Bellybutton is the debut album by American rock band Jellyfish, released on July 27, 1990, on Charisma Records.

The album was recorded in Schnee Studios in North Hollywood and produced by Albhy Galuten and Jack Joseph Puig.

Jason Falkner during this time was the lead guitarist for the Three O’Clock, a Los Angeles-based Paisley Underground band.

Manning and Sturmer soon began collaborating, writing compositions that were stylistically different from the songs the band was producing at the time.

Falkner recalled Manning going up to him in tears and exclaiming, “Screw this, It’s too hard.”[7] The album was recorded at Schnee Studios in North Hollywood.

Falkner performed the majority of the bass tracks on the album; the group was also accompanied by Steven Shane McDonald.

[7] However, despite a promotional tour and heavy rotation on MTV, the album failed to reach a wide audience[clarification needed] and was a commercial disappointment.

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".

[19] 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 cites the songs "All I Want is Everything", "The King is Half-Undressed", "I Wanna Stay Home", and "Baby's Coming Back" as album highlights.

He concludes by saying that the band "left behind a great pop record that also rocks hard, no small achievement.