Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue

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Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 9, 2012 (2012-10-09)
Studio Noble Street Studios (Toronto, Ontario)
Genre Hard rock
Length48:13
Label Bad Taste Records
Producer Matt DeMatteo
Danko Jones chronology
Below the Belt
(2010)
Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue
(2012)
Garage Rock! – A Collection of Lost Songs from 1996–1998
(2014)

Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue is the sixth studio album by Canadian hard rock band Danko Jones. It was released on October 9, 2012. [1] The song "Just a Beautiful Day" reached No. 10 on the Canadian rock/alternative chart. [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Terrified" – 3:26
  2. "Get Up" – 3:09
  3. "Legs" – 3:37
  4. "Just a Beautiful Day" – 3:15
  5. "I Don't Care" – 3:20
  6. "You Wear Me Down" – 3:55
  7. "Type of Girl" – 3:46
  8. "Always Away" – 4:12
  9. "Conceited" – 3:47
  10. "Don't Do This" – 3:42
  11. "The Masochist" – 2:53
  12. "I Believed in God" – 3:59
  13. "I Believed in God (Reprise)" – 0:46 [1]
  14. "In Your Arms" – 4:26

Deluxe version

  1. "Crazy in Bed" (bonus track) – 4:03

Spotify exclusive version

  1. "Whatever Happens" (bonus track) – 3:34

Charts

Chart performance for Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue
Chart (2012)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [5] 52
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [6] 85
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [7] 143
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [8] 18
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [9] 43
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [10] 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [11] 70

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