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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The album's material was worked together from jam sessions, with the band crediting the establishment of their own personal studio, the Farm, as helping facilitate this mode of songwriting, since it gave them way more time that they wouldn't be able to get from traditionally renting out preexisting studios.

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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The album's material was worked together from jam sessions, with the sessions. The band crediting credited the establishment of their own personal studio, the Farm, as with helping facilitate this mode of songwriting, since it gave them way more time that they wouldn't be able to get from traditionally renting out preexisting studios.
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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The album's material was worked together from jam sessions, with the band crediting the establishment of their own personal studio, the Farm, as helping facilitate this mode of songwriting, since it gave them way more time that they wouldn't be able to get from traditionally renting out preexisting studios.
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** ''Abacab'' was originally conceived as a double album, which would've been their first since ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''. However, much of the material was too similar to their past albums, and the band consequently pared it down to a single LP.

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** ''Abacab'' was originally conceived as a double album, which would've been their first since ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''. However, much of the material was too similar in style to their past albums, and the band band, who wanted to avoid relying on conventions, consequently pared it down to a single LP.

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** "Dodo/Lurker" was meant to be part of a sixteen-minute suite on the 2-LP configuration, followed by (in order) "Submarine" and "Naminanu", before the band decided they didn't like the latter two numbers as much and relegated them to B-sides. Additionally, the TitleTrack was apparently even longer; some sources claim it to have been as many as twelve minutes long. ''Three Sides Live'' contains a performance that's nearly nine minutes long, which seems to conclude with the segment the band was playing over the studio version's fadeout.

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** "Dodo/Lurker" was meant to be part of a sixteen-minute suite on the 2-LP configuration, followed by (in order) "Submarine" and "Naminanu", before the band decided they didn't like the latter two numbers as much and relegated them to B-sides. Additionally, the B-sides.
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TitleTrack was apparently even longer; longer at first; some sources claim it to have been as many as twelve minutes long. ''Three Sides Live'' contains a performance that's nearly nine minutes long, which seems to conclude with the segment the band was playing over the studio version's fadeout.
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* CutSong:
** "Paperlate", "You Might Recall", and "Me and Virgil" were written during the album's sessions, but were ultimately left off; they would instead surface on the companion EP ''3×3'' and on the international release of the LiveAlbum ''Three Sides Live''.
** "Naminanu" and "Submarine" were cut from the final tracklist, but later saw release as B-sides -- "Naminanu" would surface on the European release of "No Reply at All" and on "Keep It Dark" worldwide, while "Submarine" appeared as the flipside to "Man on the Corner".
* RarelyPerformedSong: The TitleTrack was considered for the band's setlist during their 2007 reunion tour, but was dropped thanks to Music/PhilCollins finding the lyrics too incomprehensible to comfortably sing; it would also be omitted from the 2021 reunion tour's setlist.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** ''Abacab'' was originally conceived as a double album, which would've been their first since ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''. However, much of the material was too similar to their past albums, and the band consequently pared it down to a single LP.
** "Dodo/Lurker" was meant to be part of a sixteen-minute suite on the 2-LP configuration, followed by (in order) "Submarine" and "Naminanu", before the band decided they didn't like the latter two numbers as much and relegated them to B-sides. Additionally, the TitleTrack was apparently even longer; some sources claim it to have been as many as twelve minutes long. ''Three Sides Live'' contains a performance that's nearly nine minutes long, which seems to conclude with the segment the band was playing over the studio version's fadeout.
** The band considered releasing "Who Dunnit?" as a single, but decided not to.
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