Coming Up Roses (song)

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"Coming Up Roses"
Curve-Coming Up Roses.jpg
Single by Curve
from the album Come Clean
B-side "Midnight & Royal", "Habit"
Released4 May 1998
Recorded1997
Genre Alternative rock
Length3:51 (only the title song)
20:57 (the whole CD 1)
Label Estupendo/Universal Music International
Songwriter(s) Dean Garcia, Toni Halliday
Producer(s) Steve Osborne, Curve
Curve singles chronology
"'Chinese Burn'"
(1997)
"Coming Up Roses"
(1998)
"'Perish'"
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Melody Maker (negative) [1]
NME (negative) [2]

"Coming Up Roses" is the second single from the third studio album Come Clean by alternative rock band Curve. It was released on 4 May 1998 [3] and it reached #51 in the UK singles chart. [4]

Contents

The Kevin Shields mix of this song was included on the disc 2 of Curve's compilation The Way of Curve .

Track listing

CD 1

  1. "Coming Up Roses" (Jeremy Wheatley's Radio mix) – 3:51
  2. "Coming Up Roses" (Talvin Singh remix) – 8:09
  3. "Midnight & Royal" – 4:45
  4. "Habit" – 4:12

CD 2

  1. "Coming Up Roses" (Jeremy Wheatley's Full mix) – 4:00
  2. "Coming Up Roses" (Blue Amazon's Crystaline Vocal mix) – 6:01
  3. "Coming Up Roses" (Red Star Yellow Star mix) – 9:06
  4. "Coming Up Roses" (Danny Saber Full Length mix) – 5:21
  5. "Coming Up Roses" (Kevin Shields mix) – 6:20

12"

  1. "Coming Up Roses" (Blue Amazon's Crystaline Vocal mix) – 6:01
  2. "Coming Up Roses" (Blue Amazon's Quad Club mix) – 10:45
  3. "Coming Up Roses" (Jeremy Wheatley's Full mix) – 4:00
  4. "Coming Up Roses" (Talvin Singh remix) – 8:09

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References

  1. "Curve : Coming Up Roses review - Melody Maker".
  2. "Curve : Coming Up Roses review - NME".
  3. "Curve : Coming Up Roses".
  4. "Official Charts".