{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = A Hundred Lovers | type = Album | artist = Timbuk 3 | cover = A hundred lovers.jpg | alt = | released = 1995 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = | label = High Street<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRsxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176|title=The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica|first=PETER|last=KRAMPERT|date=March 23, 2016|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-1-61911-577-4 |via=Google Books}}</ref> | producer = Pat MacDonald, Barbara K | prev_title = Espace Ornano | prev_year = 1993 | next_title = | next_year = }} '''''A Hundred Lovers''''' is the final album by the American band Timbuk 3.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2000-11-24/79503/|title=The Future's Still Bright|website=www.austinchronicle.com}}</ref> It was released in 1995.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Top 75 |journal=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=May 1995 |issue=21 |page=54}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/839/you-say-its-your-birthday-timbuk3s-pat-macdonald/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524201528/http://www.mtv.com/news/839/you-say-its-your-birthday-timbuk3s-pat-macdonald/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 24, 2022|title=You Say It's Your Birthday: Timbuk3's Pat MacDonald|website=MTV News}}</ref> The title track was a minor radio hit.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Newcomb |first1=Brian Q. |title=TIMBUK 3: THE REQUISITE CREATIVE TALENTS ARE STILL THERE |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=8 June 1995 |page=4F}}</ref>
==Production== Recorded by Timbuk 3 as a quartet, the album was produced by Pat MacDonald and Barbara K.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Roos |first1=John |title=3 – 1 = 1 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=28 Jan 1998 |page=F2}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Album reviews — A Hundred Lovers by Timbuk 3 |magazine=Billboard |date=Feb 18, 1995 |volume=107 |issue=7 |page=66}}</ref> The band used their home studio, as well as, for parts of one track, Jackson Browne's.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beal Jr. |first1=Jim |title=Shoot from the hip |work=San Antonio Express-News |date=June 16, 1995 |department=Arts}}</ref> "Legalize Our Love" is a pro-gay marriage song.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dishneau |first1=David |title='A HUNDRED LOVERS': SOME CRANKY ROCK FROM TIMBUK 3 |work=Staten Island Advance |agency=Associated Press |date=March 19, 1995 |page=E2}}</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r209741}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' |rev2score = {{rating|2.5|4}}<ref name="AJ">{{cite news |last1=Townsend |first1=Bob |title=FOLK |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=February 18, 1995 |page=L22}}</ref> |rev3 = ''Calgary Herald'' |rev3score = D<ref name="CH">{{cite news |last1=McEwen |first1=Mary-Lynn |title=Recent Releases |work=Calgary Herald |date=16 Apr 1995 |page=C2}}</ref> |rev4 = Robert Christgau |rev4score = {{Rating-Christgau|neither}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1586&name=Timbuk+3|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Timbuk 3|website=robertchristgau.com}}</ref> |rev5 = ''Rolling Stone'' |rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite news |title=A HUNDRED LOVERS: Timbuk 3 |work=News & Record |agency=Rolling Stone |date=February 24, 1995 |page=W10}}</ref> |rev6 = ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music'' |rev6score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music |date=1997 |publisher=MUZE |page=443}}</ref> }} ''Trouser Press'' wrote: "Irritation at the state of the world remains the order of the day, but messages come wrapped in vibrant, funky sounds."<ref>{{cite web |title=Timbuk 3 |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/timbuk-3/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=24 May 2022}}</ref> ''People'' determined that "the dance grooves get a little stale, but the MacDonalds still sound assured on acoustic gems like 'Prey'."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-a-hundred-lovers-vol-43-no-9/|title=Picks and Pans Review: A Hundred Lovers|website=PEOPLE.com}}</ref> The ''Calgary Herald'' deemed the album "proficient pop smothered in generic harmonies, guy-girl vocal trade-offs, smitten here and there by anemically funky riffs."<ref name=CH/>
The ''Vancouver Sun'' called it "a collection of catchy, folk-tinted pop numbers with an upbeat feel."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Monk |first1=Katherine |title=Austin arms help soothe disappointment |work=Vancouver Sun |date=25 May 1995 |page=C3}}</ref> ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' concluded that "those who have always loved their cynically mellow attitude, deadpan harmonies and unrelenting wordplay will be delighted."<ref name=AJ/>
==Track listing== # "Sunshine Is Dangerous" # "A Hundred Lovers" # "Just Wanna Funk with Your Mind" # "Legalize Our Love" # "Cynical" # "Not Yet Gone" # "Prey" # "Shotgun Wedding" # "Kitchen Fire" # "Inside Out"
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