Wild Horses (Wild Horses album)
Wild Horses is the debut studio album by the British rock band, Wild Horses, co-produced with Trevor Rabin at Konk Studios in London, and released on 14 April 1980 on EMI Records. It peaked at No. 38, and spent four weeks in the UK Albums Chart.[3]
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| Released | 14 April 1980 | |||
| Recorded | December 1979 to January 1980 | |||
| Studio | Konk Studios, Hornsey, London | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 36:43 | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Producer | Trevor Rabin, Wild Horses | |||
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| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 6/10[2] |
It was subsequently issued on CD in Japan in 1993 on Toshiba-EMI, and by the now defunct UK labels Zoom Club in 1999 and Krescendo Records in 2009, respectively, both with the title The First Album. The most recent re-issue came in February 2013, courtesy of UK-based Rock Candy Records, and includes a host of unreleased studios demos as bonus tracks not found on previous re-issues.
Track listing
All songs by Jimmy Bain and Brian Robertson, except where noted
- Side one
- "Reservation" - 3:47
- "Face Down" - 3:30
- "Blackmail" - 2:25
- "Flyaway" (Bain, Phil Lynott) - 3:33
- "Dealer" (Bain, Robertson, Scott Gorham) - 4:56
- Side two
- "Street Girl" - 3:28
- "No Strings Attached" - 3:56
- "Criminal Tendencies" - 3:46
- "Nights on the Town" - 3:21
- "Woman" - 4:01
Zoom Club re-issue bonus tracks
- "Rocky Mountain Way" (Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli) - 4:33 (live in Osaka, Japan)
- "Saturday Night" (Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper) - 7:20 (live in Osaka, Japan)
Krescendo re-issue bonus tracks
- "The Axe" (live from BBC 'In Concert', 1981)
- "In the City" (live from BBC 'In Concert', 1981)
- "New York City" (live from BBC 'In Concert', 1981)
Rock Candy re-issue bonus tracks
- "The Rapist" - 3:37 (B-side of "Criminal Tendencies" single)
- "Reservation" (demo) - 4:22
- "Blackmail" (demo) - 2:41
- "Flyaway" (demo) - 3:12 (featuring Phil Lynott)
- "Dealer" (demo) - 4:49
- "The Rapist" (demo) - 3:38
- "Retribution" (demo) - 5:22
- "Breathe on Me" (demo) - 5:51
Personnel
- Wild Horses
- Brian Robertson - lead guitars, backing and lead (3, 9) vocals, bass (4, 9), arrangements
- Neil Carter - lead guitars, backing vocals, keyboards
- Jimmy Bain - bass (1-3, 5-8, 10), lead vocals (1, 2, 4-8, 10), rhythm guitars, keyboards, arrangements
- Clive Edwards - drums
- Production
- Trevor Rabin - producer
- John Rollo - engineer
Release history
| Date | Region | Label | Catalogue | Format | Notes |
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| 14 April 1980 | Worldwide | EMI Records | EMC3326 | vinyl | |
| 1980 | Japan | Toshiba-EMI | EMS-81315 | vinyl | |
| 1993 | Japan | Toshiba-EMI/Insideout | TOCP-7975 | CD | |
| 1999 | UK | Zoom Club | ZCRCD22 | CD | with the title The First Album |
| 2009 | UK | Krescendo | KRECD32 | CD | with the title The First Album |
| 2013 | UK | Rock Candy | CANDY168 | CD |
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References
- Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Wild Horses The First Album review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
- Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 414–415. ISBN 978-1894959315.
- Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 602. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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