Standing Room Only (The Motels album)

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Standing Room Only
The motels Standing-cd.jpg
Live album by
ReleasedJanuary 30, 2007 (2007-01-30) [1]
RecordedJune 9, 2006
Genre New wave
Length38:57
Label Sony BMG
Producer Martha Davis, David Paglia [2]
The Motels chronology
Shock
(1985)
Standing Room Only
(2007)
Clean Modern and Reasonable
(2007)

Standing Room Only is the first live album by the band The Motels, recorded live on June 9, 2006, at The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "So L.A." – 4:41
  2. "Closets and Bullets" – 3:44
  3. "Suddenly Last Summer" – 4:22
  4. "Counting" – 4:53
  5. "Celia" – 3:10
  6. "Shame" – 3:58
  7. "Danger" (Davis, Tim McGovern) – 3:26
  8. "Mission of Mercy" – 3:23
  9. "Only the Lonely" – 3:29
  10. "Take the L" (Davis, Marty Jourard, John Carter) – 3:51

Personnel

Credits are taken from the CD's liner notes. [3]

The Motels

Production

Credits are taken from the CD's liner notes. [3]

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References

  1. Standing Room Only at AllMusic
  2. The Motels Information Site - Albums
  3. 1 2 3 Standing Room Only (CD liner). The Motels. New York, New York: Sony BMG. 2007. A 700965.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)