Released 19 October 1998 Producer Paul Tipler Release date 19 October 1998 | Length 35:48 Artist Idlewild Label EMI Music Japan | |
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Recorded Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire
Westland Studios, Dublin Hope Is Important
(1998) 100 Broken Windows
(2000) Genres Rock music, Punk rock, Grunge Similar Idlewild albums, Rock music albums | ||
Idlewild you ve lost your way
Hope Is Important is the first full-length studio album by Scottish rock band Idlewild, released 19 October 1998. The record follows on from their earlier six-track release, Captain.
Contents
In an 2007 interview, Roddy Woomble states that the band were:
one of the last of those sort of groups, I suppose, that weren’t totally judged on their first album. Which is just as well, as that record is messy and it’s noisy… yeah, I mean Hope Is Important. It’s a band trying to discover what they want to sound like, and if that record came out now it’d either be massive or totally ignored. Thankfully there were bits in the songs that had people thinking we could be better, and that we could evolve.
The album was played in full on 17 December 2008 at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow.
Track listing
- "You've Lost Your Way" – 1:30
- "A Film for the Future" – 3:28
- "Paint Nothing" – 3:12
- "When I Argue I See Shapes" – 4:26
- "4 People Do Good" – 2:00
- "I'm Happy to Be Here Tonight" – 3:11
- "Everyone Says You're So Fragile" – 2:18
- "I'm a Message" – 2:28
- "You Don't Have the Heart" – 2:08
- "Close the Door" – 2:20
- "Safe and Sound" – 3:15
- "Low Light" – 5:32
Personnel
Songs
1You've Lost Your Way1:30
2A Film for the Future3:29
3Paint Nothing3:12