Matchbox Twenty | Yourself Or Someone Like You (20th Anniversary Edition) (LP, Red Colored Vinyl)

Limited transparent red colored vinyl LP pressing. Yourself or Someone Like You is the debut studio album by alt-rock band Matchbox 20, released in 1996.. While their first single, "Long Day", was a radio success in the West Coast, the album soon spawned several Top 40 singles throughout 1997 and 1998, including "Push", "3 A.M.", "Real World", and "Back 2 Good". The album features a sound similar to traditional rock sound and post-grunge. The album features themes of adolescence, loneliness, psychological abuse, humiliation, depression, anger, and alcoholism. The album sold several million copies in the U.S and was certified Diamond, and it was also certified multi-platinum in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. To date, the album has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.

Matchbox 20: Rob Thomas (vocals, acoustic guitar); Kyle Cook, Adam Gaynor (guitar, background vocals); Brian Yale (bass); Paul Doucette (drums). Recorded at Triclops Recording, Atlanta, Georgia. "Push" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. On YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU, Matchbox 20's debut, vocalist/lyricist Rob Thomas leads his band down the same path as Counting Crows, to a post-Pearl Jam, Van Morrison/Band-influenced home at the top of the charts. Thomas' raspy voice wraps a romanticized alienation around folky, roots-inflected rock tunes that share the thematic aspirations of Van circa TUPELO HONEY and The Band's self-titled second album, if not their literary wisdom. Having lived through the grunge breakthrough, the Georgia quintet puts far more 'oomph' into their power-chords than those classic rockers ever could. Their best results--the melancholy description of an emotionally isolated lover on "3 AM," the embittered daydream of "Real World," even the upbeat don't-give-a-damn rave-up "Girl Like That"--fit snugly on the same shelf as the aforementioned Crows and fellow crackers Collective Soul.

Tracklist

A1        Real World
A2        Long Day
A3        3 Am
A4        Push
A5        Girl Like That
A6        Back 2 Good
B7        Damn
B8        Argue
B9        Kody
B10        Busted
B11        Shame
B12        Hang

*Audio and/or tracklist may vary slightly from the vinyl version.

Label: ATLANTIC
Rel. Date: 09/08/2017
UPC: 075678660597

• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: Pop
• Released: 09/08/2017