Big Ones (Loverboy album)

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Big Ones
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedOctober 11, 1989
Genre Rock
Length64:11
Label Columbia
Producer Bruce Fairbairn
Tom Allom
Bob Rock
Loverboy chronology
Wildside
(1987)
Big Ones
(1989)
Loverboy Classics
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Big Ones is a compilation album released in 1989 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. The album was the band's first compilation, including hit tracks such as "Working for the Weekend" and "Lovin' Every Minute of it". The compilation includes 3 new studio tracks: "For You", "Ain't Looking for Love" and "Too Hot". It was also released in the same year that the band decided to break up a second time, and another compilation would not be released until five years later.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Original AlbumLength
1."Working for the Weekend" Get Lucky (1981)3:39
2."For You"
  • Paul Dean
  • Mike Reno
  • Kenny Kaos
New Song5:46
3."The Kid Is Hot Tonight"
Loverboy (1980)4:21
4."Lovin' Every Minute Of It" Robert John Lange Lovin' Every Minute Of It (1985)3:31
5."Lucky Ones"
Get Lucky3:48
6."Hot Girls in Love"
Keep It Up (1983)3:56
7."This Could Be the Night"
Lovin' Every Minute Of It4:55
8."Ain't Looking for Love"
  • Paul Dean
  • Mike Reno
New Song4:34
9."Turn Me Loose"
  • Paul Dean
  • Mike Reno
Loverboy5:35
10."Notorious" Wildside (1987)4:36
11."When It's Over"
  • Paul Dean
  • Mike Reno
Get Lucky5:02
12."Too Hot"
  • Paul Dean
  • Mike Reno
New Song4:19
13."Take Me to the Top"
Get Lucky6:09
14."Heaven in Your Eyes"
Top Gun Soundtrack (1986)4:00
Total length:64:11


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Notes

  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Big Ones - Review". Allmusic .
  2. "Discogs Credits". Discogs. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  3. "AllMusic Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  4. Big Ones (liner notes). Loverboy. Columbia Records. 1989. CK 45411.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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