St. Elsewhere | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | April 24, 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2005–2006 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 37:20 | |||
Label | ||||
Producer | Danger Mouse | |||
Gnarls Barkley chronology | ||||
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Singles from St. Elsewhere | ||||
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St. Elsewhere is the debut album by American soul duo Gnarls Barkley. It was released on April 24, 2006, in the United Kingdom, where it debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and on May 9, 2006, in the United States, although it was available for purchase one week earlier as a digital download in the US iTunes Store. St. Elsewhere debuted at No. 20 on the US Billboard 200, and peaked at No. 4. It topped the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart for 39 non-consecutive weeks in 2006 and 2007.
The album's first single, " Crazy", was the first song to become a UK number-one single based solely on downloads. [1] The album was certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA, for shipping 1,000,000 units. [2] A limited edition deluxe package of St. Elsewhere was released on November 7, 2006. The CD + DVD package includes a 92-page booklet, four music videos, and bonus songs from live performances. It was also released on vinyl.
The group created an elaborate backstory for the "Gnarls Barkley" persona, claiming to be close friends of Lester Bangs, Isaac Hayes, Gordon Gano, and lovers of Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey. [3] The character taught the band Kraftwerk English, as well as set up a meeting between the group Wu-Tang Clan and members of the Stuckist art movement. [3] In promotional photographs, the group wears costumes similar to the character Alex from A Clockwork Orange. [3]
In an interview with New York, Gnarls Barkley were asked if they intended to make a contemporary psychedelic record with St. Elsewhere. Producer Danger Mouse agreed, wishing to fuse melody with experimentation like late- 1960s music he admired. [4] Indeed, Elsewhere sees Cee-lo Green's neo soul style [5] set against Mouse's psychedelic rock [4] / soul [3]-infused music. "Creepy-crawly" also features hip hop, [6] yielding a "big [and] amorphous" take on the genre. [7]
Aggregate scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 81/100 [8] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [9] |
The A.V. Club | B+ [7] |
Entertainment Weekly | A [6] |
The Guardian | [3] |
The Independent | [10] |
Los Angeles Times | [11] |
NME | 8/10 [12] |
Pitchfork | 7.7/10 [13] |
Rolling Stone | [14] |
Spin | [15] |
The album received general acclaim from critics: At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 37 reviews. [8] It was rated the best release of 2006 by PopMatters. [16] In 2007, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, with nominations for Album of the Year and Record of the Year for "Crazy". St. Elsewhere placed on Slant Magazine's list of best albums of the 2000s at number 92. [17]
All tracks are produced by Danger Mouse.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | " Go-Go Gadget Gospel" | 2:19 | |
2. | " Crazy" |
| 2:58 |
3. | "St. Elsewhere" |
| 2:30 |
4. | " Gone Daddy Gone" | 2:28 | |
5. | " Smiley Faces" |
| 3:05 |
6. | "The Boogie Monster" |
| 2:50 |
7. | "Feng Shui" |
| 1:26 |
8. | "Just a Thought" |
| 3:42 |
9. | "Transformer" |
| 2:17 |
10. | " Who Cares?" |
| 2:27 |
11. | "Online" |
| 1:48 |
12. | "Necromancer" |
| 2:57 |
13. | "Storm Coming" |
| 3:08 |
14. | "The Last Time" |
| 3:25 |
Total length: | 37:20 |
No. | Title | Length |
---|---|---|
15. | "Crazy" (Instrumental) | 3:00 |
16. | "Go-Go Gadget Gospel" (Instrumental) | 2:14 |
No. | Title | Length |
---|---|---|
15. | "Transformer" (Instrumental) | 2:10 |
16. | "The Boogie Monster" (Instrumental) | 2:49 |
No. | Title | Length |
---|---|---|
1. | "Crazy" (Video) | |
2. | "Gone Daddy Gone" (Video) | |
3. | "Smiley Faces" (Video) | |
4. | "Go Go Gadget Gospel" (Video) | |
5. | "Gone Daddy Gone" ( T4 Live) | |
6. | "Who Cares?" (T4 Live) | |
7. | "The Boogie Monster" (T4 Live) | |
8. | "Smiley Faces" (T4 Live) | |
9. | "Crazy" (T4 Live) | |
10. | ""Crazy"" (Live on Top of the Pops) | |
11. | "Gone Daddy Gone" (Live on Later... with Jools Holland) |
Sample credits [20]
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [20]
Gnarls Barkley
Additional musicians
Technical
|
Artwork
|
Taken from the St. Elsewhere liner notes: [21]
Weekly charts
|
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
|
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
---|---|---|
Australia ( ARIA) [61] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
Belgium ( BEA) [62] | Gold | 25,000* |
Canada ( Music Canada) [63] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
Denmark ( IFPI Danmark) [64] | Gold | 20,000^ |
France ( SNEP) [65] | Gold | 100,000* |
Germany ( BVMI) [66] | Gold | 100,000^ |
Ireland ( IRMA) [67] | Platinum | 15,000^ |
New Zealand ( RMNZ) [68] | Gold | 7,500^ |
Switzerland ( IFPI Switzerland) [69] | Platinum | 30,000^ |
United Kingdom ( BPI) [70] | 2× Platinum | 600,000^ |
United States ( RIAA) [72] | Platinum | 1,400,000 [71] |
Summaries | ||
Europe ( IFPI) [73] | Platinum | 1,000,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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St. Elsewhere | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | April 24, 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2005–2006 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 37:20 | |||
Label | ||||
Producer | Danger Mouse | |||
Gnarls Barkley chronology | ||||
| ||||
Singles from St. Elsewhere | ||||
|
St. Elsewhere is the debut album by American soul duo Gnarls Barkley. It was released on April 24, 2006, in the United Kingdom, where it debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and on May 9, 2006, in the United States, although it was available for purchase one week earlier as a digital download in the US iTunes Store. St. Elsewhere debuted at No. 20 on the US Billboard 200, and peaked at No. 4. It topped the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart for 39 non-consecutive weeks in 2006 and 2007.
