Reasons to Stay Indoors

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Reasons to Stay Indoors
Savoy - Reasons to Stay Indoors.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 8, 2001
Recorded2000-01
Genre Rock
Length73 min. (total of both discs)
Label EMI Norsk
Producer Lauren & Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
Michael Ilbert
Savoy chronology
Mountains of Time
(1999)
Reasons to Stay Indoors
(2001)
Savoy
(2004)

Reasons to Stay Indoors is the fourth album from the Norwegian group Savoy, released Monday, October 8, 2001 in Norway and on February 25, 2002, in Sweden. As with Mountains of Time, a limited edition was released that included a CD bonus with five otherwise unavailable bonus tracks.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Reasons to Stay Indoors"
  2. "You Won't Come to the Party"
  3. "Face"
  4. "Half of the Time"
  5. "Once Upon a Year"
  6. "Fearlist"
  7. "I Wouldn't Change a Thing"
  8. "Paramount"
  9. "The One That Got Away"
  10. "Against the Sun"
  11. "Five Million Years"
  12. "Overgrown"

Bonus disc

  1. "You Should Have Told Me" (alternate version)
  2. "I Wouldn't Change a Thing" (alternate version)
  3. "Totally Hide"
  4. "Once Upon a Year" (alternate version)
  5. "D.A.R.

Personnel

All songs written by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and Lauren Savoy. Produced by Savoy and Michael Ilbert. [1]

Charts

Chart (2001)Peak
position
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [2] 8

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References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 13, 2005. Retrieved 2008-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Norwegiancharts.com – Savoy – Reasons to Stay Indoors". Hung Medien.