High Stakes & Dangerous Men

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High Stakes & Dangerous Men
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Studio album by
UFO
ReleasedFebruary 1992
RecordedAugust–December 1991
StudioLivehouse Studios, Cornwall
Studio 125, Burgess Hill
Black Barn Studios, Woking
Wessex Studios and Ezzee Studios, London
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length52:51
Label Razor/Castle (Europe)
Victor (Japan)
Producer Kit Woolven
UFO chronology
Ain't Misbehavin'
(1988)
High Stakes & Dangerous Men
(1992)
Walk on Water
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 4/10 [2]

High Stakes & Dangerous Men is the thirteenth album by British hard rock band UFO, released in February 1992. [3] It is the only UFO studio album to feature guitarist Laurence Archer and drummer Clive Edwards, both former members of Wild Horses.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Phil Mogg, Pete Way, and Laurence Archer, except where indicated.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Borderline" 5:17
2."Primed for Time" 3:22
3."She's the One" 3:44
4."Ain't Life Sweet"Mogg, Way, Archer, Edwards3:42
5."Don't Want to Lose You" 5:37
6."Burnin' Fire" 4:02
7."Running Up the Highway" 4:39
8."Back Door Man" 5:06
9."One of Those Nights" 4:11
10."Revolution" 4:06
11."Love Deadly Love" 4:53
12."Let the Good Times Roll" 4:12
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Long Gone" Paul Chapman, Mogg4:59

Personnel

UFO
Additional musicians
Production

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References

  1. "UFO High Stakes & Dangerous Men review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  2. Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 465–466. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. Strong, Martin C., "The Great Rock Discography," Random House Inc., New York NY, 1998, p. 869