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555%
Studio album by Ginger Wildheart
Released 23 March-6 April 2012 (Download)
May 2012 (CD)
Recorded October 2011-January 2012
Genre Rock, pop, hard rock
Length 2:09:15
Language English
Label Round Records
Ginger Wildheart chronology
10
(2010)		 555%
(2012)

555% is the fourth solo album by the English rock musician Ginger, released under the name Ginger Wildheart. The full album of thirty tracks was only available online for a limited time; a 12-track version of the album titled 100% has been released commercially.

Background

The album was recorded over three sessions in England, France, and Denmark during October 2011 and January 2012.[citation needed] Funding for the recording of the album was raised by Ginger's Triple Album Project managed through PledgeMusic. When the project raised significantly more money than Ginger had estimated would be required to record the album, he announced that the album would be titled 555% when donations reached that percentage of the original goal. The success of the fundraising effort encouraged Ginger to make extra songs available online while offering special CD and vinyl packages to contributors.[1] Via the PledgeMusic website, persons who pledged money to the project were allowed to download completed tracks before they were released in other forms.

The first track to be made available for download by pledgers was the rough mix of "You're The One, You're The One, Yeah, I Know You're The One, You're The One (Yeah I Know You're The One)."[2] The thirty tracks recorded for the project were made available to pledgers in three batches of ten, on March 23, March 30, and April 6, 2012 respectively. On each date, the tracks were made available at 5:55 pm England time.[3][4]

555% Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ginger, except where noted. 

CD1
No. Title Length
1. "Forget About It"   3:17
2. "I-N-T-E-R-N-A-L R-adio"   4:35
3. "Lie When You Tell Me the Truth"   3:45
4. "Incidental Noises"   3:19
5. "It Appears That the Party Is Over" (Ginger/Willie Dowling) 3:33
6. "Deep in the Arms of Morpheus"   6:20
7. "Baby Skies"   5:48
8. "Silence"   3:48
9. "Powderkeg"   4:09
10. "Time" (Ginger/Jon Poole/Chris Catalyst) 7:39
CD2
No. Title Length
1. "Another Spinning Fucking Rainbow"   5:25
2. "Westward Ho! (A New Reputation)"   4:08
3. "Do the Lonely Suffer More, or Less, or Just the Same at the Point of Death?"   4:04
4. "The Other Side"   3:56
5. "Strange New Year"   2:48
6. "Lover, It'll All Work Out"   4:00
7. "Illuminating Times"   4:13
8. "Begin From Within"   4:44
9. "Return of the Northern Cardinal"   5:29
10. "Taste Aversion"   5:22
CD3
No. Title Length
1. "You're The One, You're The One, Yeah, I Know You're The One, You're The One (Yeah I Know You're The One)"   3:40
2. "Beautifully, Blissfully Unsettled"   4:01
3. "Confusion"   2:57
4. "Sleeping In The Light"   3:39
5. "In Vino Veritas"   7:52
6. "Very, Very Slow"   1:22
7. "Just Another Song About Someone"   4:13
8. "There Is Something Wrong With My Mind"   3:30
9. "We've Been Expecting You"   2:56
10. "The End"   4:47
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100%

Persons who downloaded tracks from the PledgeMusic site were encouraged to vote for their four favorite songs out of each batch of ten. The twelve most popular songs were selected for the commercial version of the album, titled 100% and released in May 2012. The other eighteen tracks are now unavailable for download and cannot be found on a commercially released album.

100% reached #9 on the UK midweek album chart on June 27, 2012.[5]

100% Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Forget About It"   3:17
2. "I-N-T-E-R-N-A-L R-adio"   4:35
3. "Lover, It'll All Work Out"   4:00
4. "You're The One, You're The One, Yeah, I Know You're The One, You're The One (Yeah I Know You're The One)"   3:40
5. "It Appears That the Party Is Over"   3:33
6. "Taste Aversion"   5:22
7. "Another Spinning Fucking Rainbow"   5:25
8. "Just Another Song About Someone"   4:13
9. "Westward Ho! (A New Reputation)"   4:08
10. "Beautifully, Blissfully Unsettled"   4:01
11. "We've Been Expecting You"   2:56
12. "Time"   7:39
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Personnel

According to updates on the PledgeMusic website, the following personnel took part in the sessions:[6]

  • Ginger - vocals, guitar
  • "Random" Jon Poole - bass, vocals
  • Chris Catalyst - Guitar, Bass, vocals
  • Denzel - drums (CD1[7] - tracks 1, 2 & 10, CD2[8] - tracks 1, 4, 8 & 10, CD3 - tracks 6, 7 & 10)
  • Fyfe Ewing - drums (CD1[7] - tracks 4, 5 & 9, CD2[8] - tracks 3, 6, 7 & 9, CD3 - tracks 3, 4 & 8)
  • Ritch Battersby - drums (CD1[7] - tracks 3, 6, 7 & 8, CD2[8] - tracks 2 & 5, CD3 - tracks 1, 2, 5 & percussion on 9)
  • Willie Dowling - keyboards, Guitars, vocals
  • C.J - guitar, vocals (CD1 - tracks 6, 7 & 8)[7]
  • Victoria Liedtke - vocals[9]
  • Laila K - vocals (CD2[10] - track 2)
  • Jase Edwards - Guitar (CD2 track 6 and CD3 track 6 - guitar solo)
Production team
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References

  1. ^ Ginger Wildheart: The Triple Album Project on PledgeMusic
  2. ^ Brand New Song To Download Exclusively For Pledgers
  3. ^ CD1: The First 10 Songs
  4. ^ CD2: The Next 10 Songs
  5. ^ Huffington Post article. Retrieved 11th August, 2012
  6. ^ Willie Dowling, Fyfe Ewing & Jon Poole confirmed for the first session!
  7. ^ a b c d Ginger Wildheart (@gingernyc) on Twitter
  8. ^ a b c @gavmccaughey Tweets CD2 Drummer Info
  9. ^ Exclusive Video: Beautiful Harmonies & Angry Men
  10. ^ @gingernyc Tweets vocals on Westward Ho!
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External links

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