I'll Tell You What Man...

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I'll Tell You What Man...
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Studio album by The Clarks
Released June 1988 (1988-06)
Genre Rock
Length38:43
Label King Mouse Records
The Clarks chronology
I'll Tell You What Man...
(1988)
The Clarks
(1991)
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I'll Tell You What Man... is the 1988 debut album by Pittsburgh band the Clarks. The album was the band's first release, created while the musicians were still in college at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The fast-paced song "Help Me Out" gained some airplay on Western Pennsylvania college radio stations, but at this point, the Clarks had yet to achieve success.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 13 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Pittsburgh City in western Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. As of 2018, a population of 308,144 lives within the city limits, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S. The metropolitan population of 2,362,453, is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 26th-largest in the U.S.

The Clarks are an American rock band from the Pittsburgh region, originating at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Over the course of thirty-plus years, they have produced eleven studio albums, two live albums, a compilation album, an EP, and four solo releases, selling near a quarter of a million copies.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Hesitating"
  2. "Perfection Not Required"
  3. "In the End"
  4. "Let Me Die"
  5. "Pretty as You Please"
  6. "Help Me Out"
  7. "On My Way Back Home"
  8. "I'm the Only"
  9. "All That Much"
  10. "Hear It from You"
  11. "Today"

Personnel

Scott Blasey is an American rock musician best known as the lead vocalist for the Clarks, a position he has held since the band's inception in the mid-1980s. Aside from the Clarks, he also has a successful solo career, and three studio albums have been credited to him.

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