In Flight (Linda Perry album)

In Flight
Studio album by Linda Perry
Released	Sept. 16, 1996 (original) Oct. 11, 2005 (re-release)
Genre	Alternative rock, blues rock
Length	58:18
Label	Interscope (original) Custard Records, Kill Rock Stars (re-release)
Producer	Bill Bottrell, Linda Perry
Linda Perry chronology
In Flight (1996) After Hours (1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The A.V. Club	(unfavorable) [2]
Chicago Tribune	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	D (1996) [4] C+ (2005)[5]
Los Angeles Times	[6]
People	(favorable) [7]
Q	[8]
Robert Christgau	[9]

In Flight is the first solo album by singer and producer Linda Perry, released in 1996. It was produced by Bill Bottrell (Sheryl Crow, Michael Jackson). Perry re-released the album in 2005 on her own record label Custard Records. The re-release contains original videos from the singles "Freeway" and "Fill Me Up". Perry says that Interscope, her record label in 1996, which had been hoping for something a little catchier than In Flight, didn't promote the album, and the disappointing sales rattled her. "My gut feeling that I relied on failed me. . . . I was devastated", Perry says.

Track listing

All music & lyrics written by Linda Perry, published by Famous Music Corp. o/b/o Itself and Stuck In The Troat Music (ASCAP) except where noted

1. "In My Dreams" – 5:26
2. "Freeway" – 5:54
3. "Uninvited" – 4:24
4. "Success" (Bill Bottrell, Perry) – 5:25
5. "Life In A Bottle" – 4:21
6. "Fill Me Up" – 5:00
7. "Knock Me Out" (Perry, Marty Willson-Piper, Grace Slick) – 6:50
8. "Too Deep" – 5:37
9. "Taken" – 3:38
10. "Fruitloop Daydream" (Perry, Bottrell, Brian MacLeod, Kevin Gilbert, Dan Schwartz) – 3:15
11. "Machine Man" (Perry, MacLeod, Gilbert, Schwartz) – 3:20
12. "In Flight" – 5:03

Re-Release Music Videos

1. "Fill Me Up" (Music Video) - 4:44
2. "Freeway" (Music Video) - 4:35

Leftovers

• "Bill": Perry explains "Bill" as "like a mini rock opera, that I didn't put on the new album because it was too big of a production for me to deal with right now". She performed the song live on her unplugged concert "At Moondog Cafe", 1998.
• "Shame": B-side to "Fill Me Up" single.
• "Blow": B-side to "Freeway" single.

Album information

• In Flight was described by Perry as a "mini-concept album" inspired by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon - she says it's something she would like to have done earlier in her career but "I didn't have enough influence in the band." Some songs, like "In My Dreams" & "Too Deep", were already written at the 4 Non Blondes-time but they never recorded the songs.
• "Knock Me Out" was featured on the soundtrack of the film The Crow: City of Angels.

Personnel

• Linda Perry – guitars, piano, bass
• Bill Bottrell – guitars, bass, drums
• Kevin Gilbert – keyboards, guitars
• Dan Schwartz – bass, steel guitar
• Brian MacLeod – drums, percussion
• Lisa Germano – violin (appears courtesy of 4AD Records)

Additional Personnel

• Grace Slick – vocals on "Knock Me Out"

Production

• Bill Bottrell – producer
• Linda Perry – co-producer
• Blair Lamb and Mark Cross – engineers
• Recorded at Toad Hall
• Mastered by Joe Gastwirt
• Tom Whalley – A&R direction
• Jill Rose – project coordination

References