Released 8 September 1997 Artist Cornershop Label Warner Bros. Records | Length 54:12 Release date 8 September 1997 | |
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Studio 657 Holloway Road, London
Eastcote Studios, London
Sun Plantation, San Francisco
West Orange Studios, Preston, Lancashire When I Was Born for the 7th Time
(1997) Handcream for a Generation
(2002) Genres Rock music, Indie rock, Electronica, Raga rock Producers Tjinder Singh, Dan the Automator Similar Cornershop albums, Electronica albums | ||
Cornershop sleep on the left side
When I Was Born for the 7th Time is the third studio album by the British indie rock band Cornershop, released on 8 September 1997 by Wiiija. The album received high acclaim from music critics and features the international hit single "Brimful of Asha".
Contents
Sleep on the left side cornershop
Recording and release
When I Was Born for the 7th Time was recorded over a period of approximately two months. Singer and guitarist Tjinder Singh described the recording process as "very intense. There was a lot of smoking going on, it was a very relaxed time, and very enjoyable all the way through. At the end, our engineer had to go for medical assistance. He got freaked out. He smoked so much and then he stopped and he went loopy. He was on medication. His body couldn't take it." The album was released on September 8, 1997 by the independent record label Wiiija. The song "Brimful of Asha" was released as a single and became an international hit. The track "Candyman" was used in a Nike commercial featuring LeBron James, while "Good Shit" was featured in a commercial for Target with the chorus being altered to read "Good Stuff..."; in the single release and in the video played on MTV Europe the title was "Good Ships". As of February 2002, the album has sold 198,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Critical reception
When I Was Born for the 7th Time received high acclaim from music critics. Writing for Rolling Stone, Neva Chonin opined that the album "is a cohesive, finely crafted LP in which the last album's low-fi funk expands into low, fat grooves, and Singh's pancultural, anti-racist lyrics become more sophisticated but no less impassioned." In 1998, the album was ranked at number three in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1997. Similarly, Spin journalists placed the album at number one in their list of Top 20 Albums of the Year. In 2000, Q magazine placed the album at number 68 in its list of 100 Greatest British Albums. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Track listing
All tracks written by Tjinder Singh unless otherwise noted.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's album notes.
Songs
1Sleep on the Left Side4:06
2Brimful of Asha5:17
3Butter the Soul3:19