Ejector Seat Reservation | ||||
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Released | 15 July 1995 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, indie rock | |||
Length | 45:31 | |||
Label | Creation [1] | |||
Producer | Alan Moulder, Swervedriver [2] | |||
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AllMusic | [3] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
Ejector Seat Reservation is the third studio album by the British alternative rock band Swervedriver, released in 1995. [5] [6] The album includes three untitled hidden tracks which were only available in the United Kingdom.
Trouser Press called Ejector Seat Reservation "one of the most quietly ambitious records" of the 1990s, praising the "more tempered, classic-pop format." [7] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called it the band's best album. [2] Billboard called it one "of the more compelling guitar-pop albums of the mid-'90s." [8]
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The bonus track, "It's All Happening Now", on the first UK promo was shelved (given away to fan club members) after permission was denied to use lyrics lifted from Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". Sony BMG reissued the album in 2008 in the UK as a "Remastered and Expanded" edition with four bonus tracks
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