Glamourpuss (album)

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Glamourpuss
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Released1993
Recorded1993
Genre Rock, alternative rock
Length39:53
Label Columbia
Producer Flemming Rasmussen and Sort Sol
Sort Sol chronology
Flow My Firetear
(1991)
Glamourpuss
(1993)
Unspoiled Monsters
(1996)

Glamourpuss is the sixth album by the Danish rock band Sort Sol and the fourth after the renaming from the earlier name Sods. [1] It is their most commercially successful to date, and includes their biggest hit "Let Your Fingers Do The Walking". It is also the last to be recorded with the original member Peter Peter, who left the band after touring in support of the album.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Dog Star Man" - 4:09 (Odde/Ortved, PP, S. Jørgensen, T. Tholstoy, Top-Galia)
  2. "Popcorn" - 4:19 (S. Jørgensen/Odde, Ortved, PP, Top-Galia)
  3. "Let Your Fingers Do The Walking" - 4:40 (S. Jørgensen/Top-Galia)
  4. "Sleepwalker" - 3:41 (Odde/Klavs K, Ortved, PP)
  5. "Shaheeba Bay" - 4:03 (Odde/Odde, Ortved, S. Jørgensen, Top-Galia)
  6. "Written in the Wind" - 5:11 (Odde)
  7. "Eileen Alphabet" - 2:10 (Odde/Odde, PP)
  8. "Bangalore Flow" - 7:37 (S. Jørgensen/Top-Galia)
  9. "Lady of the Lake" - 4:08 (Odde/Odde, PP)

Personnel

Sort Sol
Additional musicians and production

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References

  1. Sort Sol - Glamourpuss Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic , retrieved 2023-06-04