The World Is Yours (Ian Brown album)
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The World is Yours is the fifth solo album by Ian Brown
Ian Brown
Ian George Brown is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses, which broke up in 1996 but are confirmed to reunite in 2012. Since the break-up of the Stone Roses he has pursued a solo career...

, released on the October 15, 2007.

In making the album, Brown enlisted the help of The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...

 and Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass, lead guitarist Mark Day, keyboardist Paul Davis, and drummer Gary Whelan...

 bassists Andy Rourke
Andy Rourke
Andy Rourke is a bass guitarist best known for being a former member of The Smiths.-Career:...

 and Paul Ryder
Paul Ryder
Paul Ryder is the former bass player and a founding member of the Manchester band Happy Mondays. He was an active member of the band from its inception in 1983 through to 2000 and was often credited for giving the band their trademark groove upon which some of their biggest hits were built...

 respectively. He also sought the services of Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...

 to play bass on one of the tracks, but failed as McCartney was too busy at the time. Meanwhile, Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...

 guitarist Steve Jones
Steve Jones (musician)
Stephen Philip "Steve" Jones is an English rock guitarist, singer and actor, best known as guitarist and founding member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.-Childhood:...

 and drummer Paul Cook
Paul Cook
Paul Thomas Cook is an English drummer and member of the punk rock band Sex Pistols.-Early life and career:...

 appeared on the album.

Illegal Attacks
Illegal Attacks
"Illegal Attacks" is a single by Ian Brown featured on the album The World Is Yours."Illegal Attacks" was released as the album's lead single on October 8, 2007, and was a contentious track, dealing head-on with the political issues of the day. Sinéad O'Connor is featured as a guest vocalist on the...

 was released as the album's first single, on October 8, 2007, and was a contentious track, dealing head-on with the political issues of the day. The opening notes of the song are plucked softly in arpeggio
Arpeggio
An arpeggio is a musical technique where notes in a chord are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously...

s, which are juxtaposed with the confrontational opening line, "What the fuck is this UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

?" The song then pulses with an ominous, grinding cello
Cello
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, and culminates with Ian Brown pleading earnestly for the return of British soldiers to their homeland:

"Soldiers, soldiers come home, Soldiers come home", (lyrics which had previously been used in "So Many Soldiers" on Golden Greats
Golden Greats (Ian Brown Album)
Golden Greats is the second solo album released by Ian Brown, the ex-frontman of The Stone Roses. Despite the title, the album is not a compilation album, but rather, a studio album...

.)

The single was described by NME
NME
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 as another example of Ian Brown's "godlike genius...an unforgettable plea to world leaders to 'Cop the fook on.'"

The song "On Track" made its debut seven months prior to the release of the actual album on the soundtrack album for Russian 2-part sci-fi movie "Paragraph 78" as an exclusive track. It was used in the closing titles for the first part of the movie. This version was 20 seconds longer as compared to the "The World Is Yours" album version and was a bit lighter as to the orchestral arrangement.

The album was also released in a 2CD deluxe edition, along with a bonus disc containing orchestral arrangements of all twelve tracks.

Standard edition

  1. "The World Is Yours"
  2. "On Track"
  3. "Sister Rose
    Sister Rose
    "Sister Rose" is the second single from Ian Brown's fifth studio album, The World Is Yours. It was released on 3 December 2007 but only charted at number 87 on the UK chart.-CD single:#"Sister Rose"...

    " (feat. Steve Jones and Paul Cook)
  4. "Save Us"
  5. "Eternal Flame"
  6. "The Feeding of the 5000"
  7. "Street Children"
  8. "Some Folks Are Hollow (feat. Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

    )"
  9. "Goodbye To the Broken"
  10. "Me And You Forever" (feat. Steve Jones and Paul Cook)
  11. "Illegal Attacks
    Illegal Attacks
    "Illegal Attacks" is a single by Ian Brown featured on the album The World Is Yours."Illegal Attacks" was released as the album's lead single on October 8, 2007, and was a contentious track, dealing head-on with the political issues of the day. Sinéad O'Connor is featured as a guest vocalist on the...

     (feat. Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

    )"
  12. "The World Is Yours (Reprise)"

Special Edition (Bonus Disc)

  1. "The World Is Yours (Orchestral Mix)"
  2. "On Track (Orchestral Mix)"
  3. "Sister Rose (Orchestral Mix)"
  4. "Save Us (Orchestral Mix)"
  5. "Eternal Flame (Orchestral Mix)"
  6. "The Feeding of the 5000 (Orchestral Mix)"
  7. "Street Children (Orchestral Mix)"
  8. "Some Folks Are Hollow (featuring Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

    ) (Orchestral Mix)"
  9. "Goodbye To the Broken (Orchestral Mix)"
  10. "Me And You Forever (Orchestral Mix)"
  11. "Illegal Attacks (featuring Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

    ) (Orchestral Mix)"
  12. "The World Is Yours (Reprise) (Orchestral Mix)"

Japanese edition

  1. "The World Is Yours"
  2. "On Track"
  3. "Sister Rose
    Sister Rose
    "Sister Rose" is the second single from Ian Brown's fifth studio album, The World Is Yours. It was released on 3 December 2007 but only charted at number 87 on the UK chart.-CD single:#"Sister Rose"...

    " (feat. Steve Jones and Paul Cook)
  4. "Save Us"
  5. "Eternal Flame"
  6. "The Feeding of the 5000"
  7. "Street Children"
  8. "Some Folks Are Hollow (feat. Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

    )"
  9. "Goodbye To The Broken"
  10. "Me And You Forever" (feat. Steve Jones and Paul Cook)
  11. "Illegal Attacks
    Illegal Attacks
    "Illegal Attacks" is a single by Ian Brown featured on the album The World Is Yours."Illegal Attacks" was released as the album's lead single on October 8, 2007, and was a contentious track, dealing head-on with the political issues of the day. Sinéad O'Connor is featured as a guest vocalist on the...

     (feat. Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

    )"
  12. "Sister Rose (Japanese version)"
  13. "The World Is Yours (Reprise)"
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