You Gotta Go There to Come Back

You Gotta Go There to Come Back is Stereophonics' fourth album, released on V2 in 2003. It became their third consecutive album to top the UK chart selling 101,946 copies in its first week. It was the final Stereophonics album with long-time original drummer Stuart Cable.

The album shows a newly found maturity compared to the brazenness of the previous three.The album is also darker and slightly more bleak then the bands previous albums certin songs and lyrics reflect the personal problems and feelings of the bands frontman Kelly jones. After this mature album they returned to the sound of their previous albums with their next album. The title can also be explained by this statement: they had to go here, and record this album, to come back and return to their old sound.

Track listing

All songs written by Kelly Jones.

1. "Help Me (She's Out of Her Mind)" – 6:55
2. "Maybe Tomorrow" – 4:33
3. "Madame Helga" – 3:55
4. "You Stole My Money Honey" – 4:18
5. "Getaway" – 4:08
6. "Climbing the Wall" – 4:55
7. "Jealousy" – 4:26
8. "I'm Alright (You Gotta Go There to Come Back)" – 4:36
9. "Nothing Precious at All" – 4:20
10. "Rainbows and Pots of Gold" – 4:11
11. "I Miss You Now" – 4:50
12. "High as the Ceiling" – 3:19
13. "Since I Told You It's Over" – 4:43

OTHER SONGS

1. "Royal Flush"
2. "Have Wheels Will Travel"
3. "Change Changes Things"
4. "Moviestar"
5. "Lying to Myself Again"

Bonus tracks

The track "Moviestar" appears on later editions of the album as track 4 and was released with a DVD containing the videos for the singles. The Japanese bonus track was "Lying to Myself Again".

Vinyl editions

The album was released in gatefold sleeve at first, containing two records. When "Moviestar" was included on the album the gatefold sleeve contained three records.

Trivia

This album is the only Stereophonics record which features both Stuart Cable and Javier Weyler. Cable played drums on most tracks as the band's drummer and Weyler, who replaced Cable as the band's drummer in 2005, contributed to the record as a engineer, programmer and percussionist.

The drums on the track "I'm Alright (You Gotta Go There To Come Back)'" are supposedly played by Mac Hine. This is a nod to the drummachine which was used on the track instead of real live drumming.

Reception

You Gotta Go There to Come Back joined its predecessors at #1 on release. It was re-issued with bonus tracks in February 2004, coming into the UK charts again at #35, finally re-entering at #16 in September 2004. It was the 28th biggest selling album of 2003 in the UK.^[5] The track "Maybe Tomorrow" became one of their biggest hits; it was played over the credits of the Academy Award-winning movie Crash (2004) and also during the opening scene of the movie Wicker Park (2004). It was also used in a season one episode of One Tree Hill and featured on the first Charmed soundtrack.

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