In Flight (Linda Perry album)

Infobox Album |
Name = In Flight
Type = Album
Artist = Linda Perry
Released = Sept. 16, 1996 (original)
Oct. 11, 2005 (re-release)
Genre = Alternative rock, Blues Rock
Length = 58:18
Label = Interscope Records (original)
Custard Records, Kill Rock Stars (re-release)
Last album =
This album = In Flight
(1996)
Next album = "After Hours"
(1999)

"In Flight" is the first solo album by singer and producer Linda Perry, released in 1996. It was produced by Bill Bottrell (Sheryl Crow, Michael Jackson). Perry re-released the album in 2005 on her own record label Custard Records. The re-release contains original videos from the singles "Freeway" & "Fill Me Up". Perry says that Interscope, her record label in 1996, which had been hoping for something a little catchier than In Flight, didn't promote the album, and the disappointing sales rattled her. "My gut feeling that I relied on failed me. . . . I was devastated", Perry says. She regards In Flight as unfinished business, a rare and deeply personal failure in an otherwise charmed professional life. It's only in hopes of giving it another chance that she consented to take on a few promotional chores.

Track listing

* All music & lyrics written by Linda Perry, published by Famous Music Corp. o/b/o Itself and Stuck In The Troat Music (ASCAP) except where noted
#"In My Dreams" – 5:26
#"Freeway" – 5:54
#"Uninvited" – 4:24
#"Success" (Bill Bottrell, Perry) – 5:25
#"Life In A Bottle" – 4:21
#"Fill Me Up" – 5:00
#"Knock Me Out" (Perry, Marty Wilson Piper, Grace Slick) – 6:50
#"Too Deep" – 5:37
#"Taken" – 3:38
#"Fruitloop Daydream" (Perry, Bottrell, Brian MacLeod, Kevin Gilbert, Dan Schwartz) – 3:15
#"Machine Man" (Perry, MacLeod, Gilbert, Schwartz) – 3:20
#"In Flight" – 5:03

Re-Release Music Videos

#"Fill Me Up" (Music Video) - 4:44
#"Freeway" (Music Video) - 4:35

Leftovers

#"Bill"

* Perry explains "Bill" as "like a mini rock opera, that I didn't put on the new album because it was too big of a production for me to deal with right now". She performed the song live on her unplugged concert "At Moondog Cafe", 1998.

Album information

* "In Flight" was descriped by Perry as a "mini-concept album" inspired by Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" - she says it's something she would like to have done earlier in her career but "I didn't have enough influence in the band." Some songs, like "In My Dreams" & "Too Deep", were already written at the 4 Non Blondes-time but they never recorded the songs.

* "Knock Me Out" was featured on the soundtrack of the film .

Personnel

* Linda Perry – guitars, piano, bass
* Bill Bottrell – guitars, bass, drums
* Kevin Gilbert – keyboards, guitars
* Dan Schwartz – bass, steel guitar
* Brian MacLeod – drums, percussion
* Lisa Germano – violin (appears courtesy of 4AD Records)

Additional Personnel

* Grace Slick – vocals on "Knock Me Out"

Production

*Bill Bottrell – producer
*Linda Perry – co-producer
* Blair Lamb and Mark Cross – engineers
* Recorded at Toad Hall
* Mastered by Joe Gastwirt
* Tom Whalley – A&R direction
* Jill Rose – project coordination