"Coming Up Roses" is the second single from the third studio album '' Come Clean'' by

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. It was released on 4 May 1998 and it reached #51 in the

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mix of this song was included on the disc 2 of Curve's compilation ''

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Track listing

CD 1

#"Coming Up Roses" (Jeremy Wheatley's Radio mix) – 3:51 #"Coming Up Roses" (Talvin Singh remix) – 8:09 #"Midnight & Royal" – 4:45 #"Habit" – 4:12

CD 2

#"Coming Up Roses" (Jeremy Wheatley's Full mix) – 4:00 #"Coming Up Roses" (Blue Amazon's Crystaline Vocal mix) – 6:01 #"Coming Up Roses" (Red Star Yellow Star mix) – 9:06 #"Coming Up Roses" (Danny Saber Full Length mix) – 5:21 #"Coming Up Roses" (Kevin Shields mix) – 6:20

12"

#"Coming Up Roses" (Blue Amazon's Crystaline Vocal mix) – 6:01 #"Coming Up Roses" (Blue Amazon's Quad Club mix) – 10:45 #"Coming Up Roses" (Jeremy Wheatley's Full mix) – 4:00 #"Coming Up Roses" (Talvin Singh remix) – 8:09

Credits

* Written by

Toni Halliday Antoinette "Toni" Halliday (born 5 July 1964) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and occasional guitarist of the alternative rock band Curve, along with Dean Garcia. She was also a member of the bands Photofitz, ...

and

Dean Garcia Dean Garcia (born 3 May 1958) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, best known as a member of the alternative rock duo Curve from 1990 to 2005. He also released solo work and collaborated with many other artists. Biography Garcia was ...

* Produced by

Steve Osborne Stephen John "Steve" Osborne (born 1963) is a British record producer, living in Bath, England. He has worked with a wide variety of musicians, including Suede, the B-52s, A-ha, New Order, Elbow, U2, Happy Mondays, Placebo, Gregory Porter, Do ...

and Curve, engineered and mixed by

Alan Moulder Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is an English record producer, mixing engineer, and audio engineer. Early life Moulder was born on 11 June 1959 in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Boston Grammar School. He had an interest in music from ...

(except "Midnight & Royal" and "Habit" produced and mixed by Curve at Todal)

References

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