Bleeding Heart Graffiti

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Bleeding Heart Graffiti
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 8, 2006
Recorded2005
Genre Rock
Length47:35
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Bob Rock
Nina Gordon chronology
Tonight and the Rest of My Life
(2000)
Bleeding Heart Graffiti
(2006)
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Bleeding Heart Graffiti is the second album from Nina Gordon and marks her third album produced by Bob Rock. It peaked at #30 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers Album chart. Nine of the songs on the album are re-recorded tracks from Nina's self-shelved Even the Sunbeams album. The Time Comes was featured in the Bones episode The Priest in the Churchyard. [11]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Bleeding Heart Graffiti" (Gordon) – 0:42
  2. "Christmas Lights" (Gordon) – 5:13
  3. "Kiss Me 'Til It Bleeds" (Gordon, Russo, Jaye) – 4:09
  4. "Suffragette" (Gordon, S. Melvoin, W. Melvoin) – 3:37
  5. "This Was the Year" (Gordon) – 0:32
  6. "Don't Let Me Down" (Gordon) – 4:14
  7. "Pure" (Gordon) – 4:29
  8. "Watercolors" (Gordon) – 3:25
  9. "Superstar" (Gordon) – 3:15
  10. "Turn on Your Radio" (Gordon) – 4:05
  11. "When You Don't Want Me Anymore" (Gordon) – 4:03
  12. "Bones and a Name" (Gordon) – 4:55
  13. "The Time Comes" (Gordon) – 4:19
  14. "The Crickets Sound Like Sleigh Bells" (Gordon) – 0:37
  15. "Tonight and the Rest of My Life [Acoustic Version](iTunes Bonus)" (Gordon) – 4:40

Personnel

Singles

YearSingle
2006Kiss Me 'Til It Bleeds

Non-album tracks

The only known b-side from this recording session is The Blue Hour, which has yet to get an official release, but was leaked to the Internet. Nina also put the demos for A Different Song, Down and Dirty and Someday Is Too Far Away on her official site, which are from this album's recording sessions.

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