Falling Uphill | ||||
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Released | May 27, 2003 | |||
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Length | 40:53 | |||
Label | Maverick | |||
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Lillix chronology | ||||
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Singles from Falling Uphill | ||||
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Falling Uphill is the first album by the Canadian girl pop rock band Lillix. It released by Maverick Records on May 27, 2003.
The album includes a cover version of The Romantics' song "What I Like About You". This song also notably appeared on the Freaky Friday soundtrack, as well as in The WB comedy series What I Like About You. The single releases are "It's About Time", "What I Like About You", and "Tomorrow". "It's About Time" peaked at #17 on the Japan Top 20 chart, number 5 on TRL, and number 33 on the Billboard US Mainstream Top 40 Airplay.[3][4][5] In 2007, Nielsen certified the song as receiving 50,000 spins.[6] "What I Like About You" failed to chart. "Tomorrow" reached number 48 on R&R magazine's Pop Airplay chart. The song "Fork in the Road" was also included on volume 2 of Barbie's Cali Girl CD.[7]
Track listing
[edit]No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Tomorrow" |
| Perry | 3:44 |
2. | "Quicksand" | Burns | Philip Steir | 3:46 |
3. | "It's About Time" |
| The Matrix | 3:41 |
4. | "Dirty Sunshine" |
| The Matrix | 3:17 |
5. | "Sick" |
| Steir | 3:37 |
6. | "Invisible" | L. Evin | Steir | 3:44 |
7. | "24/7" | T. Evin | Glen Ballard | 3:58 |
8. | "Because" | T. Evin | Steir | 2:26 |
9. | "Promises" | T. Evin | Steir | 3:22 |
10. | "Fork in the Road" | L. Evin |
| 3:11 |
11. | "Lost and Confused" | Burns | Steir | 3:16 |
12. | "What I Like About You" |
| Steir | 2:47 |
Total length: | 40:53 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producers | Length |
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13. | "Blind" | T. Evin | Steir | 3:56 |
Total length: | 45:49 |
Notes
[edit]- ^a signifies an additional producer
Personnel
[edit]Lillix
- Lacey-Lee Evin – vocals, keyboards
- Tasha-Ray Evin – vocals, guitar
- Louise Burns – vocals, bass
- Kim Urhahn – drums, backing vocals
Additional personnel
- Glen Ballard – guitar, keyboards, production
- John Fields – guitar, bass, production
- Linda Perry – guitar, bass, keyboards, production
- Corky James – guitar
- Chris Lyon – guitar
- Michael Thompson – guitar
- Phil Solem – guitar
- Patrick Warren – keyboards
- Eric Alexander – drums
- Matt Chamberlain – drums
- Ronnie Ciago – drums
- Dorian Crozier – drums
- Victor Indrizzo – drums
- Joey Marchiano – drums
- Dave Raven – drums
- Dawn Richardson – drums
- Michael Urbano – drums
- Rai Thistlethwayte – piano
- Josh Auer – bass
- Jimmy Johnson – bass
- Philip Steir – drum programming, production
- Brian Barnes - editing
- Jamie Harding – editing
- Steve Marcussen – mastering
Chart performance
[edit]Chart | Position |
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U.S. Billboard 200 | 188[8] |
U.S. Top Heatseekers | 6[8] |
Japanese Albums Chart[9] | 14 |
References
[edit]- ^ Loftus, Johnny. "Falling Uphill - Lillix". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
- ^ Hoard, Christian (June 12, 2003). "Recordings: Lillix, Falling Uphill, 2 stars". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. Archived from the original on June 18, 2003. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
- ^ "It's About Time: Big Markets History". Top40-Charts.com. Retrieved December 10, 2009.
- ^ "TRL". Metacritic.
- ^ "Lillix". Billboard.
- ^ https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-RandR-IDX/IDX/00s/07/RR-2007-06-22-OCR-Page-0013.pdf#search=%22lillix%22 [dead link]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b "Falling Uphill: Charts and Awards". Allmusic.com. Retrieved December 10, 2009.
- ^ "リリックスのCDアルバムランキング、リリックスのプロフィールならオリコン芸能人事典-ORICON STYLE". Oricon.co.jp. Retrieved April 23, 2013.