Hope Springs Eternal

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

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

[edit] Track listing

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

[edit] Credits

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

[edit] 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.