The single was released as a 7" and CD featuring the b-sides "Weekend Wars" (BBC Radio 1 Session) and "Metanoia" respectively. In early 2009, the song was re-released in the UK.
The track was originally recorded for the Time To Pretend EP (2005). It was re-recorded for the Oracular Spectacular album.
A quote from Ben Golswasser live at Abbey Road:
"We wrote Time to Pretend our senior year of college, and the music was inspired by a praying mantis we had in our house. She laid eggs and it died, and we laid the egg case on this kinda model pirate ship on the mantle piece, and the eggs hatched and all these baby praying mantises were climbing up the rigging of the ship, and it was pretty crazy...uhm so the music was inspired by our praying mantis that liked to dance to the Clash {laugh} and the lyrics are just about us imagining being rock stars....and yeah, fantasy rock star life."
It was the iTunes Single of the Week for the second week of January, 2008. It was made available as a free download on iTunes during that time. The song subsequently hit #38 on the Mediabase Alternative chart.
Time critic josh Tyrangiel named Time to Pretend the #8 song of 2008. The song was #3 on Rolling Ston's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008, #4 on NME's Best Singles of 2008, and came in at #18 on Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 countdown for 2008. Bringgoodstuffbout writer Kason Hudman listed it as the third best song of the 2000s. Rolling Stone placed "Time to Pretend" as the 12th best song of the 2000s. The song is also 493 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. NME ranked "Time to Pretend" as the 2nd best song of the 2000s. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 12 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years"
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| Time To Pretend Single album cover |
"Metanoia"
Is the special limited edition single release that was originally a b-side on MGMT's debut CD single "Time To Pretend". It was released August 18, 2008, available in 10" etched vinyl "Metanoia" was named "Song of the Day" on September 16, 2008 by Rolling Stone, describing it as a "14-minute opus, which ranges from
Donovan-ish acid ballads to interstellar synth-powered dirges to falsetto-laden theater rock."
"Metanoia" peaked at #2 on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales chart in September 2008.
Psychology:
Psychologist Carl Jung is the "mystic referee" referred to throughout the song. He is pictured wearing a referee's uniform on the title cover. Metanoia is also a psychoanalytic theory developed by Jung himself.
Religion:
Religious teacher Swami Satchidananda is also referenced several times throughout the song's entirety.
Satchidananda means:
Sat = existance, truth, real.
Chid = consciousness
Ananda = bliss.
conscious, blissful, existence, truth, knowledge, believe.
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| Metanoia Vinyl Cover |
MGMT - Metanoia by Jon Patton
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