Yourself or Someone Like You

Yourself or Someone Like You
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1, 1996 (1996-10-01)
RecordedMay−June 1996
StudioTriclops Recording, Atlanta, Georgia
Genre
Length46:51
Label
ProducerMatt Serletic
Matchbox 20 chronology
Yourself or Someone Like You
(1996)
Mad Season
(2000)
Singles from Yourself or Someone Like You
  1. "Long Day"
    Released: September 16, 1996[1][2]
  2. "Push"
    Released: June 10, 1997
  3. "3AM"
    Released: November 23, 1997
  4. "Real World"
    Released: March 24, 1998[3]
  5. "Back 2 Good"
    Released: September 22, 1998[4]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Christgau's Consumer Guide(1-star Honorable Mention)[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]

Yourself or Someone Like You is the debut album by American rock band Matchbox 20. It was released on October 1, 1996,[8] by Lava Records and Atlantic Records.

  1. ^ "Be on the Lookout". Gavin Report. No. 2118. August 16, 1996. p. 20.
  2. ^ "September's Tunes". Radio & Records. No. 1162. September 6, 1996. p. 89.
  3. ^ "Be on the Lookout". Gavin Report. No. 2197. March 20, 1998. p. 18.
  4. ^ "New Releases". Radio & Records. No. 1266. p. 39.
  5. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Yourself or Someone Like You – Matchbox Twenty". AllMusic. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
  6. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000). "Matchbox 20: Yourself or Someone Like You". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  7. ^ Harris, Keith (2004). "Matchbox Twenty". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 519. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  8. ^ "Rob Thomas reflects on Matchbox Twenty's debut album 20 years later". The A.V. Club.