In Flight (Linda Perry album)
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In Flight | ||||
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Studio album by Linda Perry | ||||
Released | Sept. 16, 1996 (original) Oct. 11, 2005 (re-release) |
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Genre | Alternative rock, blues rock | |||
Length | 58:18 | |||
Label | Interscope (original) Custard Records, Kill Rock Stars (re-release) |
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Producer | Bill Bottrell, Linda Perry | |||
Linda Perry chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The A.V. Club | (unfavorable) [2] |
Chicago Tribune | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | D (1996) [4] C+ (2005)[5] |
Los Angeles Times | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
People | (favorable) [7] |
Q | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Robert Christgau | ![]() |
In Flight is the first solo album by singer and producer Linda Perry, released in 1996. It was produced by Bill Bottrell (Sheryl Crow, Michael Jackson). Perry re-released the album in 2005 on her own record label Custard Records. The re-release contains original videos from the singles "Freeway" and "Fill Me Up". Perry says that Interscope, her record label in 1996, which had been hoping for something a little catchier than In Flight, didn't promote the album, and the disappointing sales rattled her. "My gut feeling that I relied on failed me. . . . I was devastated", Perry says.
Contents
Track listing
All music & lyrics written by Linda Perry, published by Famous Music Corp. o/b/o Itself and Stuck In The Troat Music (ASCAP) except where noted
- "In My Dreams" – 5:26
- "Freeway" – 5:54
- "Uninvited" – 4:24
- "Success" (Bill Bottrell, Perry) – 5:25
- "Life In A Bottle" – 4:21
- "Fill Me Up" – 5:00
- "Knock Me Out" (Perry, Marty Willson-Piper, Grace Slick) – 6:50
- "Too Deep" – 5:37
- "Taken" – 3:38
- "Fruitloop Daydream" (Perry, Bottrell, Brian MacLeod, Kevin Gilbert, Dan Schwartz) – 3:15
- "Machine Man" (Perry, MacLeod, Gilbert, Schwartz) – 3:20
- "In Flight" – 5:03
Re-Release Music Videos
- "Fill Me Up" (Music Video) - 4:44
- "Freeway" (Music Video) - 4:35
Leftovers
- "Bill": Perry explains "Bill" as "like a mini rock opera, that I didn't put on the new album because it was too big of a production for me to deal with right now". She performed the song live on her unplugged concert "At Moondog Cafe", 1998.
- "Shame": B-side to "Fill Me Up" single.
- "Blow": B-side to "Freeway" single.
Album information
- In Flight was described by Perry as a "mini-concept album" inspired by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon - she says it's something she would like to have done earlier in her career but "I didn't have enough influence in the band." Some songs, like "In My Dreams" & "Too Deep", were already written at the 4 Non Blondes-time but they never recorded the songs.
- "Knock Me Out" was featured on the soundtrack of the film The Crow: City of Angels.
Personnel
- Linda Perry – guitars, piano, bass
- Bill Bottrell – guitars, bass, drums
- Kevin Gilbert – keyboards, guitars
- Dan Schwartz – bass, steel guitar
- Brian MacLeod – drums, percussion
- Lisa Germano – violin (appears courtesy of 4AD Records)
Additional Personnel
- Grace Slick – vocals on "Knock Me Out"
Production
- Bill Bottrell – producer
- Linda Perry – co-producer
- Blair Lamb and Mark Cross – engineers
- Recorded at Toad Hall
- Mastered by Joe Gastwirt
- Tom Whalley – A&R direction
- Jill Rose – project coordination
References
- ↑ Allmusic review
- ↑ The A.V. Club review
- ↑ Chicago Tribune review
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- ↑ Los Angeles Times review
- ↑ People review
- ↑ Album reviews at CD Universe
- ↑ Robert Christgau review