Cross Purpose

Cross Purpose
Cross Purpose
Studio album by Spooky Tooth
Released Feb 23, 1999
Recorded Jul 22, 1997-Nov 8, 1998
Genre Rock, pop, Progressive Rock, Art Rock
Length 42:36
Label A&M
Producer Chris Stainton, Chris Blackwell
Spooky Tooth chronology
The Mirror
(1974)		 Cross Purpose
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]

Cross Purpose is a reunion album released by Spooky Tooth on Ruf Records in 1999. It was the first album released by the band in twenty-five years, following The Mirror, released in 1974, and the first album in thirty years to feature the majority of the original band lineup,[2] which last recorded Spooky Two, in 1969.

Contents

History

The album was initially planned in 1997, when three tracks ("How", "Kiss it Better" and "Sunshine")[3] were recorded by Harrison, Kellie, Grosvenor and Ridley in England. The project then became stalled due to the distances between band members. The songs were originally to be released in 1998 as part of the album tentatively called Sunshine, which would have combined the three tracks with a 1968 BBC concert[4] and an unreleased track from Deep Feeling, a 1960s band with which both Luther Grosvenor and Dave Mason had been associated.[5] Instead, the owners of Ruf Records heard the three new tracks and persuaded the band to record more new material. Ruf Records financed the costs of relocating the band to record at Andapoe Sound in Weimar, Germany, where seven additional songs were recorded in September, 1998. The album was released in Europe and the United States in February, 1999.[6]

Track listing

  1. "That Was Only Yesterday" (Wright) – 4:30
  2. "Tears (Behind My Eyes)" (Reed) – 5:02
  3. "Throw Me a Line" (Dolan, Grosvenor) – 3:15
  4. "It's You Girl (Message to Deborah)" (Ridley) – 3:30
  5. "Love Is Real" (Harrison) – 5:51
  6. "Sunshine" (Wallinger) – 4:31
  7. "How" (Kellie) – 4:48
  8. "Send Me Some Lovin'" (Marascalco, Price) – 2:35
  9. "I Can't Believe" (Traditional) – 4:12
  10. "Kiss It Better" (Grosvenor, Harrison, Kellie) – 4:22

Personnel

Band members

Others

References

  1. ^ "allmusic ((( Cross Purpose > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r396552. Retrieved 2009-10-13. 
  2. ^ Excluding Gary Wright. See History of Recording Cross Purpose; www.rufrecords.de.
  3. ^ With "Sunshine" having been written by Karl Wallinger of World Party.
  4. ^ The BBC material was later released in 2001 as BBC Sessions; see Discography, Spooky Tooth.
  5. ^ See Richie Unterberger, Biography of Deep Feeling; www.allmusic.com.
  6. ^ Justin Purington, History of Cross Purpose; www.justabuzz.com, section "Luther Grosvenor - Albums".
v · d · eSpooky Tooth
Studio albums
It's All About (1968) · Spooky Two (1969) · The Last Puff (1971) · You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw (1973) · Witness (1973) · The Mirror (1974) · Cross Purpose (1999)
As "Art"
With Pierre Henry
Ceremony (1969)
Live albums
BBC Sessions (2001) · Live in Europe (2007)
Compilations

The Best of Spooky Tooth (1976) · The Best of Spooky Tooth: That Was Only Yesterday (1999) · That Was Yesterday: Introduction (2001) · Lost in My Dream: An Anthology 1968-1974 (2009)
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