Word Gets Around

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Word Gets Around
Studio album from Stereophonics

Publication
(s)

August 25, 1997

Label (s) V2 records

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Britrock

Title (number)

12

running time

42m02s

occupation
  • Bass : Richard Jones

production

  • Marshall Bird & Steve Bush

Studio (s)

Various

chronology
- Word Gets Around Performance And Cocktails
(1999)

Word Gets Around is the first album by the Welsh band Stereophonics . The music was written by the band together, while the lyrics were written by singer Kelly Jones . The album peaked at number 6 on the UK album charts.

admission

The album was recorded in six different studios in the UK and mixed in the Gateway Studios in Portland in the US state of Maine mastered . The responsible producers were the duo Bird and Bush consisting of Marshall Bird & Steve Bush, the mastering was done by Bob Ludwig, President of Gateway Mastering & DVD. The album was released on August 25, 1997 by V2 Records .

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
More Life in a Tramp's Vest
  UK 33 05/25/1997 (1 week)
A thousand trees
  UK 22nd 08/17/1997 (1 week)
traffic
  UK 20th 11/02/1997 (1 week)
Local boy in the photographer
  UK 14th 02/15/1998 (2 weeks)
  1. A Thousand Trees - 3:02
  2. Looks Like Chaplin - 2:32
  3. More Life in a Tramp's Vest - 2:19
  4. Local Boy in the Photograph - 3:22
  5. Traffic - 4:54
  6. Not up to You - 4:37
  7. Check My Eyelids for Holes - 2:43
  8. Same Size Feet - 3:59
  9. Last of the Big Time Drinkers - 2:45
  10. Goldfish Bowl - 3:02
  11. Too Many Sandwiches - 5:03
  12. Billy Davey's Daughter - 3:45

occupation

tape

Guest musician

  • Marshall Bird: Keyboards (also producer)
  • Nadia Lannman: Cello (on Billy Davey's Daughter )
  • Richard Payne: accordion (on Not up to You )

Singles

  • First single was Local Boy in the Photograph . The text is based on a true story that happened in Flint , North Wales. A local boy died of rail suicide . The following day, the local newspaper featured him on the front page. Singer Kelly Jones knew the boy and thought he deserved an honor in the form of the song. The Q Awards 2007 of the magazine Q won the song the Q Classic Song Award .
  • The second single More Life in a Tramp's Vest tells the life from the point of view of a supermarket employee who packs the goods he has bought into bags.
  • A Thousand Trees , released as the third single, is about a respected high school gym teacher who ruins his career by having a sexual relationship with a student.
  • Traffic was the last release from the album Word Gets Around . It was released in October and reached number 20 on the charts.

Reviews

  • BBC Wales wrote of the album: "Word Gets Around may be a debut album, but it is the music of a fully developed band and to this day marks a high point in stereophonics."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hogweed.org ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2010 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hogweed.org
  2. ↑ a b artistdirect.com
  3. ↑ Review ( memento of March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on bbc.co.uk.