Stolen Wishes

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Stolen Wishes
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Studio album by
Shoes
Released1989
RecordedNovember 1988–September 1989
StudioShort Order Recorder, Zion, Illinois
Genre Power pop
Label Black Vinyl [1]
Producer Shoes
Shoes chronology
Shoes Best
(1987)		Stolen Wishes
(1989)		Propeller
(1994)

Stolen Wishes is an album by the American band Shoes. [2] [3] It was the band's first studio album since 1982 to be released in America. [4] The album, an independent release, sold more than 20,000 copies in its first four months. [5] "Feel the Way That I Do" appeared on the soundtrack to Mannequin Two: On the Move . [6]

Contents

Production

The album was recorded at the band's Short Order Recorder studio; the delay between albums was due to studio construction and label issues. [7] [8] Ric Menck, of Velvet Crush, plays drums on Stolen Wishes. [1] Shoes' three principal band members each wrote five songs. [9]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Robert Christgau B [11]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Select 3/5 [14]

The Washington Post wrote that "the music of these studio hermits ... remains as pure and sweet—bittersweet, actually—as such antecedents as the Hollies, the Beau Brummels, and of course the Beatles." [4] Robert Christgau called the band "still hooky after all these years." [11] The Chicago Tribune concluded that "the record celebrates craft rather than quirks, the primacy of melody and harmony rather than dance beats and gimmickry." [9]

The Dallas Morning News determined that the band "continues its tireless pursuit of this thing called love while tossing out some of the most immediately affecting harmonies and melodies since that band from Liverpool." [15] The San Francisco Chronicle opined that "Shoes sounds like classic American heartland rock that won't go away, no matter what." [16] The Austin American-Statesman listed the album as the sixth best of 1990 (and the best independent release), describing it as "boy-girl songs with an older-and-wiser edge in a testament to the timelessness of hooks and harmonies." [17]

AllMusic wrote that Shoes "appeared to have gotten over their collective distrust of keyboards, and the bright, punchy sound, peppy tempos, and frequent synthesizer washes of Stolen Wishes sound like a studied attempt at a more 'contemporary' sound from a band who seemed perfectly content to be slightly anachronistic a decade earlier." [10] The Rolling Stone Album Guide determined that "the group's creamy harmonies, propulsive three-chord riffing and yearning choruses cut as deep as ever." [13]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Feel the Way That I Do"John Murphy3:37
2."I'll Follow You"Gary Klebe3:56
3."Love Does"Jeff Murphy3:49
4."Let It Go"John Murphy3:52
5."Your Devotion"Klebe3:39
6."I Knew You'd Be Mine"Jeff Murphy4:01
7."Want You Bad"Klebe3:42
8."Torn in Two"John Murphy4:22
9."She's Not the Same"Jeff Murphy3:51
10."Untangled"Klebe3:46
11."I Don't Know Why"Jeff Murphy2:16
12."Inside of You"John Murphy2:39
13."I Can't Go Wrong"Klebe3:19
14."Love Is Like a Bullet"Jeff Murphy3:24
15."Never Had It Better"John Murphy3:39

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes. [18]

Shoes
Additional personnel

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  18. ↑ Stolen Wishes (Media notes). Shoes. Black Vinyl. 1989. BV10189-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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