The Good Will Out

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The Good Will Out
Four men, evenly spaced out, walking down a road with buildings behind them
Studio album by
Embrace
Released8 June 1998
Recorded
  • Hook End
  • Whitfield Street
  • Metropolis
GenreBritpop, post-Britpop
Length59:05
Label
Producer
  • Dave Creffield
  • Embrace
  • Youth
Embrace chronology
The Good Will Out
(1998) 		Drawn from Memory
(2000)
Singles from The Good Will Out
  1. "All You Good Good People"
    Released: 27 October 1997
  2. "Come Back to What You Know"
    Released: 25 May 1998
  3. "My Weakness Is None of Your Business"
    Released: 17 August 1998

The Good Will Out is the debut studio album by English rock band Embrace, released on 8 June 1998, by Hut, Mobetta, and Virgin Records. After finalizing their line-up, and acquiring manager Tony Perrin, "All You Good Good People" was released through Fierce Panda in February 1997. Soon afterwards, the band signed to Hut; their debut album was produced between the band, Dave Creffield, and Youth. The Good Will Out has been described as a Britpop and post-Britpop album.

Two EPs, Fireworks EP and One Big Family EP, were released in mid-1997, and promoted with festival appearances and a tour of the United Kingdom. A re-recorded version of "All You Good Good People" was released as the lead single from The Good Will Out on 27 October 1997, which was also promoted with a UK tour. "Come Back to What You Know" was released as the album's second single on 25 May 1998, followed by the third single "My Weakness Is None of Your Business" on 17 August 1998. Following this, the band toured the UK and Japan.

The Good Will Out received generally favourable reviews from critics, some of whom praised the high-quality songwriting. The album topped the chart in the UK, as well as reaching number two in Scotland. It went gold in the UK on the first day of release, and was certified platinum in that territory by the end of the year. All three of its singles charted within the top 10 of the UK Singles Charts, while two of them reached the top 10 in Scotland. NME included the album on their list of the best albums of the year.

Background[]

In 1993, vocalist Danny McNamara and his brother, guitarist Richard McNamara formed Embrace in Huddersfield; at the time, the latter McNamara was playing drums for the thrash metal band Gross Misconduct.[1][2] After an ad placement in a local publication, the pair drafted in Mike Heaton on drums.[3][4] Following a handful of live shows, one of which earned an unfavourable piece from Melody Maker, the band took a break from performing to focus on writing material.[3] They rehearsed for a while, prior to Richard McNamara finding a recording of "Retread" in Danny McNamara's set of demos.[4] Bassist Steve Firth joined the band in 1996; around this time the band sent demos to potential managers, and eventually settled with Tony Perrin.[3]

"All You Good Good People", with "My Weakness Is None of Your Business" as its B-side, was released in February 1997, through the independent label Fierce Panda Records.[4][5] It was promoted with a tour alongside the Longpigs.[1] It caught the attention of music publications, and a bidding war from record labels.[3] The band eventually signed to Hut Records, an imprint of Virgin Records; they signed to DGC Records for releases in the United States.[4] Perrin said he knew people at Geffen Records, who owned DGC, and was signed to the label via A&R member Tony Berg.[3]

Recording[]

The Good Will Out was produced by Dave Creffield, the band, and Youth.[6] Johnny Dollar, who mixed "Now You're Nobody", was selected to produce the album, though had to decline due to personal reasons. Steve Osborne did additional production on "One Big Family"; Dollar's lack of involvement allowed Osborne to work with Embrace, as he had wanted to work with a rock-centric band again.[3][6] The band unsuccessful attempted to draft in Steve Albini.[7] All of the previously released tracks that would end up on the final version of the album were re-recorded during the sessions.[8] McNamara explained that as people were saying "we write songs like we're on our third or fourth album, but the early tracks still had the sound of a fledgling band so I wanted more definitive versions".[9]

