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Grow Up and Blow Away

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Released
  
June 26, 2007

Length
  
39:10

Artist
  
Metric

Producer
  
James Shaw

Genres
  
Indie rock, New wave

Recorded
  
2001

Grow Up and Blow Away (2007)
  
Fantasies (2009)

Release date
  
26 June 2007

Label
  
Last Gang Records

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Similar
  
Metric albums, Indie rock albums

Grow Up and Blow Away was the first recorded album by indie rock band Metric. The album was recorded in 2001, but delayed for years by their record label.

Contents

As the years passed, the band's sound changed to the point where they no longer felt the album would be what the fans expected to hear, so Metric recorded a completely new album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, and released that instead. Last Gang Records later purchased the rights to the album and released it on June 26, 2007.

Compared with the 2001 version, the songs "London Halflife" and "Soft Rock Star" (Jimmy vs. Joe mix) from the 2001 EP Static Anonymity were added "Torture Me", "Fanfare", and "Parkdale" were removed. Also the order of some songs was changed and other songs (like the title track and "Rock Me Now") were slightly re-worked.

The album's title song (with the lyrics "die today" changed to "fly today") was used in a television commercial in North America for Polaroid Corporation's I-Zone Sticky Film in 2000-01.

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Track listing for 2007 release

All songs written, performed and recorded by Emily Haines and James Shaw.

  1. "Grow Up and Blow Away" - 4:13
  2. "Hardwire" - 4:41
  3. "Rock Me Now" - 3:51
  4. "The Twist" - 3:36
  5. "On the Sly" - 3:58
  6. "Soft Rock Star" - 4:00
  7. "Raw Sugar" - 3:38
  8. "White Gold" - 4:09
  9. "London Halflife" - 2:41 (originally from the Static Anonymity EP)
  10. "Soft Rock Star" (Jimmy vs. Joe mix) - 4:23 (originally from the Static Anonymity EP)

"Torture Me", "Parkdale", and "Fanfare" were never re-released.

Track listing for 2001 version (never officially released)

All songs written, performed and recorded by Emily Haines and James Shaw.

  1. "Grow Up and Blow Away" - 4:25
  2. "On the Sly" - 4:01
  3. "Torture Me" - 3:51
  4. "Fanfare" - 0:24
  5. "Parkdale" - 4:53
  6. "Raw Sugar" - 3:47
  7. "The Twist" - 3:38
  8. "Rock Me Now" - 4:14
  9. "Soft Rock Star" - 4:00
  10. "White Gold" - 4:09
  11. "Hardwire" - 4:42

Songs

1Grow Up and Blow Away4:13
2Hardwire4:42
3Rock Me Now3:52

References

Grow Up and Blow Away Wikipedia
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