| 2-12 | Chapter 10 (continued): “Zaphod shook his head in bemusement and stumbled forward across the plain.” | — | ||
| 2-13 | Chapter 10 (continued): “At the bottom of the shaft, the rear of the elevator opened up and Zaphod stumbled out …” / Chapter 11: “he Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.” | — | ||
| 2-14 | Chapter 11 (continued): “He waited for him to flop forwards out of the box, as they all did.” / Chapter 12: “A short while later he was running across the plain in the direction of the ruined city.” | — | ||
| 2-15 | Chapter 12 (continued): “After a while the remains of a wide sweeping road led off from the one down which he was walking, …” | — | ||
| 2-16 | Chapter 12 (continued): “‘Transtellar Cruise Lines would like to apologize to passengers for the continuing delay to this flight …’” | — | ||
| 2-17 | Chapter 12 (continued): “Zaphod’s skin was crawling all over his body as if it was trying to get off.” | — | ||
| 2-18 | Chapter 12 (continued): “Zaphod glared at him with resentment and loathing.” | — | ||
| 2-19 | Chapter 12 (continued): “‘At an Improbability Level,’ said Zarniwoop, ‘of … oh I don’t know, but something very large.’” / Chapter 13: “Ford Prefect bounded up to the bridge of the Heart of Gold.” / Chapter 14: “Four inert bodies sank through…” | — | ||
| 2-20 | Chapter 14 (continued): “After what seemed an eternity the sea receded…” | — | ||
| 2-21 | Chapter 14 (continued): “He looked at around him at the various shapes that were at last becoming proper shapes…” | — | ||
| 2-22 | Chapter 14 (continued): “Zaphod’s eyes flashed.” | — | ||
| 3-1 | Chapter 15: “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering.” | — | ||
| 3-2 | Chapter 15 (continued): “(you can have on-book haventa forewhen presooning returningwenta retrohome.)” / Chapter 16: “At the bar, Zaphod was rapidly becoming as tired as a newt.” | — | ||
| 3-3 | Chapter 16 (continued): “A wild-skinned sky-gypsy approached them and played electric violin at them…” | — | ||
| 3-4 | Chapter 16 (continued): “Arthur glanced around, half expecting to see someone making an American Express commercial.” | — | ||
| 3-5 | Chapter 16 (continued): “Hotblack Desiato offered no opinion as to whether they were great days or not.” | — | ||
| 3-6 | Chapter 16 (continued): “The suit into which the man’s body had been stuffed looked as if it’s only purpose in life was to…” / Chapter 17: “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band…” | — | ||
| 3-7 | Chapter 17 (continued): “Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath a silvery moon, …” | — | ||
| 3-8 | Chapter 17 (continued): “In the Restaurant the lights dimmed, …” | — | ||
| 3-9 | Chapter 17 (continued): “For a few interminable seconds the Restaurant span silently through the raging void.” | — | ||
| 3-10 | Chapter 17 (continued): “‘May I urge you to consider my liver?’ asked the animal, …” | — | ||
| 3-11 | Chapter 17 (continued): “He paused again. Tonight his timing was immaculate.” | — | ||
| 3-12 | Chapter 17 (continued): “A party of smartly dressed young dogs stopped throwing rolls at each other and started throwing rolls at the stage.” | — | ||
| 3-13 | Chapter 17 (continued): “‘Hey would you let go of my fork?’ snapped Zaphod.” | — | ||
| 3-14 | Chapter 17 (continued): “There were now so many people after him he’d lost count.” | — | ||
| 3-15 | Chapter 17 (continued): “They all agreed this was very neat.” | — | ||
| 3-16 | Chapter 17 (continued): “Few of the other diners paid them any attention as they weaved their way through the Restaurant to the exit.” / Chapter 18: “The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.” | — | ||
| 3-17 | Chapter 18 (continued): “At short intervals along the moving catwalk, wide transparent tubes led down to floor level.” | — | ||
| 3-18 | Chapter 18 (continued): “Ford and Zaphod looked and passed on.” | — | ||
| 3-19 | Chapter 18 (continued): “‘Hey come and feel the surface,’ he said in a hushed voice.” | — | ||
| 3-20 | Chapter 18 (continued): “Had Hotblack Desiato been alive, he probably would have deemed this a good moment to lean back, or even go for a short walk.” | — | ||
| 3-21 | Chapter 18 (continued): “In his eyes were stars and on his brow a golden crown.” / Chapter 19: “One of the major selling point of that wholly remarkable travel book, the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, …” | — | ||
| 3-22 | Chapter 19 (continued): “It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.” | — | ||
| 4-1 | Chapter 20: “The Restaurant continued existing, but everything else had stopped.” | — | ||
| 4-2 | Chapter 20 (continued): “‘How are we doing?’ said Arthur Dent.” | — | ||
| 4-3 | Chapter 20 (continued): “Ford called out from the controls he was still fighting a losing battle with.” | — | ||
| 4-4 | Chapter 21: “Down on the dry, red world of Kakrafoon, in the middle of the vast Rudlit Desert, …” | — | ||
| 4-5 | Chapter 21 (continued): “‘What,’ said Trillian in a small quiet voice, ‘does sundive mean?’” | — | ||
| 4-6 | Chapter 21 (continued): “As a punishment for this behaviour, which was held to be offensively self righteous and provocative, …” | — | ||
| 4-7 | Chapter 21 (continued): “Half-finished wiring hung from the ceiling, …” | — | ||
| 4-8 | Chapter 21 (continued): “A year later, the hundred thousand square mile desert was thick with flowers.” / Chapter 22: “Arthur woke up and instantly regretted it.” | — | ||
