Tired and Emotional

This article is about the album by Mary Coughlan. For the euphemism for "drunk", see Tired and emotional.

Tired and Emotional is the debut album by Irish singer Mary Coughlan released in 1985 by East West Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group (at the time known as WEA).

Tired and Emotional
Studio album by Mary Coughlan
Released	1985
Studio	Greenfields Studios, Headford, County Galway, Ireland
Genre	Pop, rock, New age
Length	34:05
Label	Warner Music
Producer	Erik Visser
Mary Coughlan chronology
Tired and Emotional (1985) Under the Influence (1987)

Reception

The album sold an unexpected 100,000 copies in Ireland, partly because of a memorable appearance on The Late Late Show. It also received a B+ rating from rock critic Robert Christgau.

Track listing

"Double Cross" (Fintan Coughlan) "The Beach" (Antoinette Hensey, Erik Visser) "Meet Me Where They Play the Blues" (Sammy Gallup, Steve Allen) "Delaney's Gone Back on the Wine" (Johnny Mulhern) "Sense of Silence (S.O.S.)" (Antoinette Hensey, Erik Visser) "Nobody's Business/The Tango" (Erik Visser, Everett Robbins, Porter Grainger) "Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long" (Bruce Cockburn) "Country Fair Dance (The Cowboy Song)" (Gerry O'Beirne) "Lady in Green" (Antoinette Hensey, Erik Visser) "Seduced"

Personnel

• Mary Coughlan - vocals
• Erik Visser - guitar, percussion
• Declan Gibbons - guitar
• Gerrard Coffey - guitar, executive producer
• Greg 'Curly' Keranen - double bass
• Micky Belton - drums
• Tony Maher - accordion, synthesizer
• Gerald O'Donoghue - percussion, engineer
• Carl Hession - piano, synthesizer
• Pat MacNamara - accordion
• Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh - bones
• Keith Donald, Tony Chambers - saxophone
• Jimmy Higgins, Snr. - trumpet