Waiting for My Rocket to Come

by Jason Mraz

Waiting for My Rocket to Come cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 October 2002
  • Label: Elektra
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 48:02
  • Community rating: 2.46/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Propelled by rapid-fire wordplay and an infectiously upbeat acoustic sensibility, this debut album quickly established a formidable presence in the early-2000s singer-songwriter boom. The record balances playful, highly rhythmic pop-rock anthems with earnest melodic balladry.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. You and I Both (3:38)
  2. I'll Do Anything (3:11)
  3. The Remedy (I Won't Worry) (4:16)
  4. Who Needs Shelter (3:12)
  5. Curbside Prophet (3:34)
  6. Sleep All Day (4:56)
  7. Too Much Food (3:41)
  8. Absolutely Zero (5:39)
  9. On Love, in Sadness (3:28)
  10. No Stopping Us (3:18)
  11. The Boy's Gone (4:15)
  12. Tonight, Not Again (4:49)

Credits

  • Stewart Myers - bass
  • Brian Jones - drums
  • Alex McCallum - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, keyboards [wurlitzer], synthesizer
  • Michael Andrews - electric guitar, lap steel guitar, ukulele, acoustic guitar [slide], celesta, mellotron, acoustic guitar [slide], banjo, electric guitar [chorus], arranged by [horns]
  • Greg Kurstin - keyboards [clavinet], organ, electric piano, synthesizer, piano [electric], keyboards [fender rhodes]
  • Toca Rivera - performer [ebo], backing vocals, tambourine, djembe
  • Dane Venable - product manager
  • Billy "Bushwalla" Galewood - lyrics by [additional]

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