![]() ![]() Typically for Del Amitri (the group never made two albums with the same band members), Waking Hours featured some recently introduced personnel: new guitarist Mick Slaven and keyboard player Andy Alston, who would become a full member after the album's release. ![]() Waking Hours arguably represents Del Amitri's first "mature" record, and was certainly the first to bring them any mainstream success. The first album had been extremely difficult to find for many years, before its 2003 CD reissue, leaving many who became fans in the 1990s totally unaware of its existence. The post-punk influence of the first album, Del Amitri (1985), had produced a sound radically different to the remainder of the band's output. Many Del Amitri fans consider Waking Hours to be the band's first "real" album. The album's opening track, "Kiss This Thing Goodbye", entered the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 when released as a single for the second time. It reached number 6 in the UK Albums Chart and featured one of the band's most famous songs, " Nothing Ever Happens", which reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. Waking Hours is the second studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Del Amitri, released in July 1989 by A&M Records. Cover used for all repressings and reissues ![]()
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