Between a Rock and a Hyde Place: The Best of Payola$

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Between a Rock and a Hyde Place: The Best of Payola$
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Greatest hits album by
Released1987
Length50:31
Label A&M

Between a Rock & a Hyde Place: The Best of Payola$ is a greatest hits album by the Payola$, released in 1987 after A&M had dropped the Payola$ from the label, and after the band had rebranded themselves as Rock and Hyde and released Under the Volcano through Capitol/EMI.

Track listing

All songs by Bob Rock and Paul Hyde except as indicated

Side One

  1. "China Boys" – 3:19
  2. "In a Place Like This" – 3:56 (P.Hyde)
  3. "Soldier" – 4:15
  4. "Romance" – 3:33
  5. "Eyes of a Stranger" – 4:54
  6. "I'll Find Another (Who Can Do it Right)" – 3:37

Side Two

  1. "Where is this Love" – 5:54
  2. "Never Said I Loved You" – 3:18
  3. "Stuck in the Rain" – 3:50
  4. "You're the Only Love" – 4:08 (B.Rock/D.Foster/P.Hyde/M.Nelson)
  5. "It Must Be Love" – 4:38 (B.Rock/P.Hyde/M.Nelson)
  6. "Here's the World" – 4:27 (B.Rock/D.Foster/P.Hyde/M.Nelson)


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