• ' Released: 23 April 2001 • 'Powder Blue' Released: 9 July 2001 • ' Released: 8 October 2001 • ' Released: 4 February 2002 Asleep in the Back is the debut studio album by English band, first released in May 2001. The title track, 'Asleep in the Back', was only included as a bonus track on later editions of the album after it had been released as a single and became the band's first Top 20 hit. The album release came in four different versions: the 12-track version, two 11-track versions only featuring either 'Asleep in the Back' (later editions) or 'Can't Stop' (UK version) and a 10-track version including neither of them. The record was shortlisted for the in 2001. Though Asleep in the Back was the first Elbow album to be released, it was not the first to be recorded. Baieti Buni Episodul 8.

An album's worth of recorded material had been scrapped by the band several years earlier after they were dropped by their first major label,. A 2CD/1DVD deluxe edition of the album was released in the UK on 2 November 2009. The release included almost all tracks of the near impossible to find: a live version of 'George Lassoes the Moon' was included instead of the studio version. Hera Trials Of The Goddess Obscura Camera there.

Contents • • • • • • • Critical reception [ ] Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating 82/100 Review scores Source Rating B− 9/10 7.4/10 (2002) 8.4/10 (2009) 6/10 listed Asleep in the Back as one of the best 50 albums of 2001. Track listing [ ] All tracks written by Elbow; all lyrics. Asleep in the Back album No. Title Length 1. 'Any Day Now' 6:17 2. 'Little Beast' 4:15 4. 'Powder Blue' 4:31 5.