Disconnect (Rollins Band song)

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"Disconnect"
Rollins Band - Disconnect 1.jpg
Single by Rollins Band
from the album Weight
B-side "Miles Jam"
Released1994 (1994)
Studio American Recording / Rumbo Recorders / The Grey Room
(Los Angeles)
Genre Alternative metal
Length4:58
Label Imago
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Theo Van Rock
Rollins Band singles chronology
"Liar"
(1994)
"Disconnect"
(1994)
"The End of Something"
(1997)
Alternative cover
Rollins Band - Disconnect 2.jpg
1994 CD cover

"Disconnect" is a song by Rollins Band. It is the second single released in support of their fourth album Weight . [1]

Contents

Formats and track listing

All songs written by Sim Cain, Melvin Gibbs, Chris Haskett and Henry Rollins

US 7" single
  1. "Disconnect" – 4:31
  2. "Disconnect" (Edit) – 4:57
US CS single (72787-25084)
  1. "Disconnect" (Edit) – 4:32
  2. "Miles Jam" – 6:15
US CD single (72787-25078)
  1. "Disconnect" (Edit) – 4:31
  2. "Plague" – 4:29
  3. "Miles Jam" – 6:15
Australian CD single (72787250892)
  1. "Disconnect" – 4:32
  2. "Right Here Too Much" – 4:41
  3. "Night Sweat" – 5:15
  4. "Night Sweat" – 4:29
  5. "Plague" – 6:15

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC) [2] 27

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
Australia1994 Imago CD 72787 25089
Europe72787 25078
VHS
United StatesCD72787 25084
DMD 1795
CS 72787-25084
7"

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References

  1. Huey, Steve. "Rollins Band > Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  2. "Rollins Band: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 5, 2020.