Join with Us

Join with Us
Join with Us
Studio album by The Feeling
Released 18 February 2008
Genre Soft rock
Length 54:38
Label Island
Universal
The Feeling chronology
Twelve Stops and Home
(2006)
Join with Us
(2008)
Together We Were Made
(2011)
Singles from Join With Us
  1. "I Thought It Was Over"
    Released: February 11, 2008
  2. "Without You"
    Released: April 14, 2008
  3. "Turn It Up"
    Released: July 7, 2008
  4. "Join with Us"
    Released: September 15, 2008

Join with Us is the second full-length studio album from guitar-based pop band The Feeling[1]. It was released on 18 February 2008, preceded by the first single from the album, "I Thought It Was Over".

The album sold 41,676 copies in the UK during its first week, debuting at #1.[citation needed] This was lower than the first-week sales of their debut album Twelve Stops and Home, which sold 43,304 copies despite peaking at #2 in the UK Albums Chart.[citation needed]

The album has not performed as well as their debut album single-wise, containing one top 10 hit ("I Thought It Was Over"), compared to Twelve Stops and Home which featured three top 10 hits ("Sewn", "Never Be Lonely" and "Fill My Little World"). "I Thought It Was Over" charted at #9, two positions lower than the highest charting hit on their previous album, "Sewn", which peaked at #7. Two of the other singles from Join with Us, "Without You" and "Turn It Up", have failed to chart in the top 40, peaking at #53 and #67 respectively. Meanwhile the title track, "Join With Us", did receive many positive reviews and praise from critics and fans; most of them hailing the song as one of the best songs by the band. However, despite this, it failed to chart in the top 75 altogether, only peaking at #87 in the UK Singles Chart mainly due to it not being released earlier than it did, coupled with a lack of radio airplay.

Contents

Track listing

The full track listing is as follows (New Friends)[2]:

  1. "I Thought It Was Over" – 4:00
  2. "Without You" – 4:49
  3. "Join with Us" – 4:40
  4. "Spare Me" – 4:27
  5. "Turn It Up" – 3:52
  6. "I Did It for Everyone" – 4:25
  7. "Won't Go Away" – 3:48
  8. "Loneliness" – 3:25
  9. "Connor" – 3:41
  10. "This Time" – 3:20
  11. "Don't Make Me Sad" – 5:00
  12. "The Greatest Show on Earth" – 8:40
  13. "We Can Dance" (hidden track) – 3:20

The special 2-disc edition includes the bonus disc entitled - (Old Friends):

  1. "Sewn" (Dan's Original Version)
  2. "Video Killed the Radio Star" (live from the Hospital)
  3. "Fill My Little World" (acoustic version)
  4. "All You Need to Do"
  5. "Never Be Lonely" (acoustic)
  6. "Don't Give Up"
  7. "When I Return"
  8. "Love It When You Call" (chorale version) [sic]

iTunes bonus tracks

Received as a result of pre-ordering the album from the iTunes Store:

  • "You've Got Big Eyes"
  • "I Thought It Was Over" (acoustic; live video) – 3:27

Chart performance

On the 24th of February 2008 Join with Us entered the UK Albums Chart at #1, one place higher than the band's debut, Twelve Stops and Home. The following week the album dropped to #11, then to #18 the week after.

In the UK, the album sold more than 160,000 copies, and was certified as Gold. Worldwide, it sold around 200,000 copies.

Personnel

The cover art was designed by Juno, a company who have previously produced artwork for Arctic Monkeys and The Zutons.[3][4] The Feeling's covers and design is by Liz Harry, one third of the design team from Juno, but used this project to launch a solo design career.

Release

The first 50,000 copies of the album were printed with an error in the booklet. The lyrics for "Don't Make Me Sad" were printed twice, and there are no lyrics printed for "Won't Go Away". Also, in these copies, the word "Connor", written either in the title of the song or in the lyrics itself is spelled with only one "n" as "Conor". However on the back of some copies, it is spelled as "Connor", while as "Conor" on others.[5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2.5/5 stars[6]
Digital Spy 4/5 stars[7]
The Guardian 2/5 stars[8]
Hot Press (3.5/5)[9]
musicOMH.com 4/5 stars[10]
Times Online 3/5 stars[11]

Initial critical response to Join with Us was generally positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 66, based on 8 reviews.[12]

Other notes

  • The title track "Join with Us" is featured in a commercial for the Toyota Auris, with the band appearing in the commercial performing the song.

References

Preceded by
Sleep Through the Static by Jack Johnson
UK Album Chart number-one album
February 24, 2008
Succeeded by
Back to Black Deluxe Edition by Amy Winehouse

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