''Blue Room'' is the debut album by American

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. It was released in 1994 by Red Eye Records. It was the band's first full-length album and established their presence in the prolific San Diego music scene of the early 1990s. The album attracted the attention of

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, who re-released it a year after its original release. The album's title is a reference to the single-room apartment that singer Scott Russo lived in during the band's early years and where most of the album was written (the room was painted entirely blue). The song title "C.P.K." stands for "Crazy Poway Kids" and is a reference to the band's hometown of

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(a suburb of San Diego). "Blurred (Part 2)" is a reference to a song on the band's debut EP ''

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Track listing

Personnel

Band

*Scott Russo -

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

*Steve Morris -

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

*Rob Brewer -

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a guitar technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse (music), pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., d ...

*John Bell -

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

*Wade Youman -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

Production

*Dave Nestor – producer,

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*Mike Monroe – executive producer *John Golden – mastering

Artwork

*Greg Raymond – graphic design *Bagel – cover art - Nathan Bagel Stapley *Mike Krull – disc art *Wade Youman – other artwork *Ben Davis – photography

References

External links

Blue Room @ discogs.com
{{Authority control Unwritten Law albums 1994 debut albums