Spin Doctors
Turn It Upside Down

Epic    EK 52907  (1994)

Rock/Pop
CD, 13   Tracks, 55:11  Length
01 Big Fat Funky Booty Spin Doctors 04:14
02 You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast Spin Doctors 03:49
03 Cleopatra's Cat Spin Doctors 04:04
04 Hungry Hamed's Spin Doctors 05:11
05 Biscuit Head Spin Doctors 04:19
06 Indifference Eric Schenkman; Linda Kelly 04:23
07 Bags of Dirt Spin Doctors 04:47
08 Mary Jane Chris Barron; Bob Lewis 03:41
09 More Than Meets the Ear Spin Doctors 03:55
10 Laraby's Gang Chris Barron 03:39
11 At This Hour Spin Doctors 03:53
12 Someday All This Will Be Road Spin Doctors 04:41
13 Beasts in the Woods Spin Doctors 04:35
Music Details
Product Details
Packaging Jewel Case
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Musicians  &  Credits
Vocals Chris Barron
Drums Aaron Comess
Guitar Eric Schenkman
Bass Mark White
Musician Spin Doctors
Producer Spin Doctors; Frankie LaRocka; Peter Denenberg
Engineer Peter Denenberg
Mixed By Peter Denenberg
Personal Details
Index # 3156
Owner Dave
Tags Alternative Rock
User Defined
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Notes
Success hits a lot of bands hard, but few harder than the Spin Doctors. Like many bands, the Doctors had the proverbial lifetime to write their first album, and just a few short months to deliver a second. And in those months, they were constantly attacked by critics and alt-rock fans, who thought they sneaked onto the charts through deceptive marketing. They didn't weather the criticism especially well, and their second record, Turn It Upside Down, is pretty much an over-thought mess. They were at their best turning out tuneful, barroom rockers, occasionally letting them run a little bit longer with jams. Here, the jams, not the songs, are at the foundation of the music, and there are no hooks (outside of "Cleopatra's Cat"). Furthermore, the production is cautious and glossy, resulting in a stillborn album that shows everything that could go wrong when a jam band decided to plunge headfirst into the mainstream. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)