- rock, alternative rock, indie rock, britpop
- 57 min
- 16 tracks
- V2
Word Gets Around is the debut studio album by Welsh rock band Stereophonics. It was released on 25 August 1997 through V2 Records and reached number six on the UK Albums Chart, making it one of four Stereophonics albums not to reach number one; the other three being 2009's Keep Calm and Carry On, which reached number eleven, 2013's Graffiti on the Train, which went to number three and 2017's Scream Above the Sounds, which just missed the top spot.
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Classical in form, spare, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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Tracks
- 1A Thousand Trees3:04
- 2Looks Like Chaplin2:32
- 3More Life in a Tramps Vest2:20
- 4Local Boy in the Photograph3:22
- 5Traffic4:54
- 6Not Up to You4:37
- 7Check My Eyelids for Holes2:43
- 8Same Size Feet4:00
- 9Last of the Big Time Drinkers2:45
- 10Goldfish Bowl3:02
- 11Too Many Sandwiches5:03
- 12Billy Davey’s Daughter3:50
- 1More Life in a Tramps Vest2:34
- 2A Thousand Trees3:16
- 3Traffic5:37
- 4Local Boy in the Photograph3:33
16 tracks, 57 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Stereophonics
- Label
- V2
- Released
- 1997
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- GB
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