Goodbye (Dubstar album)

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Goodbye
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Studio album by
Released22 September 1997
Genre Synthpop
Label Food
Producer Stephen Hague
Dubstar chronology
Disgraceful
(1995)
Goodbye
(1997)
Make It Better
(2000)
Alternative cover
Goodbye (Dubstar) Japanese cover.jpg
Japanese cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Goodbye is Dubstar's second album. It was released in September 1997 on the Food Records label, a division of EMI that was also home to Blur.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Hillier except where noted.

  1. "I Will Be Your Girlfriend" (Hillier, Chris Wilkie) - 3:37
  2. "Inside" - 3:44
  3. "No More Talk" - 3:39
  4. "Polestar" - 3:40
  5. "Say the Worst Thing First" - 4:07
  6. "Cathedral Park" - 3:14
  7. "It's Over" - 4:18
  8. "The View From Here" - 3:42
  9. "My Start in Wallsend" - 4:29
  10. "It's Clear" (Hillier, Wilkie) - 2:22
  11. "Ghost" - 3:36
  12. "Can't Tell Me" - 3:21
  13. "Wearchest" (Hillier, Wilkie) - 3:15
  14. "When You Say Goodbye" (Sarah Blackwood, Hillier, Wilkie) - 3:14
  15. "Let's Go" - 4:20

Japan bonus tracks

The Japanese release includes the B-sides from lead single "No More Talk" as bonus tracks.

Personnel

Additional personnel

U.S. release

Goodbye was the band's first album released in the U.S. For this American edition, six songs were removed from the UK version and replaced with tracks from their previous UK release, Disgraceful. The rearranged track listing includes "Stars" and "Not So Manic Now," the most popular singles from Disgraceful, as well as some of their remixes.

All songs written by Steve Hillier except where otherwise noted. Songs not on UK release are noted in italics.

  1. "Stars"
  2. "Inside"
  3. "Cathedral Park"
  4. "Just a Girl She Said" (Sarah Blackwood, Steve Hillier, Chris Wilkie)
  5. "The View From Here"
  6. "It's Clear" (Hillier, Wilkie)
  7. "No More Talk"
  8. "Anywhere" (Hillier, Wilkie)
  9. "Ghost"
  10. "Can't Tell Me" (Wilkie)
  11. "I Will Be Your Girlfriend" (Hillier, Wilkie)
  12. "Wearchest" (Hillier, Wilkie)
  13. "St. Swithin's Day" (Billy Bragg)
  14. "Not So Manic Now" (Dave Harling, Jon Kirby, Martin Mason, Graeme Robinson)
  15. "Stars" (Motiv 8 mix)
  16. "Not So Manic Now" (Way Out West mix)
  17. "Stars" (Way Out West mix)

Singles

The following singles were released from the album, in order of release date. All songs written by Steve Hillier except where otherwise noted:

  • CD 1
  1. "Unchained Monologue" (Hillier/Wilkie)
  2. "La Boheme" (Charles Aznavour)
  3. "Goodbye" (Blackwood/Hillier/Wilkie)
  • CD 2
  1. "Stars" (acoustic) (Hillier)
  2. "Elevator song" (acoustic) (Hillier)
  3. "Not Once Not Ever" (acoustic) (Hillier)
  1. "Let Down" (Wilkie)
  2. "This Is My Home" (Hillier)
  3. "In My Defence" (Hillier)
  1. "Not So Manic Now" (Dave Harling, Jon Kirby, Martin Mason, Graeme Robinson)
  2. "Stars" (Hillier)
  3. "Anywhere" (Hillier/Wilkie)

All songs are identical to the versions previously released as singles and on the album Disgraceful .

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