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Released
  
18 September 2011

Length
  
37:45

Release date
  
18 September 2011

Label
  
Cooking Vinyl

Recorded
  
2010

Artist
  
The Subways

Producer
  
Stephen Street

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Genres
  
Indie rock, Alternative rock, Pop rock, Post-grunge, Post-punk revival

Alternative rock albums
  
A New Morning, Broken Boy Soldiers, Head Music, Major/Minor, Consolers of the Lonely

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Money and Celebrity is the third studio album by English rock trio The Subways, produced by Stephen Street. It was released on 18 September 2011. The making of the album was fan funded with fans pledging on exclusive offers made by the band through their PledgeMusic campaign. A percentage of money made was donated to charity (Clic Sargent) and the online updates meant the band discussed artwork designs and tracks directly with their fans as the album was put together. Pledges included "Gold passes" to every show the band played, exclusive acoustic performances, signed lyric sheets, limited run T-shirt designs and many more. The album was then licensed to Warner for Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland and Japan and label services provided by Cooking Vinyl for the UK and ROW.

Contents

The subways we dont need money to have a good time lyrics


Singles

  • "It's a Party" was released on the Subways official website as the first preview of the album.
  • "We Don't Need Money To Have A Good Time" was released as the first single from the album on 11 September 2011. Although the song failed to chart, it spent many weeks on the A-list for BBC Radio 1 and received considerable airplay as a result.
  • "It's a Party" was released as an official single on 2 January 2012 and B-listed by BBC Radio 1 .
  • "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" was released on 7 May 2012 as the third single from the album.

    • Track listing

    All tracks written by Billy Lunn & The Subways.

    All tracks written by Billy Lunn.

    History

    During the period between the previous album All Or Nothing and the current one, the band created around 50 songs and decided against using them for the latest installment. Billy began writing for the album when he and some friends of his went to a local pub, they had just lost their jobs due to the current climate in the economy. Whilst they were drinking Billy found that he had no more money left for drinks and one of his friends said "Billy, we don't need money to have a good time" and from there Billy ran home and for the first time wrote the lyrics to a song before the music. From 12 September 2011, NME Magazine began streaming the album in its entirety. On 15 September, the band let PledgeMusic customers download their version of the album, posing the question of which track was to be the next single from the LP.

    Charts

    Upon release, the album reached #43 in the UK Albums Chart and #16 in Germany's official charts, the Media Control Charts.

    Personnel

  • The Subways — Music on all tracks
  • Billy Lunn — Guitar, vocals, lyrics on all tracks except for track 4
  • Charlotte Cooper — Bass, vocals
  • Josh Morgan — Drums
  • Stephen Street — Mixed and Produced all of the album except for track 2
  • Adrian Bushby - Mixed and Produced track 2 (We Don't Need Money To Have A Good Time)
  • Jason Perry and Daniel P. Carter;— Co-songwriters on track four.

    • Songs

    It’s a Party3:26
    We Don’t Need Money to Have a Good Time3:13
    Celebrity3:24

    References

    Money and Celebrity Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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