I Am a Wild Party (Live)

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I Am a Wild Party (Live)
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Live album by
ReleasedJune 8, 1990 [1]
Venue Oshawa Civic Auditorium, Oshawa, Ontario
The KEE to Bala, Bala, Ontario
StudioWestbury Sound International, Toronto
Genre Rock
Length38:29
Label Alert
Producer Kim Mitchell
Kim Mitchell chronology
Rockland
(1989)
I Am a Wild Party (Live)
(1990)
Aural Fixations
(1992)
Singles from I Am a Wild Party
  1. "I Am a Wild Party"
    Released: 1990
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [3]

I Am a Wild Party (Live) is a live album by Canadian musician Kim Mitchell and his fourth solo release. It contains six live tracks; five of which were performed at The Oshawa Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, Ontario, and "Go For Soda" performed at The KEE to Bala, on Lake Muskoka, in Bala, Ontario. The album also contains two new studio tracks titled "I Am a Wild Party" and "Deep Dive", recorded live at rehearsal.

Contents

Commercial performance

I Am a Wild Party was the tenth-best selling Cancon album in Canada of 1990. [4] The album was certified Platinum in Canada in 1991, and was just the third live album by a Canadian artist to sell more than 100,000 copies. [5]

Track listing

All songs by Kim Mitchell and Pye Dubois

  1. "I Am a Wild Party" – 4:25 (new studio track)
  2. "That's the Hold" – 5:05
  3. "Battle Scar" – 5:54
  4. "Lager & Ale" – 4:11
  5. "Deep Dive" – 4:52 (new studio track)
  6. "All We Are" – 5:41
  7. "Rock n Roll Duty" – 4:17
  8. "Go for Soda" – 3:59

Personnel

Musicians
Production

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References

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  2. Allan, Mark. "Kim MItchell - I Am a Wild Party review". AllMusic . All Media Network . Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  3. Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 283. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
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