Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 9, 1988
StudioRockfield Studios (Rockfield, Wales)
GenreAlternative rock, jangle pop, folk rock
Length48:22
LabelGeffen
ProducerPat Moran
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians chronology
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
(1988)
Ghost of a Dog
(1990)

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, released on August 9, 1988, by Geffen Records. The album went 2× platinum in the United States.

"What I Am" was the lead single and big hit from the album, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] The follow-up single, "Circle", was about strained relationships.[2] Although described by author Brent Mann as "the perfect follow up single to 'What I Am'" and which "had 'smash' written all over it", it stalled at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100 and fared slightly better on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, reaching #32.[1][3] Cash Box said of "Circle" that "The key to this gentle song is Brickell’s breathy intensity. Supported by an acoustic-slanted track, she manages to sell the unusually dark lyric shadings."[4] Another song from the album, "Little Miss S." was inspired by Edie Sedgwick and reached #38 on the Mainstream Rock chart and #14 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c "Shooting Rubberbands awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
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  3. ^ Mann, B. (2003). 99 Red Balloons And 100 Other All-Time Great One-Hit Wonders. Citadel. p. 33. ISBN 9780806525167.
  4. ^ "Top of the Pops" (PDF). Cash Box. March 18, 1989. p. 20. Retrieved 2022-12-21.