- Yourself or Someone Like You
Infobox Album |
Name = Yourself or Someone Like You
Type =Album
Artist =Matchbox Twenty
Released = October 1, 1996
Recorded =Atlanta, Georgia , 1995-1996
Genre =Alternative rock
Post-grunge
Length = 46:43
Label = Atlantic
Producer =Matt Serletic
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ze5k8qbnbtz4 link]
Last album =
This album = "Yourself or Someone Like You"
(1996)
Next album = "Mad Season"
(2000)
Misc = Singles
Name = Yourself or Someone Like You
Type = Studio
single 1 =Long Day
single 1 date = 1996
single 2 = Push
single 2 date = 1997
single 3 =3 A.M.
single 3 date = 1998
single 4 = Real World
single 4 date = 1998
single 5 =Back 2 Good
single 5 date = 1998 (US), 1999 (WW)
single 6 =Girl Like That
single 6 date = 1998"Yourself or Someone Like You", is the highly successful debut
album byMatchbox Twenty released in 1996, contained five U.S. hit singles, and sold more than twelve million copies in the U.S. alone. It also went multi-platinum inCanada andAustralia . The band's rock-based sound appealed to many listeners, despite a depressing theme with songs on topics such asloneliness ,psychological abuse ,humiliation ,anger , anddrunkenness .In May 2005,
New York resident Frank Torres sued Matchbox Twenty, claiming that the band had never sought hisconsent to use his photo on the album's cover. In the litigation, Torres claimed the photo was taken as he was walking down the street after being asked to pose. He also claimed the photo had caused him mental anguish. Torres justified the delay in suing Matchbox Twenty by claiming he had only seen the album photo within the last two years. [cite web|url=http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=5778|title=Matchbox Twenty sued over album cover]Track listing
*All tracks were written by Rob Thomas unless otherwise stated.
#"Real World" – 3:50
#"Long Day " – 3:45
#"3 A.M. " (Thomas, John Leslie Goff, John Joseph Stanley,Brian Yale ) – 3:46
#"Push" (Thomas,Matt Serletic ) – 3:59
#"Girl Like That" – 3:45
#"Back 2 Good " (Thomas, Serletic) – 5:40
#"Damn" – 3:20
#"Argue" – 2:58
#"Kody" – 4:03
#"Busted" – 4:15
#"Shame" – 3:35
#"Hang" – 3:47
#"Tired" – 3:57 (Japanesebonus track )Charts
References
succession box
before = "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk "
byJeff Buckley
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
years = May 24 - June 6, 1998
July 26 - August 15, 1998
September 13 - September 19, 1998
after = "You Am I's #4 Record" byYou Am I
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