My Favourite Headache

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My Favourite Headache
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Studio album by
Geddy Lee
ReleasedNovember 14, 2000
RecordedApril 2000 [1]
StudioThe Peasant's Tent and Reaction Studios, Toronto,
East and West and The Factory Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Studio X, Seattle, Washington, Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario
Genre Alternative rock, hard rock
Length48:06
Label Anthem, Atlantic
Producer
Geddy Lee chronology
My Favourite Headache
(2000)		The Lost Demos
(2023)
Singles from My Favourite Headache
  1. "My Favourite Headache"
    Released: November 2000
  2. "Grace to Grace"
    Released: February 2001
  3. "Home on the Strange"
    Released: 2001

My Favourite Headache (also published as My Favorite Headache, especially in the United States) is the debut solo album by Geddy Lee of Canadian rock band Rush. The album was released on November 14, 2000, by Anthem Records in Canada and Atlantic Records outside of Canada. Both the title track and "Grace to Grace" received play on mainstream rock radio.

Contents

Background

Although Lee wrote the majority of the album on bass, he was not just writing melody lines; he was also playing chords. In some cases, he multi-tracked basses into different layers of the arrangements. [2]

Lee said of the album: "I think I backed into this project. I've never had a great desire to make an individual statement, and I certainly didn't want any more attention. I satisfy so much of my musical self in the context of Rush, so I don't have any great frustrations from that point of view. But once in a while, you'd wonder, 'What's it like out there? What's it like to work with other people?'". [2]

Lee explaining how he wrote the lyrics for My Favourite Headache: "Most people are like this: They think of stuff during the day. The mind goes to certain places, they remember things, and they try to figure things out. To remind yourself to write that stuff down is a great benefit. Then you come back to it and you analyze it days later, and lyrically shape what you felt when you wrote it down. For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song." [2]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 58/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Classic Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Daily VaultA [6]
The Essential Rock Discography 5/10 [7]

Commercial performance

My Favourite Headache peaked at No. 52 on the Billboard 200. [8] The album also reached No. 10 on Canada's Metal Albums chart. [9]

Track listing

All lyrics by Geddy Lee, all music by Lee and Ben Mink.

No.TitleLength
1."My Favourite Headache"4:45
2."The Present Tense"3:25
3."Window to the World"3:02
4."Working at Perfekt"5:00
5."Runaway Train"4:30
6."The Angels' Share"4:33
7."Moving to Bohemia"4:25
8."Home on the Strange"3:46
9."Slipping"5:06
10."Still"4:30
11."Grace to Grace"4:59

Personnel

Personnel per booklet. [10]

Musicians

Production

References

  1. ↑ Lee, Geddy (2023). My Effin' Life (1st ed.). HarperCollins. p. 409. ISBN   978-0-06-315941-9.
  2. 1 2 3 Giles, Jeff (November 14, 2015). "When Geddy Lee Went Solo with 'My Favorite Headache'". ultimateclassicrock.com. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  3. ↑ "My Favorite Headache". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ↑ Prato, Greg. "Geddy Lee - My Favorite Headache review". AllMusic . Rovi . Retrieved 2014-06-29.
  5. ↑ "Geddy Lee: My Favourite Headache album review". Classic Rock . November 23, 2020. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
  6. ↑ Rusk, Bruce (2019). "The Daily Vault Music Reviews : My Favourite Headache". dailyvault.com. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  7. ↑ Strong, Martin Charles (2006). "Rush". The Essential Rock Discography (8th ed.). Open City Books. p. 938–939. ISBN   1-84195-860-3.
  8. ↑ "My Favorite Headache Billboard Albums". AllMusic . Rovi . Retrieved 2014-06-29.
  9. ↑ "METAL : Top 50".
  10. ↑ My Favourite Headache (booklet). Geddy Lee. Anthem Records. 2000.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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