The album's first single, " Crazy", was the first song to become a UK number-one single based solely on downloads. [1] The album was certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA, for shipping 1,000,000 units. [2] A limited edition deluxe package of St. Elsewhere was released on November 7, 2006. The CD + DVD package includes a 92-page booklet, four music videos, and bonus songs from live performances. It was also released on vinyl.
The group created an elaborate backstory for the "Gnarls Barkley" persona, claiming to be close friends of Lester Bangs, Isaac Hayes, Gordon Gano, and lovers of Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey. [3] The character taught the band Kraftwerk English, as well as set up a meeting between the group Wu-Tang Clan and members of the Stuckist art movement. [3] In promotional photographs, the group wears costumes similar to the character Alex from A Clockwork Orange. [3]
In an interview with New York, Gnarls Barkley were asked if they intended to make a contemporary psychedelic record with St. Elsewhere. Producer Danger Mouse agreed, wishing to fuse melody with experimentation like late- 1960s music he admired. [4] Indeed, Elsewhere sees Cee-lo Green's neo soul style [5] set against Mouse's psychedelic rock [4] / soul [3]-infused music. "Creepy-crawly" also features hip hop, [6] yielding a "big [and] amorphous" take on the genre. [7]
Aggregate scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 81/100 [8] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [9] |
The A.V. Club | B+ [7] |
Entertainment Weekly | A [6] |
The Guardian | [3] |
The Independent | [10] |
Los Angeles Times | [11] |
NME | 8/10 [12] |
Pitchfork | 7.7/10 [13] |
Rolling Stone | [14] |
Spin | [15] |
The album received general acclaim from critics: At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 37 reviews. [8] It was rated the best release of 2006 by PopMatters. [16] In 2007, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, with nominations for Album of the Year and Record of the Year for "Crazy". St. Elsewhere placed on Slant Magazine's list of best albums of the 2000s at number 92. [17]
All tracks are produced by Danger Mouse.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | " Go-Go Gadget Gospel" | 2:19 | |
2. | " Crazy" |
| 2:58 |
3. | "St. Elsewhere" |
| 2:30 |
4. | " Gone Daddy Gone" | 2:28 | |
5. | " Smiley Faces" |
| 3:05 |
6. | "The Boogie Monster" |
| 2:50 |
7. | "Feng Shui" |
| 1:26 |
8. | "Just a Thought" |
| 3:42 |
9. | "Transformer" |
| 2:17 |
10. | " Who Cares?" |
| 2:27 |
11. | "Online" |
| 1:48 |
12. | "Necromancer" |
| 2:57 |
13. | "Storm Coming" |
| 3:08 |
14. | "The Last Time" |
| 3:25 |
Total length: | 37:20 |
No. | Title | Length |
---|---|---|
15. | "Crazy" (Instrumental) | 3:00 |
16. | "Go-Go Gadget Gospel" (Instrumental) | 2:14 |
No. | Title | Length |
---|---|---|
15. | "Transformer" (Instrumental) | 2:10 |
16. | "The Boogie Monster" (Instrumental) | 2:49 |
No. | Title | Length |
---|---|---|
1. | "Crazy" (Video) | |
2. | "Gone Daddy Gone" (Video) | |
3. | "Smiley Faces" (Video) | |
4. | "Go Go Gadget Gospel" (Video) | |
5. | "Gone Daddy Gone" ( T4 Live) | |
6. | "Who Cares?" (T4 Live) | |
7. | "The Boogie Monster" (T4 Live) | |
8. | "Smiley Faces" (T4 Live) | |
9. | "Crazy" (T4 Live) | |
10. | ""Crazy"" (Live on Top of the Pops) | |
11. | "Gone Daddy Gone" (Live on Later... with Jools Holland) |
Sample credits [20]
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [20]
Gnarls Barkley
Additional musicians
Technical
|
Artwork
|
Taken from the St. Elsewhere liner notes: [21]
Weekly charts
|
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
|
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
---|---|---|
Australia ( ARIA) [61] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
Belgium ( BEA) [62] | Gold | 25,000* |
Canada ( Music Canada) [63] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
Denmark ( IFPI Danmark) [64] | Gold | 20,000^ |
France ( SNEP) [65] | Gold | 100,000* |
Germany ( BVMI) [66] | Gold | 100,000^ |
Ireland ( IRMA) [67] | Platinum | 15,000^ |
New Zealand ( RMNZ) [68] | Gold | 7,500^ |
Switzerland ( IFPI Switzerland) [69] | Platinum | 30,000^ |
United Kingdom ( BPI) [70] | 2× Platinum | 600,000^ |
United States ( RIAA) [72] | Platinum | 1,400,000 [71] |
Summaries | ||
Europe ( IFPI) [73] | Platinum | 1,000,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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