Emotion & Commotion

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Emotion & Commotion
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Studio album by
Released10 April 2010
Genre
Length40:19
Label Atco
Producer Steve Lipson, Trevor Horn
Jeff Beck chronology
Jeff
(2003)
Emotion & Commotion
(2010)
Loud Hailer
(2016)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Los Angeles Times (ambivalent) [4]
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Emotion & Commotion is the tenth studio album by guitarist Jeff Beck, released in April 2010 on Atco Records. In addition to featuring vocal performances by Joss Stone, Imelda May, and Olivia Safe, the album showcases a 64-piece orchestra on several tracks, and includes covers of well-known songs such as "Over the Rainbow", "Corpus Christi Carol", "Lilac Wine", and other rock and classical works. [6]

Contents

Chart performance

The album debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 in the US, with sales of 26,000, Beck's highest debut in his 45-year career. His highest charting album is Blow by Blow produced by George Martin, which peaked at No. 4 in 1975 on the US Billboard album chart. The album has sold 123,000 copies in the US as of July 2016. [7]

The album reached No. 21 in the UK and debuted at No. 9 in Canada. The album debuted at No. 1 in Japan on the Weekly International Album Sales Chart. It charted at No. 49 on the Australian charts, marking the first time Jeff Beck has appeared on the Australian album charts since Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop reached No. 99 in 1989.

The song "Hammerhead" won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The track "Nessun Dorma" won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Corpus Christi Carol" Benjamin Britten 2:40
2."Hammerhead" Jeff Beck, Jason Rebello 4:15
3."Never Alone"Rebello4:22
4."Over the Rainbow" Harold Arlen 3:10
5."I Put a Spell on You" (featuring Joss Stone) Screamin' Jay Hawkins 2:59
6."Serene" (featuring Olivia Safe)Beck, Rebello6:05
7."Lilac Wine" (featuring Imelda May) James Shelton 4:44
8."Nessun Dorma" Giacomo Puccini 2:56
9."There's No Other Me" (featuring Joss Stone)Rebello, Joss Stone4:05
10."Elegy for Dunkirk" (featuring Olivia Safe) Dario Marianelli 5:03
Total length:40:19
iTunes bonus track/Japanese bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Poor Boy" (featuring Imelda May) Traditional 4:42
Japanese bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Cry Me a River" Arthur Hamilton 4:31

Personnel

Technical

Charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [8] 49
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] 44
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 87
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [11] 9
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [12] 77
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [13] 35
French Albums (SNEP) [14] 74
German Albums Chart [15] 30
Greek Albums (IFPI Greece) [16] 17
Italian Albums (FIMI) [17] 56
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [18] 9
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [19] 17
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [20] 35
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [21] 40
UK Albums (OCC) [22] 21
US Billboard 200 [23] 11
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [24] 3

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