Yesterday Went Too Soon

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Yesterday Went Too Soon

Studio album by Feeder

Released

August 30, 1999

Recorded

1998-1999

Genre

Alternative rock, pop rock

Length

57:19

Professional reviews

Feeder chronology

Polythene
(1997)

Yesterday Went Too Soon
(1999)

Echo Park
(2001)

Yesterday Went Too Soon is the second full-length album by the British Rock/Pop band Feeder. It was released on August 30, 1999 on The Echo Label.

The album entered the UK charts at #8, after a decent amount of critical success. The title track gave them their first top 20 single, and would in total give the band 4 top 50 hits. It's critical and cult appeal including slots on Top of the Pops for the first time, enabled the album to aid the bands breakthrough which was completed on the follow-up Echo Park.

The album gained a Silver certification in April 2001, shortly before the release of breakthrough album Echo Park,^[1] and then went Gold in March 2003 after the extended commercial recognition of Comfort In Sound.^[2]

Despite the band's American breakthrough with single "High" and extensive touring in the States, Yesterday Went Too Soon was never released in the US. Promotional copies of the album were released by the band's former US label Elektra, but they would ultimately turn down the album for distribution.

1 Background
2 Accolades
3 Track listing
4 UK Chart performance
5 References

[edit] Background

The album was written and recorded during and before the bands US tour of 1998. Before they left the UK, some demos were recorded with a few completed into final recordings, with some of these featuring on their single "Suffocate" as B-sides. "Dry" on CD2 of the single was later made into a full band version, as opposed to the acoustic recording found on the single.

There were plans to make this a double album, as a total of at least thirty songs were recorded with a view of appearing on the album. When recording was wrapped with the tracklist organised, the albums release was delayed as frontman Grant Nicholas wrote and recorded more songs with the band afterwards, with the band feeling they were too good to leave off the record.

[edit] Accolades

#6 on Metal Hammer's 1999 list (the highest placing from a UK act that year).^[3]

#24 on Melody Maker's 1999 list.^[4]

#16 on Kerrang's 1999 list.^[5]

#73 in Kerrang! magazines "Top 100 British Rock Albums of All Time" list.^[6]

Maxim and Loaded's- "Album of The Month".^[7]

[edit] Track listing

[edit] North American/EU(Inc.UK)/Australian version

"Anaesthetic" – 3:50
"Insomnia" – 2:54
"Picture of Perfect Youth" – 3:46
"Yesterday Went Too Soon" – 4:20
"Waiting for Changes" – 2:44
"Radioman" – 3:37
"Day In Day Out" – 3:39
"Tinsel Town" – 4:29
"You're My Evergreen" – 3:24
"Dry" – 4:24
"Hole in My Head" – 2:58
"So Well" – 4:03
"Paperfaces" – 4:25
- Contains the hidden track Bubblehead which starts at – 9:28