King (Belly album)
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King is an album released by Belly in 1995, two years after their previous album, Star. Although the members had tightened their focus and polished their hook-laden songs, the album and its singles did not meet label expectations in the grunge-friendly atmosphere of 1995, and the band broke up shortly after it was released. In the two decades since King's release, many (including some critics) have reconsidered the initial lukewarm attitude towards the album and now hold it as an equal to Belly's highly-regarded debut Star. King was named at #7 of PopMatters' Top 15 Overlooked Albums of the 1990s. King was also hailed by Will Sheff of Okkervil River as "a winning, confident, masterful collection of songs – poppy and sweet and with a low-key psychedelic undercurrent. Everything good about Star was still there and had been expanded upon, but in many ways this felt like a new, reinvented band." [3]
Track listing
- "Puberty" (Tanya Donelly, Gail Greenwood)
- "Seal My Fate" (Donelly)
- "Red" (Donelly, Tom Gorman)
- "Silverfish" (Donelly, Gorman)
- "Super-Connected" (Donelly, Greenwood)
- "The Bees" (Donelly)
- "King" (Donelly)
- "Now They'll Sleep" (Donelly, Gorman)
- "Untitled And Unsung" (Donelly)
- "L'il Ennio" (Donelly)
- "Judas My Heart" (Donelly, Gorman)
Chart positions
Album
| Chart | Position |
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| US Billboard 200[4] | 57 |
| UK Albums Chart[5] | 6 |
The album went on to sell over 350,000 copies in the US alone.
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1995 | "Now They'll Sleep" | US Modern Rock[6] | 17 |
| UK Singles Chart[5] | 28 | ||
| "Super-Connected" | US Modern Rock[6] | 35 | |
| "Seal My Fate" | UK Singles Chart[5] | 35 |
"Now They'll Sleep" was a modest Pop hit in the U.S charting on the Billboard's Bubbling Under The Hot 100 Singles for 5 weeks in the spring of 1995, peaking at #103.
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Slant Magazine review
- ^ Langmead, Jon. "Hail, Hail: Belly and the making of King". Aquarium Drunkard. Retrieved 3/27/17.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "US Allmusic". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ^ a b c "UK Chartlog". Zobbel.de. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ^ a b "US Allmusic". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
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