Magic Hotel

Magic Hotel is the second album by English band Toploader. It's a follow up to their successful 1999 album Onka's Big Moka. The album title is a reference to the hotel, in which they stayed in Los Angeles when recording the album.

Magic Hotel
Studio album by
Toploader
Released19 August 2002
Recorded2001-2002
StudioRAK Studios, London, Ocean Way Recording, Los Angeles
Genre
Length42:40
LabelS2
ProducerDave Eringa
Toploader chronology
Onka's Big Moka
(1999)		 Magic Hotel
(2002)		 Dancing in the Moonlight - The Best of Toploader
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Daily Record(unfavourable)[1]
Evening Standard(mixed)[2]
The Guardian[3]
The Mirror(scathing)[4]
NME(1/10)[5]
Stylus Magazine(F)[6]

It was released to extreme disapproval by an array of critics and didn't match the same success as their debut. Because of this they were dropped by S2 Records, shortly after the band split up and didn't reform until 2009.

Track listing
  1. "Time of My Life" – 03:35
  2. "Cloud 9" – 03:34
  3. "Never Forgotten" – 03:31
  4. "Leave Me Be" – 03:29
  5. "Lady Let Me Shine" – 05:02
  6. "Stupid Games" – 03:29
  7. "Following The Sun" - 03:08
  8. "Only Desire" – 04:03
  9. "Promised Tide" – 04:14
  10. "The Midas Touch" – 05:27
  11. "Some Kind of Wonderful" - 03:13

References
  1. "192: THE BIG REVIEW PAGE; SHINING STAR". Daily Record. Archived at The Free Library. 23 August 2002. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  2. Smyth, David (19 August 2002). "Latest album reviews". Evening Standard. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  3. Sullivan, Caroline (16 August 2002). "Toploader: Magic Hotel". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  4. Martin, Gavin (17 August 2002). "Music: LOADER RUBBISH". The Mirror. Archived at The Free Library. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  5. Dempster, Sarah (6 August 2002). "Toploader : Magic Hotel - Pub rockers' shit second album..." NME. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  6. Monks, Jon (1 September 2003). "Toploader: Magic Hotel". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 5 June 2013.



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