''Welcome to Poppy's'' is the fourth studio album by American rap rock band

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. It was released on September 9, 2003 through

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. Recording sessions took place at The Magic Shop in

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. Production was handled by the band themselves. The album debuted at number 20 on the

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, number 15 on the Scottish Albums Chart and number 4 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. It also made it to number 88 on the

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. Its

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, "Too Hot", peaked at number 61 on the

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and number 9 on the UK Independent Singles Chart. The second single off of the album, "Beautiful", reached number 41 on the UK Independent Singles Chart. The song "Lost It All" was released as a

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between the two.

Track listing

Personnel

— songwriters, arrangers, producers *Jay Jay — backing vocals (track 13) *Mark Francis "

Frank Benbini Frank Benbini (born Mark Francis Reid, 21 September 1976 in Leicester, England) is the British drummer and one third of Fun Lovin' Criminals (FLC). He is also known as Uncle Frank and TRM which stands for "The Rhythm Man". Benbini is a singer, re ...

" Reid — backing vocals (track 15) *

Timo Ellis Timothy Kneeland "Timo" Ellis is a multi-instrumentalist and record producer from New York City, and is frontman vocalist for the band Netherlands. In 1997 Ellis and Sean Lennon joined Cibo Matto. As a quartet (Yuka Honda, Miho Hatori, Ellis, ...

— drums *Mackie Jayson — drums (tracks: 3, 10, 12, 13, 14) *

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— arranger (track 4) *

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— recording, mixing *Juan Garcia — recording assistant *Sean Taylor — mixing assistant *

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— mastering *UE Nastasi — mastering (track 15) *Gabriel Hunter — art direction, artwork, photography *Jonathan Block — management

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2003 albums Sanctuary Records albums Fun Lovin' Criminals albums