Out of the final recordings, Creffield and the band produced nearly all of them, save for "All You Good Good People" and "Come Back to What You Know", which were produced by Youth at Hook End Studios.[6][10] Creffield handled most of the recording, except for Hugo Nicolson, who recorded "All You Good Good People" and "Come Back to What You Know"; both tracks had additional recording from Creffield.[6] Guitars for "The Last Gas" were recorded at an unnamed studio in Nottingham.[11] The piano for "That's All Changed Forever" was recorded at Whitfield Street Studios.[12] Strings were recorded by a 24-piece orchestra at Metropolis Studios.[13] The piano for "Fireworks" was recorded at Metropolis as Dollar wanted the band to use the Fazioli piano that the studio had.[14] Youth and Nicolson mixed the recordings, bar the aforementioned "Now You're Nobody", before the album was mastered by Bunt Stafford-Clark at Townhouse Studios in London.[6]

Composition and lyrics[]

Musically, the sound of The Good Will Out has been described as Britpop,[15] and post-Britpop.[16] Mickey Dale added keyboards to the recordings, and arranged the strings; Wil Malone acted as the string conductor.[6] The album opens with the 40-second "Intro", which consists of an orchestra setting up their instruments, ending with drum hits that segue into "All You Good Good People", which features a forty-piece orchestra.[17][18] McNamara thought the orchestra warming up "sound[ed] incredible", and ran into the studio's control toom to have it recorded as the intro piece.[19] They asked the orchestra to repeat what they had been doing, who were unsure what they were playing.[20] The second occasion the band were working with an orchestra, they had tape rolling; the conductor can be heard filling out Musicians' Union forms.[21] Dale described the piece as being able to "feel all the excitement and ALL the nerves in the room".[22] He said "All You Good Good People" was his first instance of working with the band, as they required a string arrangement, and had asked Dale for one.[23] The track originally began as "Mikes Fast", and went through multiple versions before ending up in its final form.[24] Varying tape noises can be heard as a result of the tape that had McNamara's vocals being fast-forwarded and rewound.[25]

"My Weakness Is None of Your Business" was partially influenced by a song from Michelle Gayle.[26] The band intended to hold "Come Back to What You Know" back for their second album, until publicist Scott Piering heard the song and pushed for its release.[27] McNamara said an earlier version of "One Big Family" was "a lot more chaotic", influenced by "Naked Cousin (1996) by PJ Harvey.[28] It features Richard McNamara on leads vocals and tambourine, and group vocals consisting of friends, partners, and people from the street, under the name the Bricklayers.[29] "Higher Sights" is a power ballad in the vein of INXS, and was inspired by "You Do" (1995) by McAlmont & Butler.[30][31] Danny McNamara said he wrote the song after someone told the band they "weren't [B]ritpop enough".[32] Dale said the strong players on the song had struggled with the song as they had printed the scores were in the wrong key, resulting in the plays having to transpose it while recording.[33]

"Retread", a ballad, details the end of a relationship.[17][34] The guitar riff was played on every guitar that they had, before they settled on the final tone.[35] "I Want the World" features the use of wah-wah pedals and feedback, and was compared to the work of Oasis.[17][8] In its original form, the song sounded closer to the Jesus and Mary Chain; Richard McNamara attempted to emulate Tim Burgess of the Charlatans.[36][37] "You've Got to Say Yes" was about Heaton's best friend Dean who had an "incredibly tough life", and was influenced by the work of Curtis Mayfield.[38][39] The song was initially called "Shallow Time", with a saxophone, and a section in 6/8 time.[40][41] For "Fireworks", the band had Danny McNamara sing a soul-esque rendition, before they added their instruments.[42] The intro to "The Last Gas" is a snippet from a radio show about orangutans; it includes shouting from the Bricklayers.[43][44]

