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Forever Blue (Chris Isaak album)

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Forever Blue
Studio album by
Released May 23, 1995
Recorded 1994
Studio Studio D and Dave Wellhausen Recording, San Francisco
Genre Rockabilly [1]
Length 39 : 48
Label Reprise
Producer Erik Jacobsen
Chris Isaak chronology
San Francisco Days
(1993)
Forever Blue
(1995)
Baja Sessions
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]
Chicago Tribune [3]
Christgau's Consumer Guide (neither)[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music [5]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [1]
Los Angeles Times [6]
NME 7/10 [7]
Orlando Sentinel [8]

Forever Blue is the fifth studio album by American rock and roll musician Chris Isaak . It was released on May 23, 1995. The album included three singles: the Grammy-nominated " Somebody's Crying "; " Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing ," which was featured in Stanley Kubrick 's final film, Eyes Wide Shut ; and "Graduation Day," featured in the 1996 film Beautiful Girls . In 1996, Forever Blue was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album , though it lost to Alanis Morissette 's Jagged Little Pill . [9] [10]

In 2014, a cover of "I Believe" was done by Melissa Hollick [11] [12] for the video game Wolfenstein: The New Order .

Track listing [ edit ]

All songs written by Chris Isaak.

  1. " Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing " ? 2:54
  2. " Somebody's Crying " ? 2:46
  3. "Graduation Day" ? 3:11
  4. "Go Walking Down There" ? 2:49
  5. "Don't Leave Me on My Own" ? 2:14
  6. "Things Go Wrong" ? 3:00
  7. "Forever Blue" ? 2:42
  8. "There She Goes" ? 3:14
  9. "Goin' Nowhere" ? 2:52
  10. "Changed Your Mind" ? 3:51
  11. "Shadows in a Mirror" ? 3:59
  12. "I Believe" ? 3:09
  13. "The End of Everything" ? 3:05

Personnel [ edit ]

  • Chris Isaak ? vocals, guitar
  • Rowland Salley ? bass, vocals
  • Kenney Dale Johnson ? drums, vocals
  • Bruce Kaphan ? pedal steel guitar
  • Jimmy Pugh ? Hammond B3 organ
  • Johnny Reno ? saxophone, vocals
  • Jeff Watson ? lead guitar
  • Gregg Arreguin ? guitar

Charts [ edit ]

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart [13] 2
Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart [13] 37
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart [13] 32
Dutch Albums Chart [13] 46
French SNEP Albums Chart [14] 19
German Albums Chart [13] 55
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart [13] 7
Norwegian Albums Chart [13] 31
Swedish Albums Chart [13] 9
Swiss Albums Chart [13] 40
UK Albums Chart [15] 27
Billboard 200 [16] 31

Sales and certifications [ edit ]

Region Certification Certified units /sales
Australia ( ARIA ) [17] 3× Platinum 210,000 ^
Canada ( Music Canada ) [18] Gold 50,000 ^
United States ( RIAA ) [20] Platinum 1,200,000 [19]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b Sinclair, Tom (1995-05-26). "Forever Blue" . Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 2017-07-29 .
  2. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r212508
  3. ^ Goulding, Steve (1995-07-27). "Chris Isaak Forever Blue (Reprise)" . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 2017-12-15 .
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s . Macmillan Publishing . p. 145. ISBN   9780312245603 .
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music . Omnibus Press . ISBN   9780857125958 .
  6. ^ Willman, Chris (1995-05-27). "Album Reviews: Making a Good Case Out of Lost Love" . Los Angeles Times . ISSN   0458-3035 . Retrieved 2017-12-15 .
  7. ^ Dalton, Stephen (1995-06-03). "Long Play" . NME . p. 48 . Retrieved 2024-01-20 .
  8. ^ Gettelman, Parry (1995-06-02). "Chris Isaak". Orlando Sentinel .
  9. ^ Strauss, Neil (1996-01-05). "New Faces in Grammy Nominations" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2017-12-15 .
  10. ^ "38th Annual GRAMMY Awards" . GRAMMY.com . 2017-11-28 . Retrieved 2017-12-15 .
  11. ^ "Melissa Hollick ? singer songwriter ? music" . Archived from the original on 2014-08-08 . Retrieved 2014-08-04 .
  12. ^ "The New Order ? I Believe ? SoundCloud" . Retrieved 2014-08-04 .
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i Forever Blue , in various albums charts Lescharts.com Retrieved June 26, 2009
  14. ^ French Albums Chart See: "Selection des autres artites" => "Chris ISAAK" Infodisc.fr Archived June 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved June 26, 2009
  15. ^ "Chris Isaak" . The Official Charts Company .
  16. ^ Billboard allmusic.com Retrieved June 26, 2009
  17. ^ "ARIA Charts ? Accreditations ? 2010 Albums" (PDF) . Australian Recording Industry Association .
  18. ^ "Canadian album certifications ? Chris Isaak ? Forever blue" . Music Canada .
  19. ^ "Ask Billboard: Answers to readers' questions about Chris Isaak, Britney Spears and Janet Jackson" . Billboard. Archived from the original on September 29, 2014.
  20. ^ "American album certifications ? Chris Isaak ? Forever blue" . Recording Industry Association of America .