I Don't Want to Save the World

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I Don't Want to Save the World
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Studio album by
Cock Robin
Released2006
RecordedRevolver Studios, Thousand Oaks, California
East Iris Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Wire, Austin, Texas
Studio Mega, Paris, France
Genre Pop rock
Length54:01
Label 31 Production Edition
Producer Theron Carroll for Mikal Blue Productions
Cock Robin chronology
First Love / Last Rites
(1989)
I Don't Want to Save the World
(2006)
Songs From A Bell Tower
(2010)

I Don't Want to Save the World is the fourth album by Cock Robin and was released in 2006. It sees the reformation of the band after a 16-year hiatus. It features a selection of their trademark harmonic pop. The lyrics seem to be greatly influenced by personal relations and experiences spent since the last time the duo of Kingsbery and LaCazio shared a pop group. [1] An example of this is "Italian Soul", which may be a take upon the consequences of meeting and working together after a long time apart (Anna LaCazio is of mixed Italian-Chinese descent). Apart from a few TV appearances in 2006, mainly in France, the album was not widely promoted.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Superhuman" – 4:32
  2. "I Don't Want to Save the World" – 4:01
  3. "Fair Enough" – 4:11
  4. "Across the Freeway" – 4:28
  5. "Touched" – 3:27
  6. "Body Over Mind" – 3:48
  7. "Bo" – 3:21
  8. "Through the Years" – 4:59
  9. "Italian Soul" – 4:22
  10. "The Valley Below" – 4:29
  11. "Dominoes" – 3:52
  12. "Me and My Shaman" – 4:22
  13. "Under the Star Which I Was Born" – 3:33

All songs by Peter Kingsbery except Italian Soul (LaCazio/Kingsbery/Wright), The Valley Below (Wright/Kingsbery) and Under The Star Which I Was Born (Polnareff/Kingsbery). This last song is a cover version of French singer-songwriter Michel Polnareff's song "Sous quelle étoile suis-je né ?"

Musicians

Cock Robin

Additional musicians

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