The album's final three tracks are piano-led pieces: "That's All Changed Forever", "Now You're Nobody", and "The Good Will Out".[17] "That's All Changed Forever" was influenced by McNamara falling in love, and the way love can affect things in a person's life.[45] The chorus section was inspired after the band saw Superstar, who had a song with a similar sound.[46] The lyrics include a reference to a conversation McNamara and Dale had at Heaton's house in 1995.[47][48][49] With "Now You're Nobody", Dale said the band took a "very Pet Sounds approach", such as quieting the drum and bass parts, and adding a lot of reverb.[50] Richard McNamara said they dismantled a music box to sample its notes for the song.[51] "The Good Will It" was the result of combining two separate song, and was reminiscent of "Hey Jude" (1968) by the Beatles.[52][53] It initially had a verse from a different song, which Jazz Summers said it needed re-working.[54] They re-wrote the verse, and eventually had the final form of the song.[55]

Release[]

The Fireworks EP was released on 5 May 1997, and featured "The Last Gas", "Now You're Nobody", "Blind", and "Fireworks".[56][57] Following this, they went on a sold-out UK tour.[58] The One Big Family EP was released on 7 July 1997, which featured "One Big Family", "Dry Kids", "You've Only Got to Stop to Get Better", and "Butter Wouldn't Melt".[59] It was promoted with appearances at Glastonbury, T in the Park, Phoenix, V, and Reading Festivals, as well as a three-date residency at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.[60] The re-recorded version of "All You Good Good People" was released as a single on 27 October 1997. Two versions were released on CD: the first, dubbed the All You Good Good People EP, with "You Don't Amount to Anything – This Time", "The Way I Do", and "Free Ride", while the other included a Perfecto remix of "One Big Family", the Fierce Panda version of "All You Good Good People", as well as an orchestral version of it.[61] The band went on a tour of mainland Europe, before touring the UK in November 1997.[62]

"Come Back to What You Know" was released as a single on 25 May 1998. Two version were released on CD: the first with "Love Is Back", "If You Feel Like a Sinner", and "Perfect Way", while the other featured live versions of "Butter Wouldn't Melt" and "Dry Kids", as well as an orchestral version of "Come Back to What You Know".[63] Coinciding with this, the band embarked on a short four-date tour of the UK.[64] The Good Will Out was released on 8 June 1998 through Hut, Mobetta, and Virgin Records.[9][6] The album cover was photographed on Christopher Street in New York City.[65] The US release, which occurred on 28 July 1998, featured a re-recorded version of "Blind" subtitled the "road version".[66][67] It was promoted with an in-store performance and signing session at HMV's flagship store on Oxford Street in London.[68] Following this, the band performed at Glastonbury Festival.[69]

"My Weakness Is None of Your Business" was released as a single on 17 August 1998.[69] The CD version included "Feelings I Thought You Shared" and "Don't Turn Your Back on Me", while the 12" vinyl version featured those two songs, in addition to the Perfecto remix of "One Big Family".[63] An edition dubbed The Abbey Road Sessions was also released, with versions of "My Weakness Is None of Your Business", "Higher Sights", and "Retread" recorded at Abbey Road Studios.[64] Following this, the band embarked on a tour of the UK in September 1998, and then Japan and three shows in the US.[69][64][70] Prior to embarking on a European tour at the end of the year, touring keyboardist Mickey Dale was made an official member. The Good Will Out EP was released on 30 November 1998, consisting of the previously released live version of "Butter Wouldn't Melt" and "Dry Kids", as well as the "road version" of "Blind". Alongside this, The Abbey Road Sessions Part 2 was released with session versions of "All You Good Good People", "That's All Changed Forever", and "You've Got to Say Yes".[66]

"All You Good Good People", "My Weakness Is None of Your Busines", "Come Back to What You Know", "One Big Family", "Fireworks", and "The Good Will Out" were included on the band's first compilation album, Fireworks (Singles 1997–2002) (2002).[71] "All You Good Good People", "Come Back to What You Know", "One Big Family", and the "road version" of "Blind" were included on the band's third compilation album, The Essential (2007).[72] The Good Will Out was performed live in its entirety for a series of shows in 2019.[16] The album was re-pressed on vinyl, alongside their second studio album Drawn from Memory (2000) and third studio album If You've Never Been (2001), in 2020.[73]

