Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
The Cranberries - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee.png
International cover. The UK special edition uses a similar, brighter image
Studio album by
The Cranberries
Released22 October 2001
Recorded2000–2001
Genre
Length44:23
LabelMCA
ProducerStephen Street
The Cranberries albums chronology
Bury the Hatchet
(1999) 		Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
(2001) 		Treasure Box – The Complete Sessions 1991–1999
(2002)
Alternate cover
North American cover. Japanese edition uses a similar image of the clustered gym balls on a grass field
North American cover. Japanese edition uses a similar image of the clustered gym balls on a grass field
Singles from Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
  1. "Analyse"
    Released: 18 September 2001
  2. "Time Is Ticking Out"
    Released: 12 March 2002
  3. "This Is the Day"
    Released: 16 July 2002
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic62/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3/5 stars[2]
Alternative Press3/5 stars[1]
Blender4/5 stars[1]
E! OnlineC+[1]
Entertainment WeeklyC−[3]
Q3/5 stars[1]
Slant Magazine3/5 stars[4]

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is the fifth studio album by Irish alternative rock[5] band The Cranberries, and their last before their six-year hiatus. Released on 22 October 2001, the album sold 170,000 copies in the US by April 2007.[6] Worldwide, the album had sold 1,300,000 copies by 2002.[7]

This marks the band's only album on MCA Records. They were transferred to MCA after the merger of PolyGram (which owned their previous label, Island Records) with MCA's parent Universal Music Group in 1999. The album was never released on vinyl.

Artwork[]

Several different covers exist for the album, with the most widely distributed being a man lying in a bed on the beach with gym balls moving towards him. Later European editions, namely the UK special edition, use a similar, brighter shot taken at a different time of day with a slightly different number of gym balls. The American version of the album uses a shot of the clustered gym balls as the main cover art, with the man in bed on the reverse side of the image (the other side of the booklet). The Japanese edition also uses a shot of the gym balls, but bouncing on a grass field instead of the beach.

Designer Storm Thorgerson, who also designed the cover of their previous album, Bury the Hatchet,[7] said: "The idea of red balls came from granules of coffee percolating the atmosphere, settling in your nose and waking you up. These became red (cranberries) and then enlarged to gym balls to satisfy our rampant egos. The location changed from an interior to an open space. Because this idea was preposterous, it needed testing before we did the proper thing on a beach in Somerset. The test... was done on a small grass aerodrome near London."[8]

The version of the artwork featuring a man in bed on the beach is similar in concept to another Thorgerson creation, Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Thorgerson's anomalous red balls recall another of his earlier album covers, Elegy by The Nice (1970).

Track listing[]

All lyrics are written by Dolores O'Riordan; all music is composed by O'Riordan except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Never Grow Old" 2:35
2."Analyse" 4:10
3."Time Is Ticking Out"O'Riordan, Noel Hogan2:59
4."Dying Inside"O'Riordan, Hogan3:10
5."This Is the Day" 4:15
6."The Concept" 3:03
7."Wake Up and Smell the Coffee"O'Riordan, Hogan5:15
8."Pretty Eyes" 3:48
9."I Really Hope"O'Riordan, Hogan3:42
10."Every Morning" 2:24
11."Do You Know" 3:09
12."Carry On" 2:21
13."Chocolate Brown"O'Riordan, Hogan3:32
US bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."Cape Town"O'Riordan, Hogan2:48
UK bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."Dreams" (live in Paris)O'Riordan, Hogan4:37
15."Promises" (live in Paris) 5:06
16."In the Ghetto" (Elvis Presley cover)Mac Davis2:42
International bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."Salvation" (live in Paris)O'Riordan, Hogan2:35
15."In the Ghetto" (Elvis Presley cover)Davis2:42
Japan bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."I Can't Be with You" (live in Paris)O'Riordan, Hogan3:13
15."Zombie" (live in Paris) 5:26
16."In the Ghetto" (Elvis Presley cover)Davis2:42

Non-album tracks[]

Song Length Physical/digital release(s)
"In the Ghetto" 2:42

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee [UK edition] (bonus track)
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee [International edition] (bonus track)
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee [Japan edition] (bonus track)

"Cape Town" 2:48

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee [North American edition] (bonus track)
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee [Asian tour edition] (bonus track)

"Many Days" 2:43

Digital format on The Cranberries website
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee [Asian tour edition] (bonus track)

"Such a Waste" 2:31 "This Is the Day" single (B-side)[9]
"7 Years" 2:46 Wake Up and Smell the Coffee [promo CD]

Personnel[]

  • Dolores O'Riordan – vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Noel Hogan – electric and acoustic guitars
  • Mike Hogan – bass guitar
  • Fergal Lawler – drums and percussion

Charts[]

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[30] Gold 50,000^
France (SNEP)[32] Platinum 325,300[31]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[33] Gold 50,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[34] Gold 20,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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