Hard Volume

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Hard Volume
Rollins Band Hard Volume.jpg
Studio album by
Rollins Band
Released1989
RecordedJuly–December 1988
Genre Post-hardcore [1]
Length71:03
Label Texas Hotel
Producer Theo Van Rock
Rollins Band chronology
Life Time
(1987)		Hard Volume
(1989)		 Turned On
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg p.97-8, 4/00
The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Punknews.orgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 5/10 [7]
Sputnikmusic 5/5 [8]

Hard Volume is the second studio album by American rock band Rollins Band, released in 1989. [9] [10] [11] It was reissued with previously unreleased tracks in 1999 through Buddah Records. [12]

Contents

The original CD release contained a 32-minute jam on the Velvet Underground outtake "Move Right In," titled "Joy Riding with Frank." The track was recorded live in Linz, Austria, during the band's 1988 tour. The 1999 remastered edition replaced this track with six studio tracks: three from the album session at Echo Sound in Los Angeles in December 1988, and three from a demo session recorded in July 1988 at Graphic Studios in New Jersey.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that Rollins "sinks into an existential funk on the seven-song Hard Volume ... Oddly, the rest of the band seems unaffected by his moods, and the music — a well-organized rock juggernaut — thunders along happily." [13] Dave Thompson, in Alternative Rock, called the album "a funked-up swagger that is moody and electrically eclectic." [14]

Track listing

All tracks composed by the Rollins Band, except where indicated.

Original release

  1. "Hard" – 4:06
  2. "What Have I Got" – 4:58
  3. "I Feel Like This" – 4:26
  4. "Planet Joe" – 4:18
  5. "Love Song" – 6:22
  6. "Turned Inside Out" – 6:24
  7. "Down and Away" – 8:20
  8. "Joy Riding with Frank" - 32:04

Remastered version (1999)

  1. "Hard" – 4:06
  2. "What Have I Got" – 4:58
  3. "I Feel Like This" – 4:26
  4. "Planet Joe" – 4:18
  5. "Love Song" – 6:22
  6. "Turned Inside Out" – 6:24
  7. "Down and Away" – 8:20

Session outtakes

  1. "Tearing" – 4:58*
  2. "You Didn't Need" – 5:11*
  3. "Ghost Rider" (Martin Rev, Alan Vega) – 7:23*

Demo: July 1988

  1. "What Have I Got" – 4:33*
  2. "Thin Air" – 8:21*
  3. "Down and Away" – 7:14*

Personnel

Rollins Band

Production

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  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 122.
  5. ↑ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 953.
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  8. ↑ "Review: Rollins Band - Hard Volume | Sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com.
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