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Ideas Above Our Station | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 20 May 2002 | |||
Recorded | Magic Shop, New York City
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Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 38:41 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Dave Sardy | |||
Hundred Reasons chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Drowned in Sound | [2] |
entertainment.ie | [3] |
NME | [4] |
The Guardian | [5] |
Ideas Above Our Station is the first studio album by the English alternative rock band, Hundred Reasons, released on 20 May 2002 on Columbia Records. The album reached number 6 in the UK Albums Chart and is the band's most commercially successful album to date.[ citation needed ]
In 2012, the band got together after a three-year break to celebrate the album's ten-year anniversary. [6]
The album cover art is a stylised photograph of the Lloyd's Building in London.
Chart (2002) | Peak position |
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UK Albums (OCC) [7] | 6 |
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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2001 | "I'll Find You" | UK Singles Chart | 37 |
2002 | "If I Could" | UK Singles Chart | 19 |
2002 | "Silver" | UK Singles Chart | 15 |
2002 | "Falter" | UK Singles Chart | 38 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI) [8] | Gold | 100,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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