Hope Springs Eternal

Infobox Album |
Name = Hope Springs Eternal
Type = Album
Artist = The Echoing Green


Released = January, 1997
Recorded = Voodoo Studios, Chicago
Genre = Electronica
Length = 43:55
Label = MYX Records
Producer = Seven Red Seven
Reviews =
Last album = "Science Fiction"
(1996)
This album = "Hope Springs Eternal"
(1997)
Next album = "The Echoing Green / The W's Split EP"

Hope Springs Eternal is a 1997 album by The Echoing Green.

Track listing

# "Fall.4" (Joey Belville) – 4:00
# "In My Head" (John Ashton, Richard Butler, Timothy Butler) – 3:05
# "Atmosphere" (Dave Sears, Mitchell Adrian, Belville) – 4:04
# "Like a Child" (Ian Eskelin, Max Hsu) – 3:43
# "Face of God" (Belville) – 3:29
# "Ambler" (Belville) – 4:18
# "Science Fiction" (Belville, Patrick McCallum) – 4:23
# "Heart With a View" (Belville) – 4:03
# "Anthem" (Belville, Cody Williams) – 4:07
# "Words" (Warren Cuccurullo, Terry Bozzio) – 3:52
# "Oxygen" (Belville, Sears) – 4:47

Credits

* Joey Belville – vocals, ?
* Keven 131 – guitar
* Skip Heitzig – bass on "Ambler"
* Mitchell Adrian – additional backing vocals

Derivation of title

The title of the album comes from a line in the Alexander Pope poem, An Essay on Man, written in 1733:

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.