| 4-9 | Chapter 22 (continued): “Aldebaran’s great, OK; Algol’s pretty neat; Betelgeuse’s pretty girls; Will knock you off your feet.” | — | ||
| 4-10 | Chapter 22 (continued): “Fear gripped them. From both directions the noise was getting louder.” / Chapter 23: “The vault was low ceilinged, dimly lit and gigantic.” | — | ||
| 4-11 | Chapter 23 (continued): “On closer inspection the coffins seemed to be more like sarcophagi. “ | — | ||
| 4-12 | Chapter 23 (continued): “‘Hello?’ said Ford, turning round slowly, …” / Chapter 24: “‘Err, caption …’; ‘Yes, Number One?’” | — | ||
| 4-13 | Chapter 24 (continued): “He did this every few minutes or so, but never found what he was looking for.” | — | ||
| 4-14 | Chapter 24 (continued): “As the dominant centrepiece of a starship bridge it was terribly wrong, …” | — | ||
| 4-15 | Chapter 24 (continued): “‘All right, you scum,’ he growled, ‘you vermin …’” | — | ||
| 4-16 | Chapter 24 (continued): “Ford looked around.” | — | ||
| 4-17 | Chapter 24 (continued): “‘Trouble with a long journey like this,’ continued the Captain, ‘is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, …’” | — | ||
| 4-18 | Chapter 24 (continued): “He glanced at his first and second officers, but they seemed lost in their own thoughts for a moment.” / Chapter 25: “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about the planet of Golgafrincham:” | — | ||
| 4-19 | Chapter 25 (continued): “And in all this ancient and mysterious history, …” / Chapter 26: “That night the ship crash-landed on to an utterly insignificant little green-blue planet…” | — | ||
| 4-20 | Chapter 26 (continued): “When the sun came up that morning…” | — | ||
| 4-21 | Chapter 26 (continued): “Looking over his shoulder Arthur saw that he was twiddling with knobs on a small black box.” / Chapter 27: “‘I trust you had a pleasant meal?’ said Zarniwoop to Zaphod and Trillian…” | — | ||
| 5-1 | Chapter 28: “The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people…” / Chapter 29: “On a small obscure world somewhere in the middle of nowhere in particular…” | — | ||
| 5-2 | Chapter 29 (continued): “The cat seemed undecided on the matter.” | — | ||
| 5-3 | Chapter 29 (continued): “He played with the calculator for an hour, whilst the cat went to sleep…” | — | ||
| 5-4 | Chapter 29 (continued): “The man looked at them doubtfully.” | — | ||
| 5-5 | Chapter 29 (continued): “The rain continued to pound the roof. Inside the shack it was warm.” | — | ||
| 5-6 | Chapter 29 (continued): “The rain continued to churn the mud.” / Chapter 30: “The stars came out that night, dazzling in their brilliance and clarity.” | — | ||
| 5-7 | Chapter 30 (continued): “Before them in the middle of the clearing stood a group of about two dozen men and women.” | — | ||
| 5-8 | Chapter 30 (continued): “Slowly and watchfully they walked round the perimeter of the clearing.” | — | ||
| 5-9 | Chapter 30 (continued): “For the next fifty miles of their journey eastward they kept on finding the occasional gift of fruit lying in their path…” | — | ||
| 5-10 | Chapter 31: “A few days after landing in this mountainous land they hit a coastline which swept diagonally before them…” | — | ||
| 5-11 | Chapter 32: “A thin whine filled the air.” | — | ||
| 5-12 | Chapter 32 (continued): “Other eyes watched the assembling crowds.” | — | ||
| 5-13 | Chapter 32 (continued): “‘Why not call it a rock?’ asked Ford.” | — | ||
| 5-14 | Chapter 32 (continued): “The marketing girl soured him with a look.” | — | ||
| 5-15 | Chapter 32 (continued): “The Captain leaned forward out of his bath.” | — | ||
| 5-16 | Chapter 32 (continued): “At this point he decided he would not wait all day after all, he would merely pretend that the last half hour hadn’t happened.” | — | ||
| 5-17 | Chapter 32 (continued): “Ford waited for this statement to have its effect.” / Chapter 33: “A mile or so away through the wood, Arthur Dent was too busily engrossed with what he was doing to hear Ford Prefect approach.” | — | ||
| 5-18 | Chapter 33 (continued): “Ford leaned his elbow against the tree and his hand against his head.” | — | ||
| 5-19 | Chapter 33 (continued): “‘No,’ said Ford, ‘there’s nothing we can do…’” | — | ||
| 5-20 | Chapter 33 (continued): “Arthur ran over to the two natives.” | — | ||
| 5-21 | Chapter 33 (continued): “‘There might be a way of bringing that unconscious pattern forward.’” | — | ||
| 5-22 | Chapter 34: “The sun came out and beamed cheerfully at them.” | — | ||
| 5-23 | Chapter 34 (continued): “‘Oh, I’ve heard of worse,’ said Ford, ‘I read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards.’” | — |
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978754075639 is a Universal Product Code (UPC) assigned to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams. UPCs (also called EAN barcodes) are unique numeric identifiers assigned by distributors to identify music releases — albums, EPs, and singles — across all digital and physical retail platforms.
This release contains 111 tracks. Each track has its own ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) that identifies the specific sound recording, while the UPC identifies the release as a whole. Knowing your release's UPC is essential for neighboring rights collection societies like SoundExchange and for transferring music between distributors.
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