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When You're a Boy is the debut solo album by Susanna Hoffs.[3] It begins with the Billboard Top 40 single "My Side of the Bed", includes the track "Unconditional Love" (co-written by Cyndi Lauper), and ends with a cover of "Boys Keep Swinging", the 1979 song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno. The album's title comes from the lyrics to the latter.[6]

When You're a Boy
Studio album by Susanna Hoffs
Released	January 29, 1991
Recorded	1990
Genre	Rock
Length	45:07
Label	Columbia
Producer	David Kahne
Susanna Hoffs chronology
When You're a Boy (1991) Susanna Hoffs (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
New Musical Express	3/10[2]
Q	[3]
Record Mirror	[4]
Sounds	[5]

The album peaked at No. 83 on the US albums chart.[7]

Three singles were released from the album: "My Side of the Bed", "Unconditional Love", and "Only Love". The first two featured the non-LP B-side "Circus Girl".

Reception

Jimmy Nicol of Q gave the album four out of five stars and wrote, "An album which expands the Bangles' brief into undreamed of territories. She reveals herself to be a highly inventive composer, lyricist – and even humourist ... After all, how many other American pop stars embarking on a solo career would name their album after a late '70s English art-rock 45?"[3]

AllMusic's review was negative, giving it one and a half out of five stars, remarking that "Although the album was released in 1991, it sounds like bad mid-'80s music. Hoffs and the Bangles had a few catchy pop ditties; however, there are none to be found here." [8]

Track listing

Track listing for When You're a Boy

#	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"My Side of the Bed"	Hoffs, Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg	3:29
2.	"No Kind of Love"	Hoffs, David Kahne, Scott Cutler, Ross Rice	3:05
3.	"Wishing On Telstar"	Robin Lane, Jimmy Cipolla	4:11
4.	"That's Why Girls Cry"	David Kahne, Juliana Hatfield, Hoffs	3:59
5.	"Unconditional Love"	Cyndi Lauper, Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg	3:51
6.	"Something New"	John Hanes, Cary Sheldon, Hoffs, David Kahne	3:52
7.	"So Much for Love"	John Hanes, Pearl E. Gates, Peter Dunne, Hilary Hanes	3:33
8.	"This Time"	Steve Summers	2:36
9.	"Only Love"	Hoffs, Diane Warren	4:25
10.	"It's Lonely Out Here"	Hoffs, Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg	3:52
11.	"Made of Stone"	Jennfer Condos, Hoffs, David Kahne	3:13
12.	"Boys Keep Swinging"	David Bowie, Brian Eno	4:59

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for When You're a Boy

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[9]	67
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[10]	51
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[11]	29
UK Albums (OCC)[12]	56
US Billboard 200[7]	83

References

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