Keep Your Distance

Keep Your Distance
Studio album by Curiosity Killed the Cat
Released April 1987
Genre Sophisti-pop[1]
Length 64:13
Label Mercury
Producer Stewart Levine
Curiosity Killed the Cat chronology
Keep Your Distance
(1987)		 Getahead
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Keep Your Distance is the debut album by the British band Curiosity Killed the Cat, released in April 1987. It debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart, and is their only album to chart on the Billboard 200, reaching #55.

Track listing

All songs written by Curiosity Killed the Cat and Toby Anderson except as indicated.

  1. "Misfit" – 4:03
  2. "Down to Earth" – 4:19
  3. "Free" – 4:00
  4. "Know What You Know" – 3:50
  5. "Curiosity Killed the Cat" – 3:20
  6. "Ordinary Day" – 3:51
  7. "Mile High" – 4:04
  8. "Red Lights" – 5:33
  9. "Shallow Memory" – 4:25
Original CD bonus tracks
  1. "Misfit" (extended version) – 7:03
  2. "Down to Earth" (extended version) – 5:58
  3. "Ordinary Day" (extraordinary mix) – 5:22
  4. "Mile High" (mile long mix) – 8:10
2010 reissue bonus tracks
  1. "Bullet" – 3:40
  2. "Man" – 3:33
  3. "Corruption" (dub) – 5:26

Charts

Chart (1987)[3][4][5] Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart 47
Austrian Albums Chart 20
Dutch Albums Chart 9
German Albums Chart 29
Italian Albums Chart 8
New Zealand Albums Chart 19
Swedish Albums Chart 32
Swiss Albums Chart 7
UK Albums Chart 1
US Billboard 200 55

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[6] Platinum 300,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Year-end charts

Chart (1987) Peak
position
Dutch Albums Chart[7] 63
Italian Albums Chart[8] 26
UK Albums Chart[9] 24
Preceded by
Now That's What I Call Music 9 by Various Artists		 UK number-one album
9 May 1987 – 22 May 1987 		Succeeded by
It's Better To Travel by Swing Out Sister

Notes

  1. ↑ Inskeep, Thomas; Soto, Alfred. "The Bluffer's Guide – Sophisti-Pop". Stylus. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Keep Your Distance at AllMusic
  3. ↑ http://swisscharts.com/album/Curiosity-Killed-The-Cat/Keep-Your-Distance-557
  4. ↑ http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/hp_yenda/lpe1987.htm
  5. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  6. ↑ "British album certifications – Curiosity Killed the Cat – Keep Your Distance". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 25 July 2012. Enter Keep Your Distance in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Platinum in the field By Award. Click Search
  7. ↑ http://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1987&cat=a
  8. ↑ http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/hp_yenda/lpe1987.htm
  9. ↑ "Gallup Year End Charts 1987: Albums". Record Mirror. London, England: Spotlight Publications: 37. 23 January 1988.
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