Aural Fixations

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Aural Fixations
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 7, 1992 [1]
StudioCherry Beach Sound, His Master's Workshop, The Millbrook Mudroom
Genre Rock
Length55:56
Label Alert (Canada)
Fresh Fruit/SPV (Europe)
Producer Kim Mitchell, John Webster
Kim Mitchell chronology
I Am a Wild Party (Live)
(1990)
Aural Fixations
(1992)
Itch
(1994)
European cover
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 4/10 [3]

Aural Fixations is the fifth album from Canadian singer and guitarist Kim Mitchell. The album was released in 1992 and is certified gold in Canada. This is the first Kim Mitchell album (including the five Max Webster studio albums) that does not include songs co-written with Pye Dubois.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Kim Mitchell and Jim Chevalier, except where indicated

  1. "World's Such a Wonder" – 4:57
  2. "Pure as Gold" (Mitchell, Moe Berg) – 5:13
  3. "Big Smoke" (Mitchell, Andy Curran) – 6:08
  4. "America" – 4:27
  5. "Some Folks" – 4:40
  6. "Find the Will" – 4:53
  7. "There's a Story" – 4:37
  8. "Dreamer" – 4:11
  9. "Dog and a Bone" (Mitchell, Curran) – 4:44
  10. "Flames" – 5:13
  11. "Hullabaloo" – 4:06
  12. "Honey Forget Those Blues" (Mitchell) – 2:28

Personnel

Musicians
Production

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References

  1. "Alert readies release of new Kim Mitchell album". RPM Weekly . March 14, 1992. Volume 55, No. 12. p. 2.
  2. Parisien, Roch. Aural Fixations at AllMusic
  3. Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 283. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.