Blurring the Edges
Encyclopedia
Blurring the Edges is the first album
by American
singer-songwriter
Meredith Brooks
, released in 1997.
Singles
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by American
United States
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singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Meredith Brooks
Meredith Brooks
Meredith Ann Brooks is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist. She is best known for her 1997 hit song "Bitch", for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.- Early life :...
, released in 1997.
Track listing
- I NeedI Need (Meredith Brooks song)"I Need" is the second single taken from the album Blurring the Edges by rock singer Meredith Brooks. It was released on November 25, 1997....
(Brooks, PeikenShelly PeikenShelly Peiken is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter who is best known for her #1 hits "What a Girl Wants" and "Come on Over Baby ".Shelly and Meredith Brooks earned a Grammy nomination for Brooks's hit song "Bitch"....
) – 4:10 - Bitch (Brooks, Peiken) – 4:12
- Somedays (Brooks, Dvoskin) – 3:45
- Watched You Fall (Brooks, Ward) – 4:50
- Pollyanne (Brooks, Peiken) – 3:14
- Shatter (Brooks, Peiken) – 3:59
- My Little Town (Brooks, Corey, Lynch) – 3:59
- What Would HappenWhat Would Happen"What Would Happen" is the third single taken from the album Blurring the Edges by American rock singer Meredith Brooks. It was released on February 10, 1998.-Track listing:# What Would Happen # Come Undone # Stop...
(Brooks) – 5:16 - It Don't Get Better (Brooks, DukesKevin DukesKevin Dukes is an American guitarist, born in Brookhaven, Mississippi in 1956.A native of Natchez, Mississippi, Kevin attended The University of Southern Mississippi as a Music Theory and Composition major prior to moving to Los Angeles, California in the late 1970s...
) – 4:12 - Birthday (Brooks, Peiken) – 3:14
- Stop (Brooks, Dvoskin) – 5:00
- Wash My Hands (Brooks, Dvoskin, Peiken) – 5:04
- Down by the River - 4:15 Japan bonus track
- Bitch (Transistor Mix) - 4:08 Japan bonus track
Personnel
- Meredith Brooks - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, lead vocals - Paul Bushnell - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Jim Ebert - synthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
, bass - Josh FreeseJosh FreeseJosh Freese is an American session drummer and songwriter. He is a permanent member of A Perfect Circle, The Vandals, and Devo, having formerly played drums for Nine Inch Nails from late 2005 until late 2008, and for Guns N' Roses from mid-1998 to 2001. Freese has appeared on close to 300 records....
- drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person .... - Victoria Levy - background vocals
- David RickettsDavid RickettsDavid Ricketts is an American musician and record producer.Ricketts scored hits in the mid 1980s with David Baerwald in their group David & David, notably the track "Welcome to the Boomtown" from their only album Boomtown.His failed relationship with singer Toni Childs formed the basis for her...
- bass, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Jimmy Woods -- harmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
- Nick Drapela - rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
Production
- Producers: Geza X, David Ricketts
- Engineers: Jim Ebert, Geza X
- Assistant engineers: S. "Husky" HoskuldsS. Husky HöskuldsS. Husky Höskulds is a Grammy Award–winning audio engineer based in Los Angeles, California.He moved to Los Angeles in 1991, to study audio engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles...
, Mauricio Iragorri, Cappy Japngie, Charles Nasser - Mixing: Jim Ebert
- Mastering: Bob Ludwig
- Programming: Jim Ebert, Geza X, David Ricketts
- Design: David Lair
- Art Direction: Tommy Steele
- Photography: John Dunne, Shelly Peiken, Robert Zuckerman
Charts
AlbumYear | Chart | Position |
---|---|---|
1997 | The Billboard 200 | 22 |
Top Canadian Albums | 11 | |
August 17, 1997 | UK Albums Chart | 5 |
Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
---|---|---|---|
1997 | "Bitch" | Adult Top 40 | 14 |
Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 34 | ||
Modern Rock Tracks | 4 | ||
The Billboard Hot 100 | 2 | ||
Top 40 Adult Recurrents | 10 | ||
Top 40 Mainstream | 1 | ||
"What Would Happen" | Adult Top 40 | 21 | |
Top 40 Mainstream | 15 | ||
1998 | The Billboard Hot 100 | 46 | |
"Stop" | Top 40 Mainstream | 40 |