Casual Gods

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Casual Gods
Casualgodsalbumcover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 12, 1988 (1988-01-12) [1]
Studio
Genre Rock
Length55:54
Label
Producer Jerry Harrison
Jerry Harrison chronology
The Red and the Black
(1981)
Casual Gods
(1988)
Walk on Water
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Casual Gods is the second album by American musician Jerry Harrison, released in January 1988 by Sire Records in the U.S. and Fontana Records in the UK and Europe. His third album, Walk on Water , would also bear the Casual Gods name as a proxy for the band.

Contents

The track "Man with a Gun" was featured in the 1988 film Two Moon Junction , and the instrumental version of the same song was used in the 1986 Jonathan Demme film Something Wild . The track "Cherokee Chief" first appeared on the 1987 Sire Records promotional sampler Just Say Yes . The single "Rev It Up" peaked at No. 7 on the U.S. Album Rock Tracks chart. The album cover features a photograph of the Serra Pelada gold mine by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.

Track listing

All tracks were written by Jerry Harrison, except where indicated.

  1. "Rev It Up" (Jerry Harrison, John Sieger, Ernie Brooks) – 4:17
  2. "Song of Angels" – 3:35
  3. "Man with a Gun" – 4:35
  4. "Let It Come Down" – 4:52
  5. "Cherokee Chief" (Harrison, Brooks) – 4:30
  6. "A Perfect Lie" (Harrison, Arthur Russell, Brooks) – 4:25
  7. "Are You Running?" (Harrison, Brooks, Monique Dayan) – 4:20
  8. "Breakdown in the Passing Lane" – 4:37
  9. "A.K.A. Love" (Harrison, Brooks) – 4:10
  10. "We're Always Talking" (Harrison, Brooks) – 4:40
  11. "Bobby" (Harrison, Brooks) – 4:03
  12. "Bobby" (Extended Mix) (Harrison, Brooks) – 6:58

Personnel

Additional musicians

Technical

Charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 18

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References

  1. "January Hot Album Releases". Billboard . Vol. 100, no. 2. January 9, 1988. p. 84.
  2. Demalon, Tom. "Casual Gods". AllMusic.
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 134. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.