Pure (3 Colours Red album)
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Pure is the debut album from U.K. rock band 3 Colours Red
3 Colours Red
3 Colours Red were a rock band from the United Kingdom. They achieved their biggest chart success at the end of the 1990s, along with other Britrock bands such as Ash and Feeder. The band was named by sticking a pin in a London listings magazine, Time Out...

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It was produced by the bands manager Terry Thomas at Livingston Studios in London
London
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 in 1996 and managed to accurately encapsulate the furious assault of their renowned live performances, it reached number 15 in the U.K album charts when it was released on Creation Records
Creation Records
Creation Records was a British independent record label headed by Alan McGee. Along with Dick Green and Joe Foster, McGee founded Creation in 1983. The label lasted until its demise in 1999. The name came from the 1960s band The Creation , whom McGee greatly admired. McGee, Green and Foster were...

 in 1997 and included 4 top 40 singles, it was touted by the music press at the time as one of the best British albums of the decade, catapulting the band into the mainstream media headlights. Having injected energy into the U.Ks dwindling Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...

 scene alongside bands like Feeder
Feeder
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 and Muse
Muse (band)
Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy , Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard...

, they soon became poster boys for the industries newly carved 'Britrock' pigeonhole.

Track listing

All tracks by Pete Vuckovic
Pete Vuckovic
Pete Vuckovic is a British/ Serbian singer/songwriter born in 1971 in Devon, England.He was a keen hard rock/ heavy metal fan as a youngster, playing bass in bands with his older brother throughout his teens in his hometown of Tiverton in Devon, his first success came in 1993 after leaving his own...

/Chris McCormack unless otherwise stated.
  1. "Pure" (Vuckovic) - 3:08
  2. "This Is My Hollywood" - 2:43
  3. "Nerve Gas" - 2:22
  4. "Nuclear Holiday" - 3:06
  5. "Copper Girl" (Vuckovic) - 3:32
  6. "Sixty Mile Smile" - 2:39
  7. "Sunny in England" - 2:37
  8. "Alright Ma" (Vuckovic) - 3:01
  9. "Mental Blocks" - 2:32
  10. "Fit Boy + Faint Girl" (Vuckovic) - 4:28
  11. "Halfway Up the Downs" - 2:26
  12. "Hateslick" - 3:46
  13. "Love's Cradle" - 2:51
  14. "Aniseed" - 2:16

Personnel

  • Pete Vuckovic
    Pete Vuckovic
    Pete Vuckovic is a British/ Serbian singer/songwriter born in 1971 in Devon, England.He was a keen hard rock/ heavy metal fan as a youngster, playing bass in bands with his older brother throughout his teens in his hometown of Tiverton in Devon, his first success came in 1993 after leaving his own...

     – Vocals/Bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Chris McCormack – Guitar
    Guitar
    The 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...

  • Ben Harding – Guitar
  • Keith Baxter
    Keith Baxter (drummer)
    Keith Baxter was an English rock drummer. He was born in Morecambe, Lancashire, England.-Biography:As a teenager he became a founder member of folk metal pioneers Skyclad, recording five albums with them before leaving in 1995, to move to London and join 3 Colours Red, with whom he recorded two UK...

     – Drums
    Drum kit
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  • Terry Thomas – Producer
    Record producer
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  • George Marino – Mastering
    Audio mastering
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