Turn It Upside Down | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | June 14, 1994 | |||
Recorded | March 1994 | |||
Studio | Clinton Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Funk rock [1] | |||
Length | 52:31 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Producer |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Entertainment Weekly | B− [1] |
Robert Christgau | [3] |
Rolling Stone | [4] |
Turn It Upside Down is the second studio album and fourth release overall by American rock band Spin Doctors, released in 1994. It is the follow-up album to their successful RIAA 5× Platinum album Pocket Full of Kryptonite. Though not as commercially or critically successful as their debut album, Turn It Upside Down was certified Platinum in the US. [5] It also yielded three minor hit singles—"Cleopatra's Cat", "Mary Jane" and "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast"—in the UK, with lead single "Cleopatra's Cat" making the top 30 (No. 29); "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast" was also a minor US hit, just missing out on the Top 40, peaking at No. 42. [6]
All tracks are written by Spin Doctors except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Big Fat Funky Booty" | 4:15 | |
2. | "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast" | 3:49 | |
3. | "Cleopatra's Cat" | 4:04 | |
4. | "Hungry Hamed's" | 5:11 | |
5. | "Biscuit Head" | 4:19 | |
6. | "Indifference" | Schenkman, Linda Kelly | 4:23 |
7. | "Bags of Dirt" | 4:47 | |
8. | "Mary Jane" | Barron, Bob Lewis | 3:41 |
9. | "More Than Meets the Ear" | 3:55 | |
10. | "Laraby's Gang" | Barron | 3:39 |
11. | "At This Hour" | 3:53 | |
12. | "Someday All This Will Be Road" | 4:41 | |
13. | "Beasts in the Woods" | 4:34 | |
Total length: | 52:31 |
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Chart (1994) | Peak position |
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Austrian Albums ( Ö3 Austria) [7] | 23 |
Dutch Albums ( Album Top 100) [8] | 64 |
German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100) [9] | 31 |
New Zealand Albums ( RMNZ) [10] | 45 |
Norwegian Albums ( VG-lista) [11] | 16 |
Swiss Albums ( Schweizer Hitparade) [12] | 19 |
UK Albums ( OCC) [13] | 3 |
US Billboard 200 [14] | 28 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada ( Music Canada) [15] | Gold | 50,000^ |
United States ( RIAA) [5] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |