When You're a Boy | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Susanna Hoffs |
Cover: | Susanna Hoffs When Youre A Boy.jpg |
Released: | January 29, 1991 |
Recorded: | 1990 |
Studio: | A&M Studios, Capitol Studios and Sunset Sound (Hollywood, California)
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Genre: | Rock |
Length: | 45:07 |
Label: | Columbia |
Producer: | David Kahne |
Next Title: | Susanna Hoffs |
Next Year: | 1996 |
When You're a Boy is the debut solo album by Susanna Hoffs. It begins with the Billboard Top 40 single "My Side of the Bed", includes the track "Unconditional Love" (co-written by Cyndi Lauper), and ends with a cover of "Boys Keep Swinging", the 1979 song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno. The album's title comes from the lyrics to the latter.[1]
The album peaked at No. 83 on the US albums chart.
Three singles were released from the album: "My Side of the Bed", "Unconditional Love", and "Only Love". The first two featured the non-LP B-side "Circus Girl".
Jimmy Nicol of Q gave the album four out of five stars and wrote, "An album which expands the Bangles' brief into undreamed of territories. She reveals herself to be a highly inventive composer, lyricist – and even humourist... After all, how many other American pop stars embarking on a solo career would name their album after a late '70s English art-rock 45?"[2]
AllMusic's review was negative, giving it one and a half out of five stars, and remarking, "Although the album was released in 1991, it sounds like bad mid-'80s music. Hoffs and the Bangles had a few catchy pop ditties; however, there are none to be found here."[3]
Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||
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1. | "My Side of the Bed" | 3:29 | ||
2. | "No Kind of Love" | Hoffs, David Kahne, Scott Cutler, Ross Rice | 3:05 | |
3. | "Wishing On Telstar" | Robin Lane, Jimmy Cipolla | 4:11 | |
4. | "That's Why Girls Cry" | David Kahne, Juliana Hatfield, Hoffs | 3:59 | |
5. | "Unconditional Love" | Cyndi Lauper, Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg | 3:51 | |
6. | "Something New" | John Hanes, Cary Sheldon, Hoffs, David Kahne | 3:52 | |
7. | "So Much for Love" | John Hanes, Pearl E. Gates, Peter Dunne, Hilary Hanes | 3:33 | |
8. | "This Time" | Steve Summers | 2:36 | |
9. | "Only Love" | 4:25 | ||
10. | "It's Lonely Out Here" | Hoffs, Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg | 3:52 | |
11. | "Made of Stone" | Jennfer Condos, Hoffs, David Kahne | 3:13 | |
12. | "Boys Keep Swinging" | 4:59 |
Peak position | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] | 67 |
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Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[5] | 8 |
US Cash Box Top 200 Albums[6] | 74 |