Some Other Sucker's Parade Explained

Some Other Sucker's Parade
Type:Album
Artist:Del Amitri
Cover:Del Amitri - Some Other Sucker's Parade Album Cover.jpg
Released:24 June 1997
Recorded:November 1996–January 1997
Genre:Alternative rock
Length:50:13
Label:A&M
Producer:Mark Freegard
Prev Title:Twisted
Prev Year:1995
Next Title:Hatful of Rain
Next Year:1998

Some Other Sucker's Parade is the fifth studio album by Del Amitri, released on 24 June 1997 by A&M Records.[1] It reached number 6 in the UK Albums Chart.

History

The album's recording was characterised by changes in personnel. Drummer Ashley Soan had joined the band soon after the release of Twisted (1995), and following their 1995 US tour the group parted company with guitarist David Cummings, who left to become a television scriptwriter. Jon McLoughlin was drafted in to replace him, and would co-write Some Other Sucker's Parades title track with singer/bassist Justin Currie. Both Soan and McLoughlin left soon after the album's recording.

Intended to communicate the band's live sound, the album deliberately used few studio effects in favour of a "raw" feel. "Absolutely as few overdubs as possible," confirmed guitarist Iain Harvie in an October 1997 interview with Guitarist magazine.[2] "Probably about 80 per cent of the songs on this record don't have overdubs, apart from the vocals obviously, with all the harmonies, and maybe the guitar solo if there was a really dreadful mistake in the middle that we just couldn't live with. Wherever possible, we recorded with our live format of bass, drums, two guitars and keyboards for most of the songs."

"Medicine" was slated for a release as the album's second single in September 1997, but was canceled following the death of Princess Diana, due to the lyrics' fleeting mention of a "wreckage".[3] [4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Justin Currie, except where noted.

  1. "Not Where It's At" – 3:39
  2. "Some Other Sucker's Parade" (Currie, Jon McLoughlin) – 3:08
  3. "Won't Make It Better" (Currie, Iain Harvie) – 3:59
  4. "What I Think She Sees" – 2:59
  5. "Medicine" – 2:50
  6. "High Times" (Currie, Harvie) – 4:26
  7. "Mother Nature's Writing" (Currie, Harvie) – 3:50
  8. "No Family Man" – 2:54
  9. "Cruel Light of Day" – 3:13
  10. "Funny Way To Win" (Currie, Harvie) – 3:36
  11. "Through All That Nothing" (Currie, Harvie) – 3:55
  12. "Life Is Full" – 3:22
  13. "Lucky Guy" (Currie, Harvie) – 4:54
  14. "Make It Always Be Too Late" – 3:22

Australian and Japanese bonus tracks

  2. "Sleep Instead of Teardrops" – 4:31 (B-side of "Not Where It's At")
  3. "Paper Thin (Ambient Mix)" – 3:30 (B-side of "Don't Come Home Too Soon")

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album liner notes.[5]

Del Amitri
Additional musicians
Technical

Charts

Chart (1997)! scope="col"
Peak
position
European Top 100 Albums[6] 51
German Albums[7] 81
Scottish Albums[8] 5
Swedish Albums[9] 51
Swiss Albums[10] 46
UK Albums Chart[11] 6
US Billboard 200[12] 160

External links

Notes and References

  1. A&M puts Del Amitri's pop on 'parade'. Sexton. Paul. Billboard. 24 May 1997. 16 June 2022.
  2. http://www.delamitri.com/articles/printmedia/guitar3.html Official Del Amitri website
  3. News update. Infidels and Popstars. 6. delamitri.info. November 1997. 15 June 2022.
  4. Web site: Offensive - as long as it doesn't mean Diana. The Independent. Barber. Nicholas. 23 November 1997. 15 June 2022.
  5. Some Other Sucker's Parade . . 1997. A&M.
  6. Web site: Some Other Sucker's Parade . Music & Media . 16 June 2022.
  7. Web site: Offizielle Deutsche Charts. Offizielle Deutsche Charts. 16 June 2022.
  8. Web site: Some Other Sucker's Parade . Official Charts Company . 16 June 2022.
  9. Web site: Topplistan. swedishcharts.com. 16 June 2022.
  10. Web site: Swiss chart peaks . hitparade.ch . 16 June 2022.
  11. Web site: Official Albums Chart Top 100. Official Charts Company. 16 June 2022.
  12. Del Amitri Chart History: Billboard 200. Billboard. 16 June 2022.

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