Games People Play (album)

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Games People Play
Pink cream 69 games people.jpg
Studio album by
Released3 May 1993
Genre Hard rock, glam metal
Length51:57 (56:39)
Label Epic
Producer Dirk Steffens & Pink Cream 69
Pink Cream 69 chronology
One Size Fits All
(1991)
Games People Play
(1993)
Change
(1995)

Games People Play is the third studio album by Pink Cream 69. It was the final album with Andi Deris on vocals.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pink Cream 69

No.TitleLength
1."Face in the Mirror"4:47
2."Way Down"5:11
3."Keep Your Eye on the Twisted"3:29
4."Somedays I Sail"4:57
5."Shattered"3:58
6."Monday Again"3:11
7."Dyin' Century"4:37
8."Till You're Mine"3:42
9."Still Alive"4:55
10."Down on Your Luck"4:11
11."Backflash" (Instrumental)0:59
12."Condemnation"4:28
13."Don't Let It All Come Down"3:32
Asian release bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
14."A Good Waste of Time"4:42

Personnel

Production

Artwork

The artwork by W. A. Motzek is based on the painting Etude de 35 têtes d'expression by French artist Louis-Leopold Boilly.

Critical reception

In a contemporary review for the german edition of Metal Hammer, Jörg Staude stated the album would be "interesting, rich in variety and very sophisticated" evaluating it as their best album by then, grading it with six of seven possiple points. [1]

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