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One Bad Habit is a vocal album by Michael Franks, released in 1980 by Warner Bros. Records.[3] It was Franks' sixth studio album and the first to receive significant radio play in the United States.

One Bad Habit
Studio album by
Michael Franks
Released
  • 1980 (1980) on vinyl
  • 1988 (1988) on CD
Studio
  • Power Station (New York)
  • Capitol (Hollywood)
GenreJazz
Length38:08
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerTommy LiPuma, André Fischer
Michael Franks chronology
Tiger in the Rain
(1979)		 One Bad Habit
(1980)		 Michael Franks with Crossfire Live
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

Critical reception


A review in the May 3, 1980, issue of Billboard lauded Franks's "cool, airy harmonies gliding over his silky melodylines [sic]" and noted that the songs "He Tells Himself He's Happy" and "Still Life" are reminiscent of Paul Simon's "I Do It for Your Love" and "Still Crazy After All These Years" because of their "understated lyrical beauty."[4] (Later in 1980 Simon released One-Trick Pony, his follow-up to 1975's Still Crazy After All These Years as well as the soundtrack album to the film of the same name, written by and starring Simon; in his review for Rolling Stone magazine, Stephen Holden referred to the tracks "That's Why God Made the Movies" and "Oh, Marion" as "lighter exercises in the hip-jive style of Michael Franks.")[5]


Track listing


All tracks are written by Michael Franks, unless otherwise noted.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Baseball" 3:50
2."Inside You" 4:11
3."All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go" 3:47
4."Lotus Blossom"Michael Franks, Don Grolnick4:15
5."On My Way Home to You" 4:52
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."One Bad Habit"4:06
2."Loving You More and More"3:44
3."Still Life"4:12
4."He Tells Himself He's Happy"5:11

Charts


Chart (1980) Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)76[6]

Personnel



Musicians



Support



References


  1. "AllMusic review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 79. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. "Discography in Order of Release". MichaelFranks.com. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
  4. "Review: Michael Franks — One Bad Habit" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 85, no. 18. 3 May 1980. p. 50. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via American Radio History.
  5. Holden, Stephen (October 16, 1980). "One-Trick Pony". Rolling Stone. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 118. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

Bibliography




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