Greetings from Timbuk3

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Greetings from Timbuk3
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1986
StudioDustbowl Studios (Hollywood, California)
*except "Hairstyles and Attitudes" at Lone Star Studios (Austin, Texas)
Genre Rock
Length36:05
Label I.R.S. [1]
Producer Dennis Herring [2]
Timbuk 3 chronology
Greetings from Timbuk3
(1986)
Eden Alley
(1988)
Singles from Greetings from Timbuk3
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Robert Christgau A− [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]

Greetings from Timbuk3 is the debut album by American band Timbuk 3, released in 1986. [7] [8] The album contains their only charting single, "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades", which reached number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Contents

The songs "Life Is Hard" and "Shame on You" were used in the 1986 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and were included on the film's accompanying soundtrack album.[ citation needed ]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called Greetings from Timbuk3 "surely one of the darkest albums ever to have yielded a hit single." [9]

Track listing

All songs written by Pat MacDonald, except where noted. Copyright Mamdadaddi Music/I.R.S. Music, Inc. admin. by Atlantic Music. (All Songs BMI).

  1. "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" – 3:21
  2. "Life Is Hard" – 4:08
  3. "Hairstyles and Attitudes" – 2:51
  4. "Facts About Cats" – 3:16
  5. "I Need You" – 3:50
  6. "Just Another Movie" – 4:16
  7. "Friction" – 3:44
  8. "Cheap Black & White" – 2:54
  9. "Shame On You" – 5:04 (Barbara K. MacDonald, Pat MacDonald)
  10. "I Love You in the Strangest Way" – 2:41

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart performance for Greetings from Timbuk3
Chart (1986)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [10] 86
UK Albums Chart [11] 51
US Billboard 200 [12] 50

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