Skydiggers (album)

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Skydiggers
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Studio album by
Released1990
RecordedPhase One Toronto
Genre Folk rock [1]
Label Enigma, Capitol
Producer Skydiggers, Andrew Scarth
Skydiggers chronology
Skydiggers
(1990)
Restless
(1992)

Skydiggers is the debut album by the Canadian band Skydiggers, released in 1990. [1] [2]

Contents

The album's most successful single was "I Will Give You Everything".

Critical reception

The Edmonton Journal opined that "the blandness of the lead vocal and the low-level drone of careful, undynamic tempos incites only one reaction—irritation." [3]

Track listing

  1. "Monday Morning" (P.Cash/Finlayson/Macey/Maize/Stokes) – 2:26
  2. "At 24" (P.Cash) – 2:27
  3. "Maybe It's Just Not Good Enough" (P.Cash/Finlayson/Maize/Macey/Stokes) – 4:02
  4. "Baby Make a Grab" (Finlayson/Maize) – 2:54
  5. "I Will Give You Everything" (Finlayson/Maize) – 3:56
  6. "Leslie" (Finlayson/Maize/Stokes) – 2:25
  7. "We Don't Talk Much Anymore" (P. Cash) – 2:12
  8. "I'll Be Home" (P.Cash) – 3:04
  9. "Too Bad You Say It's Over" (Archibald/Finlayson/Maize/Stokes) – 2:24
  10. "Some Say" (P.Cash) – 3:36
  11. "What Can I Say" (P.Cash) – 3:39
  12. "No One Could" (P.Cash) – 3:05

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References

  1. 1 2 Potter, Mitch (16 Jan 1990). "Here are the shapes of sounds to come". Toronto Star. p. C1.
  2. "Skydiggers Skydiggers". Sound & Vision. Vol. 6, no. 2. Mar–Apr 1990. pp. 69–70.
  3. Metella, Helen (18 Mar 1990). "Skydiggers". Edmonton Journal. p. D5.