Expecting to Fly (Bluetones album)

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Expecting to Fly
Expecting to Fly cover
Studio album by The Bluetones
Released 30 May 1996 (UK)
Recorded 1996
Genre Britpop
Label Superior Quality Recordings/Universal Records
Producer(s) Hugh Jones
Professional reviews
The Bluetones chronology
A Bluetones Companion
(1996)
Expecting To Fly
(1996)
Return To The Last Chance Saloon
(1998)


Expecting to Fly is the debut album by The Bluetones. It was released on July 30, 1996 on Universal Records, and knocked Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory? off the number 1 spot in the UK album charts. Its offspring singles were "Bluetonic", a "Cut Some Rug/Castle Rock" double-A side and "Slight Return".

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Morriss, Chesters, Devlin, Morriss unless otherwise stated.

  1. "Talking To Clarry" - 6:52
  2. "Bluetonic" - 4:08 (Morriss, Chesters, Devlin, Morriss, Mitchell)
  3. "Cut Some Rug" - 4:32
  4. "Things Change" - 5:38
  5. "The Fountainhead" - 4:35
  6. "Carnt Be Trusted" - 3:50
  7. "Slight Return" - 3:21
  8. "Putting Out Fires" - 6:22
  9. "Vampire" - 4:32
  10. "A Parting Gesture" - 4:40
  11. "Time & Again" - 5:09
The Bluetones
Mark Morriss - Adam Devlin - Scott Morriss - Eds Chesters - Richard Payne
Discography
Studio albums: Expecting to Fly - Return To The Last Chance Saloon - Science & Nature - Luxembourg - The Bluetones
Singles: Slight Return/The Fountainhead - Are You Blue or Are You Blind? - Bluetonic - Cut Some Rug/Castle Rock - Slight Return - Marblehead Johnson - Solomon Bites the Worm - If... - Sleazy Bed Track - 4-Day Weekend - Keep the Home Fires Burning - Autophilia - After Hours - Fast Boy/Liquid Lips - Never Going Nowhere - My Neighbour's House
EPs: A Bluetones Companion - Mudslide - Serenity Now
Compilations: Are You Blue? - The Singles - A Rough Outline: The Singles & B-sides 95 - 03