Yourself or Someone Like You Tracklist
Yourself or Someone Like You is the first studio album by Matchbox Twenty, and was released on October 1, 1996 under the label Emblem/Atlantic.
It was certified 12x Platinum over four years later on October 22, 2001, by the RIAA.
The album spawned 6 singles which were met with variable reception: “Long Day”, “Push”, “3 a.m.”, “Real World”, “Back 2 Good”, and “Girl Like That”.
According to an AV Club interview, Rob Thomas wrote this album in “the five- or six-month period” before they recorded it, due to not wanting to give former band mates (from Tabitha’s Secret) undue credit. Thomas referred to the album as “kind of like [his] second record in a way,” due to having worked on an entire album’s worth of material before.
They then practiced for an entire month straight in a storage shed, before going to a recording studio to record the album.
Thomas has also said that he has a personal connection to the song “3 a.m.” (due to it’s contents being about his mother dealing with cancer), and that “Back 2 Good”“ "holds up” the most of all other songs on the album.
