Expecting to Fly (album)


Expecting to Fly is the debut studio album by The Bluetones. It was released on 12 February 1996, knocking Oasis's Morning Glory? off the number 1 spot in the UK Albums Chart for a week. The album is currently certified Platinum by the BPI. Its singles were "Bluetonic", "Slight Return" and "Cut Some Rug".
A 2 CD Expanded Edition of the album was released on 9 March 2009.

Reception

Sam Taylor in Q wrote, "Perhaps the most accomplished rock debut album since The Stone Roses in 1989, Expecting to Fly avoids the usual primitive drive of first recordings, in favour of technical brilliance and adventurous songwriting... a classic rock album." List journalist Brian Donaldson likened The Bluetones to "a Squeeze for the 90s", and noted that the record has "excellence exhibited throughout". David Sinclair of Rolling Stone called the album "an accomplished and varied collection of guitar-based tunes with a solid charm rooted in the best traditions of English alternative pop—no more, but certainly no less."
Melody Maker placed it at no. 19 on their list of 1996's Albums of the Year. NME ranked the LP at no. 11 in their 1996 critic poll.

Track listing

All tracks written by Morriss, Chesters, Devlin, Morriss unless otherwise stated.
  1. "Talking to Clarry" – 6:52
  2. "Bluetonic" – 4:08
  3. "Cut Some Rug" – 4:32
  4. "Things Change" – 5:38
  5. "The Fountainhead" – 4:35
  6. "Carnt Be Trusted" – 3:50
  7. "Slight Return" – 3:21
  8. "Putting Out Fires" – 6:22
  9. "Vampire" – 4:32
  10. "A Parting Gesture" – 4:40
  11. "Time & Again" – 5:09

    Collector's Edition

Disc: 2

  1. "A Parting Guesture"
  2. "Cut Some Rug"
  3. "Bluetonic"
  4. "Are You Blue or Are You Blind?"
  5. "Fountainhead"
  6. "Time & Again"
  7. "Driftwood"
  8. "Can't Be Trusted"
  9. "Are You Blue or Are You Blind?"
  10. "Cut Some Rug"
  11. "Can't Be Trusted"
  12. "Bluetonic"
  13. "Time & Again"

    Personnel

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