Critical reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars[74]
Dotmusic8/10[75]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 stars[56]
NME9/10[17]
Melody Maker9/10[34]
PopMatters5.7/10[15]
Q2/5 stars[76]
Rolling Stone2/5 stars[30]
The Times7/10 stars[8]

The Good Will Out was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. James Oldham of NME saw the album as a collection of "uplifting optimism that substitutes vulnerability for bravado, and heartfelt sentiment for boisterous thrills". His only complaint was the band's "not so confident [...] crazed hedonism", concluding that the release was "one of the great debut albums of the past decade".[17] Melody Maker's Mark Sutherland said upon his first listen of the album, he was immediately struck with "not its arrogance, but it's humility". He expanded on this by saying the band were "at their least engaging when they resemble their caricature [...] and merely endearing when pulling self-consciously 'classic' tricks".[34] AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine said in the lead up to the album's release, it was viewed as the "heir apparent to the lad-rock throne", and one listen of the album "illustrates why -- the group ingeniously combines the anthemic hooks and monolithic roar of Oasis with the sweeping aural majesty of the Verve". He said the songs were "quite good, and they're performed passionately".[74]

The staff at Dotmusic said the album "challenges The Verve and Oasis out to compare the size of their anthems and the sweetness of their ballads." They added that while the album, "sounds massively important, it lacks the soul of [frontman Richard] Ashcroft & co".[75] Rolling Stone reviewer Matt Diehel said the band "drag out all the Brit-pop devices" on the album from the "obvious Beatles references [...] to Stone Roses-ish hubris". He added that the band's "main problem is lack of personality".[30] In a review for The Times, Mike Pattenden wrote that when the band "put the bluster to one side they hit a genuinely soulful note", while on the other hand, "when they try and rock their impact is diminished".[8] PopMatters editor Sarah Zupko said the tracks "don't quite possess the instant hooks" that Oasis member Noel Gallagher "is a master" of. In spite of this, she called it "a pretty good album of middle-of-the-road Britpop".[15] Q writer Andrew Collins said tracks such as "The Last Gas" and "All You Good Good People" were the band's "stock-in-trade" which was "rousing in short doses but punishing over an hour, chiefly due to Danny McNamara's limited voice". He noted that strings were "employed relentlessly but the effect is like underlining a shopping list for effect".[76]

Commercial performance and accolades[]

The Good Will Out peaked at number one in the UK,[77] and number two in Scotland.[78] It ranked at number 52 on the UK's year-end chart for 1998.[79] The Fireworks EP charted at number 34 in Scotland and the UK.[80][81] The One Big Family EP charted at number 21 in the UK,[80] and number 22 in Scotland.[82] "All You Good Good People" charted at number seven in Scotland,[83] and number eight in the UK.[80] "Come Back to What You Know" charted at number four in Scotland,[84] and number six in the UK.[80] "My Weakness Is None of Your Business" charted at number seven in Scotland,[85] and number nine in the UK.[80]

The Good Will Out went gold on its first day of release, and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) by the end of the year.[86][87] The album is ranked number 993 in All-Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd. edition, 2000).[88] NME ranked the album at number 12 on their list of the best albums of the year.[89]

Track listing[]

All songs written by Danny McNamara and Richard McNamara.[6]

The Good Will Out track listing
No.TitleProducerLength
1."Intro"
  • Dave Creffield
  • Embrace
0:46
2."All You Good Good People"Youth6:06
3."My Weakness Is None of Your Business"
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
3:17
4."Come Back to What You Know"Youth4:10
5."One Big Family" (lead vocals by Richard McNamara)
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
4:05
6."Higher Sights"
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
3:44
7."Retread"
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
3:39
8."I Want the World" (lead vocals by Richard McNamara)
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
5:44
9."You've Got to Say Yes"
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
3:42
10."Fireworks"
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
3:58
11."The Last Gas"
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
3:44
12."That's All Changed Forever"
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
4:13
13."Now You're Nobody"
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
4:23
14."The Good Will Out"
  • Creffield
  • Embrace
7:00

Personnel[]

Personnel per booklet, except where noted.[6]

Charts and certifications[]

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