Alcoholic (song)

"Alcoholic"
Single by Starsailor
from the album Love Is Here
Released 17 September 2001
Format 2 CDs, 7", cassette
Label EMI
Starsailor singles chronology
"Good Souls"
(2001)		 "Alcoholic"
(2001)		 "Lullaby"
(2001)
Love Is Here track listing
"Poor Misguided Fool"
(2)		 "Alcoholic"
(3)		 "Lullaby"
(4)
Music video
Alcoholic on YouTube

"Alcoholic" is the third single from the album Love Is Here by British pop band Starsailor, released in 2001. Often wrongly credited as "Daddy Was an Alcoholic", it is one of their most popular songs so far, and also their first single to be in the UK top ten.[1] In the Love is Here DVD, James Walsh comments that "Alcoholic" is so well known because of the topic of the song.

Contents

Music video

The video for "Alcoholic" starts outside of a house in the night with an image of James in front of a car that has its lights on. The shot then change showing the band playing in a garage with an introspective air in the scene . Later the video shows some scenes inside the house where everything is not in order and it's raining and thundering while the camera moves around simulating the state of an alcoholized person. After all, it's seen from a window on the last bedroom Walsh singing the last sentences of the song dramatically while the rain falls.

Track listings

CD 1

  1. "Alcoholic"
  2. "Alcoholic" (original)
  3. "Let It Shine"
  4. "Alcoholic" (video)

CD 2

  1. "Alcoholic"
  2. "Grandma's Hands"
  3. "Good Souls" (Soulsavers remix)

7"

  1. "Alcoholic"
  2. "Let It Shine"

Cassette

  1. "Alcoholic"
  2. "Grandma's Hands"

Charts

Chart (2001) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart[2] 10

References

  1. ^ "Alcoholic". Chart Stats. Retrieved on 22 January 2009.
  2. ^ "Alcoholic". Chart Stats. Retrieved on 22 January 2009.
Starsailor
Studio albums
EPs
Singles
"Fever" • "Good Souls" • "Alcoholic" • "Lullaby" • "Poor Misguided Fool" • "Silence Is Easy" • "Born Again" • "Four to the Floor" • "In the Crossfire" • "This Time" • "Keep Us Together" • "Tell Me It's Not Over" • " All the Plans"
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