Released October 22, 2001 Genre Alternative rock Label MCA | Recorded 2000–2001 Length 39:24 Producer Stephen Street | |
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is the fifth studio album by The Cranberries. Released on October 22, 2001, the album has sold 170,000 copies in the US as of April 2007. Worldwide, the album sold 1,300,000 copies by 2002.
Contents
This marks the band's only album on MCA Records. They were transferred to MCA after the merger of PolyGram (which owned their previous label, Island Records) with MCA's parent Universal Music Group in 1999.
Track listing
All lyrics written by Dolores O'Riordan; all music composed by O'Riordan except where noted.
Personnel
Artwork
Designer Storm Thorgerson, who also designed the cover of their previous album, Bury the Hatchet., said: "The idea of red balls came from granules of coffee percolating the atmosphere, settling in your nose and waking you up. These became red (cranberries) and then enlarged to gym balls to satisfy our rampant egos. The location changed from an interior to an open space. Because this idea was preposterous, it needed testing before we did the proper thing on a beach in Somerset. The test… was done on a small grass aerodrome near London."
The version of the artwork featuring a man in bed on the beach is clearly indebted to another Thorgerson creation: Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason.