City Nights

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City Nights
City Nights cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1978
StudioLarrabee Sound Studios, Los Angeles; MCA Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale, California
Genre Pop rock
Label Chrysalis
Producer Mike Chapman, Peter Coleman
Nick Gilder chronology
You Know Who You Are
(1977)
City Nights
(1978)
Frequency
(1979)

City Nights is an album by Nick Gilder, released in 1978 on Chrysalis Records.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Globe and Mail wrote that Gilder's "hit single, 'Hot Child in the City', which appears on this album, sums up most of what he has to offer—titillating lyrics, simple, formula melodies, derivative zooming guitars and percussive rhythms so basic they verge on the moronic." [2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Nick Gilder and James McCulloch

  1. "Got to Get Out"
  2. "We'll Work It Out"
  3. "(She's) One of the Boys"
  4. "All Because of Love"
  5. "Hot Child in the City"
  6. "Frustration"
  7. "Here Comes the Night"
  8. "21st Century"
  9. "Fly High"
  10. "Rockaway"

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1978)Peak
position
Canadian Albums ( RPM ) [3] 13
US Billboard 200 [4] 33

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References

  1. Stone, Doug. "Nick Gilder – City Nights". AllMusic.
  2. Gilday, Katherine (8 Oct 1978). "Nick Gilder". The Globe and Mail. p. F12.
  3. "RPM 100 Albums". RPM . Vol. 30, no. 13. December 23, 1978. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  4. "Nick Gilder Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.