Try This

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Try This
Try This cover
Studio album by Pink
Released November 11, 2003 Flag of the United States
November 10, 2003Flag of the United Kingdom
Recorded 2003
Genre Rock, pop rock, punk
Length 53:00 (without bonus tracks)
Label Arista
Producer Tim Armstrong, billymann, Jonathan Davis, Linda Perry, Damon Elliott
Professional reviews
Pink chronology
M!ssundaztood
(2001)		 Try This
(2003)		 I'm Not Dead
(2006)
Singles from Try This
  1. "Trouble"
  2. "God Is a DJ"
  3. "Last to Know"

Try This is the third album by pop singer Pink, released on November 11, 2003 (see 2003 in music). It features the singles "Trouble", "God Is a DJ" and "Last to Know", and is her first album to feature a Parental Advisory warning.

Contents

[edit] Background

Most of the tracks were produced and co-written by punk band Rancid singer and guitarist Tim Armstrong, whom Pink met through a mutual friend at a Transplants video shoot. The two hit it off and Pink ended up co-writing ten songs with him in a week when Rancid was on a tour with the Foo Fighters. Eight of these tracks appeared on Try This, which also features three songs written with Linda Perry, who co-wrote much of M!ssundaztood (2001), Pink's second album. The album includes a collaboration with electroclash artist Peaches, "Oh My God", and Pink's contribution to the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle film soundtrack, "Feel Good Time" (produced by and featuring William Orbit), as a non-U.S. bonus track.

Pink said in an interview with The Irish Times in 2006 that she wasn't happy with the way the label wanted her to make an album after the success of M!ssundaztood. "I was kind of rebelling against the label on that one", she said. "I was going: 'You want a record? Fine, I'll write 10 songs in a week for your fuckin' record and you can press it up and put it out.'"[1] During the promotion of the record, she was very emotional, saying "That was an awful time. I was walking out of half my interviews crying. I just felt they were putting a quarter in the slot to watch the monkey dance."[1]

[edit] Chart performance

Try This debuted at number nine on the U.S. Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 147,000 copies, a weaker debut than that of M!ssundaztood.[2] As of May 2, 2004, the album had reached the top ten on album charts in the UK, Canada and Australia. As of March 2007, it had sold 719,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan,[3] and three million copies worldwide according to Pink herself on her E! True Hollywood Story.

The album's first single, "Trouble", reached number two in Canada and the top ten in the UK and Australia, but it peaked only at number sixty-eight on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. In 2003, "Catch Me While I'm Sleeping" was issued as a promotional single in the U.S.;[4] in the same period, a promo CD-R acetate of "Humble Neighborhoods" was made available in the UK.[5] Follow-up single "God Is a DJ" failed to chart on the Hot 100, reached number eleven in the UK and reached the top twenty on the the world dance/trance chart (which is derived from U.S., UK, German, Australian, Japanese and Italian dance charts). A third single, "Last to Know", was released exclusively in Europe and peaked at twenty-one in the UK. Test promo CDs for "Humble Neighborhoods" were sent to radio stations in the U.S. shortly before "Last to Know".[citation needed]

Pink embarked on the Try This Tour in Europe during 2004, and a DVD chronicling the tour was released in 2006. "Trouble" was used in the 2004 film White Chicks, and "God Is a DJ" was featured on the soundtrack of the film Mean Girls.

[edit] Track listing

Worldwide
  1. "Trouble" (Tim Armstrong, Pink) – 3:13
  2. "God Is a DJ" (billymann, Jonathan Davis, Pink) – 3:46
  3. "Last to Know" (Armstrong, Pink) – 4:03
  4. "Tonight's the Night" (Armstrong, Pink) – 3:56
  5. "Oh My God" featuring Peaches (Armstrong, Merrill Nisker, Pink) – 3:44
  6. "Catch Me While I'm Sleeping" (Linda Perry, Pink) – 5:03
  7. "Waiting for Love" (Paul Ill, Brian MacLeod, Perry, Pink, Eric Schermerhorn) – 5:28
  8. "Save My Life" (Armstrong, Pink) – 3:16
  9. "Try Too Hard" (Perry, Pink) – 3:14
  10. "Humble Neighborhoods" (Armstrong, Pink) – 3:52
  11. "Walk Away" (Armstrong, Pink) – 3:39
  12. "Unwind" (Armstrong, Pink) – 3:14
  13. "Love Song" (Damon Elliott, Pink) – 6:32
  14. "Feel Good Time" featuring William Orbit (William Orbit, Beck) – 3:58 (non-U.S. bonus track)
  15. "Hooker" (hidden track) – 6:32
UK
13. "Feel Good Time"
14. "Love Song"
15. "Hooker"
Japan
13. "Feel Good Time"
14. "Delerium"
15. "Free"
16. "Love Song" (+Hidden Track "Hooker")
Single B-sides
  1. "Free" ("Trouble" B-side)
  2. "Delirium" ("Trouble" B-side)

