Lovely (The Primitives album)

Lovely is the debut studio album by English indie pop band The Primitives, released in 1988. It features the international hit single "Crash", as well as the UK top 100 hits "Stop Killing Me", "Thru the Flowers", and "Out of Reach". "Way Behind Me" was issued as a single after the album's initial release and was later included on re-releases as well as on the follow-up album Pure.

Lovely
Studio album by
The Primitives
ReleasedMarch 1988
Recorded1987–1988
GenreIndie pop
Length35:25
LabelRCA
ProducerPaul Sampson, Mark Wallis, Craig Leon
The Primitives chronology
Lovely
(1988)		 Pure
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Record Collector[2]

Chart performance

The album reached No. 6 on the UK album charts.[3] It spent 9 weeks on the U.S. Billboard 200 album charts and reached its peak position of No. 106 in October 1988.[4]

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Court, except for where noted.

  1. "Crash" (Court, Steve Dullaghan, Tracy Tracy) - 2:31
  2. "Spacehead" (Court, Dullaghan, Tracy) - 2:11
  3. "Carry Me Home" - 2:54
  4. "Shadow" (Court, Dullaghan, Tracy) - 3:28
  5. "Thru the Flowers" - 2:30
  6. "Dreamwalk Baby" - 2:01
  7. "I'll Stick with You" - 2:33
  8. "Way Behind Me" [bonus track; not on original release] - 3:08
  9. "Nothing Left" (Court, Dullaghan, Tracy) - 3:04
  10. "Stop Killing Me" - 2:04
  11. "Out of Reach" - 2:20
  12. "Ocean Blue" - 3:24
  13. "Run Baby Run" - 2:32
  14. "Don't Want Anything to Change" - 1:52
  15. "Buzz Buzz Buzz" - 2:01

Personnel

The Primitives

  • Tracy Tracy – lead vocals, tambourine
  • Paul Court – guitar, vocals
  • Steve Dullaghan – bass
  • Tig Williams – drums

Notes
  1. Abebe, Nitsuh. "Lovely – The Primitives". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  2. Abrahams, Ian (August 2013). "The Primitives – Lovely". Record Collector (417). Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  3. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 439. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  4. "Billboard 200: The Primitives". Billboard. 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017.



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