Change Everything
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Change Everything is the third studio album
Album
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 by Del Amitri
Del Amitri
Del Amitri were a Scottish pop-rock guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after teenager Currie placed an advertisement in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him...

, released on 9 June 1992. It reached number 2 in the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
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 – the band's biggest hit LP – and was nominated by Q Magazine as one of the top 50 albums of 1992.http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlists.html#1992 It included the single "Always The Last To Know", which reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
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 and entered the top 40 of the US Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
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.

The LP can be spotted in the Seinfeld
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 episode "The Old Man" hanging on the wall in the record shop where Kramer and Newman tries to sell old LP's.

Track listing

  1. "Be My Downfall" (Justin Currie
    Justin Currie
    Justin Robert Currie is a Scottish singer and songwriter, best known as the founding member of the band Del Amitri and, along with Iain Harvie, is one of only two members of the group to be present throughout its entire existence.-Del Amitri:Justin Currie established the band Del Amitri while...

    ) – 3:29
  2. "Just Like a Man" (Currie, Iain Harvie
    Iain Harvie
    Iain Wallace Harvie is the guitarist with the Scottish rock band called Del Amitri. Along with lead singer and bassist Justin Currie, Harvie is one of only two members to be present throughout Del Amitri's history from its 1982 inception...

    ) – 5:03
  3. "When You Were Young" (Currie) – 3:59
  4. "Surface of the Moon" (Currie) – 5:14
  5. "I Won't Take the Blame" (Currie) – 3:54
  6. "The First Rule of Love" (Currie) – 4:00
  7. "The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere" (Currie) – 3:11
  8. "Always the Last to Know" (Currie) – 4:21
  9. "To Last a Lifetime" (Currie) – 4:08
  10. "As Soon as the Tide Comes In" (Currie) – 4:23
  11. "Behind the Fool" (Currie) – 3:18
  12. "Sometimes I Just Have to Say Your Name" (Currie, Harvie) – 5:52

Credits

  • Justin Currie – vocals
    Singing
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    , bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , guitar
    Guitar
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    s
  • Iain Harvie – guitar
    Guitar
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    s
  • David Cummings – guitar
    Guitar
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    s
  • Andy Alston – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
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  • Brian McDermott – drums
    Drum kit
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  • Nick Clark – bass
    Bass guitar
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     on "When You Were Young", "I Won't Take the Blame" and "Sometimes I Just Have to Say Your Name"

Singles

Cover
Always the Last to Know
Released: April 1992

B-sides:
  • "Learn to Cry"
  • "Angel on the Roof"
  • "The Whole World Is Quiet"


Chart positions: # 13 (UK), # 30 (U.S.)
Be My Downfall
Released: June 1992

B-sides:
  • "Whiskey Remorse"
  • "Lighten Up the Load"
  • "The Heart Is a Bad Design"


Chart positions: # 30 (UK)
Just Like a Man
Released: August 1992 (in two versions)

B-sides:

Version One:
  • "Don't Cry No Tears" (Neil Young
    Neil Young
    Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

    )
  • "Bye Bye Pride" (Grant McLennan
    Grant McLennan
    Grant William McLennan was an Australian singer-songwriter with the alternative rock band The Go-Betweens, which he co-founded with Robert Forster in Brisbane, Australia in 1977...

    , Robert Forster
    Robert Forster (musician)
    Robert Forster is an Australian singer-songwriter, best known for his work with songwriting partner Grant McLennan, with whom he co-founded The Go-Betweens.Forster grew up in Brisbane, Australia attending Brisbane Grammar School...

    )
  • "Cindy Incidentally" (Ian McLagan
    Ian McLagan
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    , Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart
    Rod Stewart
    Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....

    )


Version Two:
  • "Spit in the Rain [Remix]"
  • "I Won't Take the Blame [Acoustic]"
  • "Scared to Live"


Chart positions: # 25 (UK)
When You Were Young
Released: January 1993 (in two versions)

B-sides:

Version One:
  • "Long Journey Home"
  • "The Verb to Do"
  • "Kestrel Road" (Iain Harvie
    Iain Harvie
    Iain Wallace Harvie is the guitarist with the Scottish rock band called Del Amitri. Along with lead singer and bassist Justin Currie, Harvie is one of only two members to be present throughout Del Amitri's history from its 1982 inception...

    )


Version Two:
  • "The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere [Live]"
  • "Kiss This Thing Goodbye [Live]" (Justin Currie
    Justin Currie
    Justin Robert Currie is a Scottish singer and songwriter, best known as the founding member of the band Del Amitri and, along with Iain Harvie, is one of only two members of the group to be present throughout its entire existence.-Del Amitri:Justin Currie established the band Del Amitri while...

    , Harvie, Mick Slaven
    Mick Slaven
    Michael Slaven is a session guitarist and record producer from Glasgow, Scotland.A former gardener at the University of Glasgow, Slaven became the guitarist for Bourgie Bourgie in the 1980s, and was briefly a member of Del Amitri...

    )
  • "Hatful of Rain [Live]" (Currie, Harvie, Slaven)


Chart positions: # 20 (UK)

  • All singles released on A&M Records
    A&M Records
    A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...

    .
  • All B-sides written by Justin Currie unless specified.
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