No Room Explained

No Room
Type:Album
Artist:The Samples
Cover:The_Samples-No_Room.jpg
Released:1992
Recorded:1991
Genre:Rock
Label:What Are Records?[1]
Producer:Jim Scott
Prev Title:Underwater People
Prev Year:1991
Next Title:The Last Drag
Next Year:1993

No Room is an album by the Boulder, Colorado, band the Samples, released in 1992.[2] [3] Prior to recording the album, the band left Arista Records to regain control of their musical direction.[4]

The Samples supported the album with a North American tour; they also played the 1993 H.O.R.D.E. festival.[5] [6] They wrote and tested the songs while touring their previous album.[7] No Room sold almost 80,000 copies in its first nine months of release; it had topped more than 150,000 copies by 1998.[8] [9]

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune noted the "crystalline production, bubbling keyboard arrangements, snaky guitar lines and a tight, syncopated rhythm section." The Daily Breeze deemed the album "rock with a point—and with touches of jazz fusion, ska, reggae and even a country twang."[10]

Mentioning the Samples' return to an independent label, the Tulsa World opined that "the band's loyalty to its formative ideas gives its music a consistent, yet broad-based, signature."[11] Trouser Press wrote: "'When It's Raining' is a standout, a shimmering melody surfing on a wiggly groove, finally capturing in the studio some of what the Samples transmit onstage."[12]

Track listing

All songs written by Sean Kelly, except where noted.

  1. "When It's Raining" – 3:33
  2. "Summertime" (Kelly, Al Laughlin) – 4:57
  3. "Another Disaster" (Kelly, Andy Sheldon) – 5:15
  4. "Did You Ever Look So Nice" (Kelly, Laughlin) – 4:02
  5. "Nothing Lasts for Long" – 4:35
  6. "Stone Tears" (Sheldon) – 4:43
  7. "Giants" (Sheldon) – 3:20
  8. "Suburbia" (Kelly, MacNichol) – 4:49
  9. "14th and Euclid" (Kelly, Laughlin) – 4:16
  10. "Won't Be Back Again" (Kelly, Laughlin) – 2:40
  11. "Pain" – 3:57
  12. "Little Whale" (Vince Sendra) – :56
  13. "Seany Boy (Drop Out)" – 2:39
  14. "Taking Us Home" – 4:03
  15. "When It's Raining - Live" (hidden track)

Lineup

Notes and References

  1. News: LeComte . Richard . The Samples Defy Description, Please Audiences . Lawrence Journal-World . May 7, 1992.
  2. News: Morse . Steve . Of the previous unknowns... . The Boston Globe . 27 Nov 1992 . Arts & Film . 117.
  3. News: Alesia . Tom . The Samples Return to Springfield with a Mission . The State Journal-Register . February 27, 1992 . Entertainment . 17.
  4. News: Band Scorns The Big Time . Omaha World-Herald . September 10, 1992 . Living Today . 37.
  5. News: The Samples: Lost Battle, But Lost War . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 1 Apr 1993 . Calendar . 7.
  6. News: Bream . Jon . Neo-hippie rock the common thread at HORDE Festival . Star Tribune . 9 July 1993 . 4E.
  7. News: Triplett III . Ward W. . The Samples take name seriously . The Kansas City Star . May 8, 1992 . H16.
  8. News: Scott . Jane . Sampling Success . The Plain Dealer . April 30, 1993 . Friday . 32.
  9. Web site: Samples Return to Indie Roots. Billboard. September 12, 1998. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
  10. News: Spear . Elizabeth . Samples mesh rock with jazz fusion, ska, reggae . Daily Breeze . June 29, 1992 . C5.
  11. News: Brown . Mark . Alternative Rock Quartet Now Back on Its Own Track . Tulsa World . August 28, 1992 . C1.
  12. Web site: Samples . Trouser Press . 5 January 2023.

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