[edit] Personnel

  • Pink - lead vocals
  • Tim Armstrong - guitar, acoustic bass, keyboards, backup vocals, loops, sound effects, engineer, producer
  • Jonathan Davis - guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, drum programming, producer, keyboards, engineer, arranger
  • Linda Perry - guitar, sitar, mellotron, producer
  • Damon Elliott - percussion, keyboards, programming, producer
  • John Fields - bass, guitar, percussion, piano, keyboards, drums, wah wah guitar, programming, engineer, producer
  • Robbie Campos - acoustic guitar, producer, keyboards, arranger
  • Dave Carlock - organ, keyboards, bass, drum programming, backup vocals
  • Matt Mahaffey - synthesizer, glockenspiel, turntables, omnichord, keyboards, drums
  • Atticus Ross - synthesizer, percussion, loops, engineer
  • Vic Ruggiero - piano, Hammond organ
  • David Paich - organ, Hammond organ
  • Grecco Buratto - guitar
  • Eric Schermerhorn - guitar
  • Steve Stevens - guitar
  • Matt Freeman - bass
  • Janis Tanaka - bass
  • Nick Lane - trombone
  • Lee Thornburg - trumpet
  • Greg "Frosty" Smith - baritone sax
  • Charlie Bisherat - violin
  • Travis Barker - drums
  • Dorian Crozier - drums
  • Joshua Seth Eagan - percussion, drums
  • Brian Keeling - drums
  • Brett Reed - percussion, drums
  • Galadriel Masterson - backup vocals
  • Hopey Rock - backup vocals
  • Lon Price - horn arrangements
  • Roger Davies - executive producer
  • Craig Logan - executive producer
  • Chris Lord-Alge - mixing
  • Dave Pensado - mixing
  • Brian Gardner - mastering
  • David Guerrero - engineer
  • Padraic Kerin - engineer
  • Steven Miller - engineer, mixing
  • Tony Cooper - assistant engineer
  • John "Silas" Cranfield - assistant engineer
  • Pat Dammer - assistant engineer
  • Jay Goin - assistant engineer
  • Femio Hernández - assistant engineer
  • Chris Testa - assistant engineer
  • Ethan Willoughby - assistant engineer
  • Joshua Sarubin - A&R
  • Jeri Heiden - art direction, design
  • Glen Nakasako - art direction, design
  • Andrew McPherson - photography

[edit] Charts

Chart (2003) Peak
position
Swiss Albums chart 1
German albums chart 2
UK albums chart 3
Australian albums chart 8
Canadian albums chart 8
Ireland albums chart 8
Netherlands albums chart 8
U.S. Billboard 200 9
French Albums Chart 12
Chart Certification Sales
Australia ARIA Platinum 70,000+
Austria IFPI Platinum 15,000+
Canada CRIA Platinum 100,000+
Germany IFPI Platinum 200,000+
France Gold 130,000
Norway IFPI Gold 20,000+
Switzerland IFPI Platinum 40,000+
UK BPI Platinum 486,655
U.S. RIAA Platinum 724,000

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Boyd, Brian. "Pink Panther". The Irish Times. November 2006.
  2. ^ Harris, Chris. "Pink Outdone By Rascal Flatts On Billboard Chart". MTV News. April 12, 2006. Retrieved January 30, 2007.
  3. ^ "Pink's latest album gets another chance". Reuters/Billboard. March 24, 2007. Retrieved May 19, 2007.
  4. ^ "PINK Catch Me While I'm Sleeping". eil.com. Retrieved August 31, 2007.
  5. ^ "PINK Humble Neighbourhoods". eil.com. Retrieved August 31, 2007.
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