Red Letter Days (album)

For the album by Red Letter Day, see Red Letter Day (album).
Red Letter Days
Studio album by The Wallflowers
Released November 5, 2002
Recorded 2001 to April, 04 2002;
recorded at
Groovemasters Studio in Santa Monica,
Sound City Studios in Van Nuys,
Record One in Sherman Oaks
mixed at
South Beach Studios in Miami Beach
Genre Rock
Length 49:28
Label Interscope
Producer Tobias Miller & Bill Appleberry
The Wallflowers chronology
(Breach)
(2000)		 Red Letter Days
(2002)		 Rebel, Sweetheart
(2005)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic63/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Rolling Stone[3]

Red Letter Days is the fourth album by The Wallflowers, released in 2002. The album peaked at #32 on the Billboard 200. Red Letter Days was the first Wallflowers record that featured Jakob Dylan playing a majority of the lead guitar parts. The album had a much more aggressive sound than any of their previous releases, especially the song "Everybody Out of the Water," which they performed on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. The first single and only music video shot was for "When You're On Top." Although the album contains some profanity (in "Everybody Out of the Water"), it does not carry the Parental Advisory sticker. It was produced by the band's first guitarist Tobi Miller.

Up to May 2005, Red Letter Days had sold 208,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Track listing

All songs written by Jakob Dylan.

  1. "When You're on Top" – 3:54
  2. "How Good It Can Get" – 4:11
  3. "Closer to You" – 3:17
  4. "Everybody Out of the Water" – 3:42
  5. "Three Ways" – 4:19
  6. "Too Late to Quit" – 3:54
  7. "If You Never Got Sick" – 3:44
  8. "Health and Happiness" – 4:03
  9. "See You When I Get There" – 3:09
  10. "Feels Like Summer Again" – 3:48
  11. "Everything I Need" – 3:37
  12. "Here in Pleasantville" (includes 30 seconds of silence at end of track) – 4:10
  13. "Empire in My Mind" (hidden track) – 3:32

The Japanese edition of the album included two bonus tracks, the original "Empire in My Mind", and a cover of Nick Lowe’s (and Elvis Costello’s) "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding".

Other media

"Everybody Out of the Water" has been used in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and "The Empire in My Mind" was the main theme of the television series The Guardian for its second and third seasons.

Band

Additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/red-letter-days/the-wallflowers
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ Rolling Stone review
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