Album · Del Amitri
Waking Hours by Del Amitri
Waking Hours is an album by Del Amitri, released in 1989. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 12 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Kiss This Thing Goodbye”, on 8 lists with a best position of #84.
Waking Hours, Del Amitri's second album, came out on A&M in July 1989, and the Glasgow band handed the controls to producer Gil Norton. Justin Currie and Iain Harvie were still at the core of it, and the record trades any indie awkwardness for warm, rootsy, radio-ready guitar pop, heartsick and wry at once.
"Kiss This Thing Goodbye" opens the album with a jaunty kiss-off swagger and eventually cracked the top 40 of the US Hot 100 on its second release as a single. "Nothing Ever Happens" is the slow-burner, a weary, observant ballad that became one of their most famous songs and reached number 11 on the UK singles chart. The album itself climbed to number 6 in the UK. Change Everything came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Waking Hours on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiss This Thing Goodbye | 8 | #84 | – | 1990–2005 | |
| 2 | Nothing Ever Happens | 4 | #256 | – | 2001–2006 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.