24 P/Carrots

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24 Carrots
24 Carrots cover
Studio album by Al Stewart
Released September 1980
Recorded Davlen Studios, Los Angeles, May 1980
Genre Rock
Length 41:14
Label RCA (UK)
Arista (US)
Producer Chris Desmond, Al Stewart
Professional reviews
Al Stewart chronology
Time Passages
(1978)		 24 Carrots
(1980)		 Live/Indian Summer
(1981)

24 Carrots is the ninth album by Al Stewart, released in 1980. This is Stewart's first album with his new band Shot in the Dark and his first album which includes humour (as the title clearly states). Tracks 1-4 are co-written with Peter White. The single Midnight Rocks, reached the top 30 on the Billboard charts in 1980, reaching #24. The album has been re-released in 2007 with bonus tracks.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Running Man" – 5:12
  2. "Midnight Rocks" – 3:57
  3. "Constantinople" – 4:44
  4. "Merlin's Time" – 2:43
  5. "Mondo Sinistro" – 3:07
  6. "Murmansk Run/Ellis Island" – 7:18
  7. "Rocks in the Ocean" – 5:15
  8. "Paint by Numbers" – 5:29
  9. "Optical Illusion" – 3:24

[edit] Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1980 Albums 37

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1980 "Midnight Rocks" Singles 24
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Al Stewart
Studio Albums
Bed-Sitter Images (1967)  · Love Chronicles (1969)  · Zero She Flies (1970)  · Orange (1972)  · Past, Present and Future (1973)  · Modern Times (1975)  · Year of the Cat (1976)  · Time Passages (1978)  · 24 Carrots (1980)  · Live/Indian Summer (1981)  · Russians and Americans (1984)  · Last Days of the Century (1988)  · Rhymes in Rooms (1992)  · Famous Last Words (1993)  · Between the Wars (1995)  · Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1996)  · Down in the Cellar (2000)  · A Beach Full of Shells (2005)
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