achieved fame for his work producing the Bee Gees' album Saturday Night Fever) and engineer Jack Joseph Puig. Release and promotion Bellybutton was released on July 27, 1990, on Charisma Records. The band embarked on a yearlong tour in support of Bellybutton with Roger Manning's younger brother Chris joining as the band's bassist. While on tour, the band opened up for the bands the Black Crowes and World Party. The album spawned the singles "The King Is Half-Undressed" (which reached No. 19 on Billboard's Modern Rock Chart and No. 39 on the UK Singles Chart), "That Is Why" (which reached No. 11 on Billboard's Modern Rock Chart), "Baby's Coming Back" (which reached No. 62 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and No. 54 on the UK Singles Chart), and “I Wanna Stay Home” (which reached No. 59 on the UK Singles Chart). An extended play was released in support of Bellybutton, titled The Scary-Go-Round E.P. which reached No. 49 on the UK Singles Chart. The home-video Gone Jellyfishin was also issued with the promo videos from Bellybutton ("The King Is Half-Undressed", which was nominated for Best Art Direction at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards, "That Is Why" and "Baby's Coming Back"). The band's music videos were heavily aired on MTV. Reception Bellybutton was released to critical acclaim from contemporary music critics. However, despite a promotional tour and heavy rotation on MTV, the album failed to reach a wide audience and was a commercial disappointment. The album peaked at No. 124 on the Billboard 200. In a review for the newspaper The State, staff writer Michael Miller gave the album five stars and called the album "the best pop album of the year." He describes the album by saying that it incorporated "the inventive melodies of the Beatles, the vocal harmonies of 10CC and contemporary rhythms of XTC and Crowded House". He concludes by saying that "this attention to detail should help Jellyfish float to the top." Reviewer Mat Snow in magazine Q also gave the album a five-star review calling it 'an outstanding debut'. In a retrospective review for the album, Mark Deming of AllMusic says that the band "had all the key ingredients of classic power pop down cold—the sweet but biting melodies, the addictive hooks, the gorgeous stacks of harmonies, and the '60s-styled musical accents—and then revved them up with rock star-proportioned drums and guitars on tunes...". He