Emergency on Planet Earth

Emergency on Planet Earth
Studio album by Jamiroquai
Publication (s)	May 17, 1993
Label (s)	S2 Records , Columbia
Format (s)	LP , CD
Genre (s)	Acid jazz , funk
Title (number)	10
running time	55m 22s
occupation	Jay Kay : vocals Wallis Buchanan : Didgeridoo Toby Smith : Keyboard Stuart Zender : electric bass Simon Bartholomew : electric guitar
production	Mike Nielssen
chronology - Emergency on Planet Earth The Return of the Space Cowboy (1994)

Emergency on Planet Earth is the debut album by British acid jazz band Jamiroquai . The album was released on May 17, 1993 in England and June 11 in Germany. On the album is the single Blow Your Mind , which made it to number 33 in the singles charts in Germany.

General

The album was released on the English label S2 Records , which is subordinate to Sony Music and at that time was still called Sony Soho Square (from the point of view of Soho Square in London ). It was released on CD and as a double LP . On the double LP, the first four songs were written out as "Extended Mixes", whereby they were only extended by a few minutes. For example, Too Young to Die takes six minutes on CD, while ten minutes on vinyl. The playing time of the LP is about nine minutes longer than that of the CD. On the cover you can see a black Buffalo Man against a white background . The Buffalo Man is the band's logo. The album is also featured in the anthology 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die by Robert Dimery. It's one of Kool Savas' favorite albums .

Track list

1. When You Gonna Learn - 3:50
2. Too Young to Die - 6:05
3. Hooked Up - 4:35
4. If I Like It I Do It - 4:53
5. Music of the Mind - 6:22
6. Emergency on Planet Earth - 4:05
7. Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop - 4:07
8. Blow Your Mind - 8:32
9. Revolution 1993 - 10:16
10. Didgin 'Out - 2:37

Singles

• When you gonna learn? (October 19, 1992)
• Too Young to Die (March 1, 1993)
• Blow Your Mind (May 24, 1993)
• Emergency on Planet Earth (August 2, 1993)
• When you gonna learn? (re-release; September 13, 1993)

Chart placements

title	Chart positions
	DE	AT	CH
Emergency on Planet Earth	17th	11	5
When you gonna learn?	-	-	-
Too Young to Die	-	-	14th
Blow your mind	33	-	-
Emergency on Planet Earth	-	-	-

Web links

• Emergency on Planet Earth at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rocklistmusic.co.uk
2. ↑ DASDING interview on YouTube, February 28, 2019.
3. ↑ musicline.de ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ austriancharts.at
5. ↑ hitparade.ch
6. ↑ musicline.de ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ austriancharts.at
8. ↑ hitparade.ch