Waking Hours

Waking Hours
Cover for the initial 1989 release
Studio album by
Del Amitri
Released10 July 1989
Recorded1987–1989[1]
Studio
Genre
Length45:49
LabelA&M
Producer
Del Amitri chronology
Del Amitri
(1985) 		Waking Hours
(1989) 		Change Everything
(1992)
Singles from Waking Hours
  1. "Kiss This Thing Goodbye"
    Released: July 1989
  2. "Stone Cold Sober"
    Released: September 1989
  3. "Nothing Ever Happens"
    Released: December 1989
  4. "Move Away Jimmy Blue"
    Released: May 1990[1]
Alternative cover
Cover used for all repressings and reissues
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Great Rock Discography8/10[4]

Waking Hours is the second studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Del Amitri, released in July 1989 by A&M Records.[5] It reached number 6 in the UK Albums Chart and featured one of the band's most famous songs, "Nothing Ever Happens", which reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. The album's opening track, "Kiss This Thing Goodbye", entered the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 when released as a single for the second time.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference albumofthemonth was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Schnee, Steve "Spaz". Waking Hours at AllMusic
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Del Amitri". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  4. ^ Strong, Martin C. (2002). The Great Rock Discography (6th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 275. ISBN 1-84195-312-1.
  5. ^ "Discography". delamitri.info. Retrieved 24 June 2022.