Reception
Performance and Cocktails was a surprise commercial success, giving the Stereophonics three straight top five singles in the British charts with "The Bartender and the Thief" reaching #3, and both "Just Looking" and "Pick a Part That's New" reaching #4. The album itself was a big success, topping the UK Albums Chart selling 119,954 copies in its first week and going on to become the fifth best selling album in the UK in 1999. To date, it has sold over two million copies worldwide. Such was the album's persistence, that it re-entered the UK charts over four years after its initial release, reaching #25 in January 2004. It spent 98 weeks in total in the UK top 100 charts, the most for a Stereophonics album, in the process being certified 5x platinum.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)