Funky Dory

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The Observer critic Peter Robinson called Funky Dory "an excellent album. It's stylish, decadent and temperamental, and it's teeming with melodrama: like a Geri Halliwell album, but not crap. And there's a total absence of desperation. While Halliwell's first album was about killing off Ginger, Stevens is not lumbered with any such task since, despite having spent half a decade as one of pop's biggest names, Rachel had no personality [...] Twelve-year-olds will rightly believe they're too old for S Club 8, but they won't be very impressed with the taut New Jill Swing of "I Got the Money", while the steely "Silk" (Erotica-era Madonna with Britney's "I'm a Slave 4 U" verse melody and a sudden, magnificent James Bond flourish in the middle eight) is cool and sassy but a massive Hi-NRG overhaul away from prompting a "Reach"-style amyl nitrate moment down at G-A-Y."

Funky Dory debuted and peaked at number nine on the UK Albums Chart. The album was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) after three days and reached gold status on 10 October 2003. It descended from the top-seventy-five after six weeks. The albums re-issue debuted at number thirteen on the UK Albums Chart in 2004, selling 14,600 copies in its first week, becoming the hundred and eightieth best-selling album of 2004 in the UK. Together, both editions have sold over 110,000 copies in the UK.

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| title1 = Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex

| length1 = 3:28

| writer1 = {{hlist|Cathy Dennis|Henrik Jonback|Christian Karlsson|Pontus Winnberg}}

| extra1 = Bloodshy & Avant

| title2 = Funky Dory

| length2 = 3:12

| writer2 = {{hlist|David Bowie|Gary Clark|Martin Brammer}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|David Eriksen|Martin Sjølie}}

| title3 = Fools

| length3 = 3:13

| writer3 = {{hlist|Anders Bagge|Arnthor Birgisson|Karen Poole}}

| extra3 = BAG & Arnthor

| title4 = Breathe In, Breathe Out

| length4 = 3:14

| writer4 = {{hlist|Daniel Thørnqvist|Rikard Lögfgren}}

| extra4 = Stephen Lipson

| title5 = Glide

| length5 = 3:38

| writer5 = {{hlist|Dennis|Karlsson|Jonback|Winnberg}}

| extra5 = Bloodshy & Avant

| title6 = Heaven Has to Wait

| length6 = 4:10

| writer6 = {{hlist|Bagge|Birgisson|Dennis}}

| extra6 = Bloodshy & Avant

| title7 = Blue Afternoon

| length7 = 4:14

| writer7 = {{hlist|Henrik Korpi|Mathias Johansson|Yak Bondy}}

| extra7 = Bondy

| title8 = I Got the Money

| length8 = 4:05

| writer8 = {{hlist|Ben Chapman|Lucie Silvas|Martin Harrington}}

| extra8 = {{hlist|Chapman|Harrington}}

| title9 = Little Secret

| length9 = 3:28

| writer9 = {{hlist|Dennis|Guy Chambers}}

| extra9 = Eriksen

| title10 = Solid

| length10 = 3:47

| writer10 = {{hlist|Børge Petersen-Øverleir|Eriksen|Lisa Greene}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Eriksen|Sjølie}}

| title11 = Silk

| length11 = 3:36

| writer11 = {{hlist|Silvas|Michael Peden|Tom Nicholls}}

| extra11 = Peden

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{{Track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| headline = United Kingdom edition and 2023 digital reissue bonus track

| title12 = Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex

| note12 = Bimbo Jones Club Mix

| length12 = 6:46

| writer12 = {{hlist|Dennis|Karlsson|Jonback|Winnberg}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|Bloodshy & Avant|Bimbo Jones{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

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| headline = 2004 reissue

| extra_column = Producer(s)

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| title1 = Some Girls

| length1 = 3:34

| writer1 = {{hlist|Hannah Robinson|Richard X}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|Richard X|Pete Hofmann{{ref|b|[b]}}}}

| title2 = Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex

| length2 = 3:28

| writer2 = {{hlist|Dennis|Jonback|Karlsson|Winnberg}}

| extra2 = Bloodshy & Avant

| title3 = Funky Dory

| note3 = single version

| length3 = 3:13

| writer3 = {{hlist|Bowie|Clark|Brammer}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|Eriksen|Sjølie|Jeremy Wheatley{{ref|b|[b]}}|Brio Taliaferro{{ref|b|[b]}}}}

| title4 = Fools

| length4 = 3:13

| writer4 = {{hlist|Bagge|Birgisson|Poole}}

| extra4 = BAG & Arnthor

| title5 = Breathe In, Breathe Out

| note5 = SWAT-Team version

| length5 = 3:14

| writer5 = {{hlist|Thørnqvist|Lögfgren}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Bob Robinson|Colin Wolfe|Dallas Austin|Xavier Hargrove}}

| title6 = Glide

| length6 = 3:38

| writer6 = {{hlist|Dennis|Karlsson|Jonback|Winnberg}}

| extra6 = Bloodshy & Avant

| title7 = Heaven Has to Wait

| length7 = 4:10

| writer7 = {{hlist|Bagge|Birgisson|Dennis}}

| extra7 = Bloodshy & Avant

| title8 = More, More, More

| length8 = 3:33

| writer8 = Gregg Diamond

| extra8 = Wild Oscar

| title9 = Blue Afternoon

| length9 = 4:14

| writer9 = {{hlist|Korpi|Johansson|Bondy}}

| extra9 = Bondy

| title10 = I Got the Money

| length10 = 4:05

| writer10 = {{hlist|Chapman|Silvas|Harrington}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Chapman|Harrington}}

| title11 = Little Secret

| length11 = 3:28

| writer11 = {{hlist|Dennis|Chambers}}

| extra11 = Eriksen

| title12 = Solid

| length12 = 3:47

| writer12 = {{hlist|Petersen-Øverleir|Eriksen|Greene}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|Eriksen|Sjølie}}

| title13 = Silk

| length13 = 3:36

| writer13 = {{hlist|Silvas|Peden|Nicholls}}

| extra13 = Peden

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{{Track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| headline = United Kingdom reissue bonus track

| title14 = Some Girls

| note14 = Rhythm Masters Vocal Mix

| length14 = 6:46

| writer14 = {{hlist|Robinson|Richard X}}

| extra14 = {{hlist|Richard X|Hofmann{{ref|b|[b]}}|Rhythm Masters{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

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