Excess All Areas (Shy album)

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Excess All Areas
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Studio album by
Shy
Released1 January 1987 (1987-01-01)
StudioSoundpush Studios, Blaricum, Netherlands,
Red Bus Studios, London, UK
Genre Glam metal, hard rock
Length41:16
Label RCA/BMG
Producer Neil Kernon
Shy chronology
Brave the Storm
(1985)		Excess All Areas
(1987)		 Misspent Youth
(1990)
Singles from Excess All Areas
  1. "Break Down the Walls"
    Released: 1987
  2. "Young Heart"
    Released: 1987
  3. "Just Love Me"
    Released: 1988
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 4/10 [1]

Excess All Areas is the third album by the Birmingham, England band Shy. [2] Recorded in the Netherlands with producer Neil Kernon, the album was published in 1987 on RCA/BMG. [3] The album featured Shy's biggest hit, "Break Down The Walls", co-written with Don Dokken and reached Britain's top 75, with Metal Hammer magazine being appreciative.

Contents

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Emergency" (Michael Bolton, Duane Hitchings) - 3:35 [4]
  2. "Can't Fight the Nights" (Michael Jay, Steve Harris, Tony Mills) - 3:59
  3. "Young Heart" (Harris, Hitchings, Mills) - 3:55
  4. "Just Love Me" (John Parker, Mills) - 3:58
  5. "Break Down the Walls" (Don Dokken, Alan Kelly, Neil Kernon, Shy) - 5:04 [5]
Side two
  2. "Under Fire" (Harris, Mills, Kelly) - 4:14
  3. "Devil Woman" (Terry Britten, Christine Holmes) - 3:32 (Cliff Richard cover)
  4. "Talk to Me" (Harris, Kelly, Paddy McKenna) - 3:51
  5. "When the Love Is Over" (Jay, Harris, Mills) - 4:22
  6. "Telephone" (Harris, Kelly) - 4:14

Personnel

Shy
Production

References

  1. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 323. ISBN   978-1894959315.
  2. ↑ Colin Larkin (2006), The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, vol. 7 (4 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 439, ISBN   0195313739
  3. ↑ Joel Whitburn, ed. (2007), The Billboard Albums: Includes Every Album That Made the Billboard 200 Chart (6 ed.), Record Research Incorporated, p. 947, ISBN   978-0898201666
  4. ↑ Urban "Wally" Wallstrom (23 March 2007), "Duane Hitchings, The Man Behind the Hits", RockUnited.com, retrieved 18 January 2013
  5. ↑ Schwann Compact Disc Catalog, vol. 2, Schwann Publications, 1987, p. 28, retrieved 27 January 2013
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