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In Flight (Linda Perry album)

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Length
  
58:18

Artists
  
Linda Perry, Denny Laine

Label
  
Breakaway

In Flight (1996)
  
After Hours (1999)

Release date
  
1984

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Released
  
Sept. 16, 1996 (original) Oct. 11, 2005 (re-release)

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Blues rock

Producers
  
Bill Bottrell, Linda Perry

Alternative rock albums
  
After Hours, Bigger - Better - Faster - M, 8 Songs About a Girl, Love Angel Music Ba, America's Sweetheart

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

  1. "In My Dreams" – 5:26
  2. "Freeway" – 5:54
  3. "Uninvited" – 4:24
  4. "Success" (Bill Bottrell, Perry) – 5:25
  5. "Life In A Bottle" – 4:21
  6. "Fill Me Up" – 5:00
  7. "Knock Me Out" (Perry, Marty Willson-Piper, Grace Slick) – 6:50
  8. "Too Deep" – 5:37
  9. "Taken" – 3:38
  10. "Fruitloop Daydream" (Perry, Bottrell, Brian MacLeod, Kevin Gilbert, Dan Schwartz) – 3:15
  11. "Machine Man" (Perry, MacLeod, Gilbert, Schwartz) – 3:20
  12. "In Flight" – 5:03

Re-Release Music Videos

  1. "Fill Me Up" (Music Video) - 4:44
  2. "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

    • Songs

    1Somebody Ough to Know the WayPaul McCartney3:15
    2Lover's LightPaul McCartney2:30
    3Guess I'm Only Foolin'Paul McCartney2:30

    References

    In Flight (Linda Perry album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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