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The album's two main singles were "In Your Eyes" and "People Say". "In Your Eyes", the band's biggest hit, reached the Top 20 on the Canadian charts in the fall of 1992.
Jason Sniderman is a Canadian musician and businessman. He was one of the chief executives of Sam the Record Man, which was established by his father, Sam Sniderman.
Randolph Charles Bachman, is a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s rock bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of Brave Belt, Union and Ironhorse, and has recorded numerous solo albums.
Chris Wardman is a Canadian music producer, musician and songwriter. Wardman was a founding member of Blue Peter, and was their lead guitarist and main contributing songwriter. Wardman was also a member of Breeding Ground in the late 1980s. Wardman has been actively producing albums for many Canadian acts, including Chalk Circle, Leslie Spit Treeo, Randy Bachman and Emm Gryner. Wardman produced two albums for Art Bergmann, including Sexual Roulette in 1990. Meryn Cadell's most recent new release, 1997's 6 Blocks, was produced by Wardman, for which he hired, among others, former bandmate Jason Sniderman, and he performed on the album as well. The Watchmen credit Wardman with discovering them while playing at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, and he produced their debut album, McLaren Furnace Room, which was certified gold in Canada in 1996. In his review of the album on Allmusic, Roch Parisien complimented Wardman's mix of the album for how he balanced lead singer Danny Greaves' vocals with the music production.
Track listing
Angry Lifetime (4:24)
Too Easy Now (2:31)
Happy (3:57)
River Through My Fire (3:35)
In Your Eyes (3:22)
Book of Rejection (5:23)
Be a Clown (4:46)
What If (3:34)
People Say (4:01)
Sometimes I Wish (3:04)
Redirected (4:20)
She's a Slut (3:46)
Little Dog (2:56)
Falling Star (3:16)
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