Wishville

Wishville
Studio album by Catherine Wheel
Released 23 May 2000
Recorded 1999 at Helioscentric Studio in Rye, East Sussex, England
Genre Alternative rock
Length 40:29
Label Columbia
Producer Rob Dickinson
Catherine Wheel chronology
Adam and Eve
(1997)
Wishville
(2000)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic54/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Pitchfork1.7/10[3]
Dotmusic8/10

Wishville is the fifth and final album by English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel. Released in 2000, it is the band's only album not to feature bassist Dave Hawes, who was fired prior to its recording; without a permanent bassist, the band focuses on guitar-centered hard rock arrangements. The album's primary single released was "Sparks Are Gonna Fly".

Track listing

  1. "Sparks Are Gonna Fly" – 4:16
  2. "Gasoline" – 4:22
  3. "Lifeline" – 4:29
  4. "What We Want to Believe In" – 4:50
  5. "All of That" – 4:40
  6. "Idle Life" – 4:26
  7. "Mad Dog" – 4:04
  8. "Ballad of a Running Man" – 4:50
  9. "Crème Caramel" – 4:32

Deluxe edition

Wishville was also released in a deluxe edition featuring special packaging and a second CD of live recordings, recorded live 11 July 2000 in New York.

  1. "Lifeline" – 4:56
  2. "Crank" – 3:37
  3. "Fripp" – 7:22
  4. "Ma Solituda (w/ Andrew Montgomery of Geneva on vocals)" – 5:45
  5. "Heal" – 7:21
  6. "Future Boy" – 7:40
  7. "Intravenous/Little Muscle" – 8:00

Cover

The sleeve's designer Storm Thorgerson said: "An underrated band, in our view, with whom we had a fruitful yet turbulent relationship – a high point being Chrome and a low point being Wishville, wherein they kept disputing the idea, and in the end used the wrong version anyway. So here's the right version (on the Classic Rock calendar on which this comment appears), which alludes well to their layers of artistic intent, especially in regards to perception and dimension of human relationships, their music being perverse, obsessive yet lyrical."[4] NB: the "right version" is virtually indistinguishable from the released version.

Singles

Personnel

Musicians

Production

References

  1. "Wishville by The Catherine Wheel". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  2. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r471708
  3. "Catherine Wheel: Wishville Album Review - Pitchfork". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  4. Classic Rock 2010 calendar
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