Night Attack (album)

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Night Attack
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Studio album by
The Angels
ReleasedNovember 1981
StudioEMI 301 Studio, Sydney, Australia
Genre Hard rock
Length38:23
Label Epic
Producer Ed Thacker, John Brewster, Rick Brewster
The Angels chronology
Dark Room
(1980)		Night Attack
(1981)		 Watch the Red
(1983)
Singles from Night Attack
  1. "Night Attack"
    Released: January 1982
  2. "Living on the Outside"
    Released: 1982

Night Attack is the fifth studio album by Australian band The Angels, it was released in November 1981 through Epic Records. The album peaked at No. 11 on the National albums chart. [1] For the 1982 American release of Night Attack by Epic Records, they used the band name Angel City.

Contents

In June 2002, Shock Records issued The Complete Sessions 1980 - 1983. The 4-CD box set included remasters of Dark Room (9 bonus tracks), Night Attack (9 bonus tracks), Watch The Red (5 bonus tracks) and The Blow (2-CD set). In June 2006, Liberation Music re-issued Night Attack from The Complete Sessions 1980 - 1983. The album peaked at number 13 on the ARIA Charts and it also charted at number 14 on the Recorded Music NZ. [2] [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [4]

Track listings

All tracks written by John Brewster (as John Brewster-Jones), Rick Brewster (as Richard Brewster-Jones), Doc Neeson (as Bernard Neeson) unless otherwise indicated. [5]

Australian 1981 release

Side one
  1. "Long Night" – 4:12
  2. "Runnin' Wild" – 4:19
  3. "Fashion and Fame" – 4:38
  4. "City Out of Control" – 5:55
Side two
  1. "Night Attack" (J. Brewster, R. Brewster, Neeson, Brent Eccles) – 3:31
  2. "Nothin' to Win" – 4:14
  3. "Living on the Outside" – 4:20
  4. "Talk About You" (J. Brewster, R. Brewster, Neeson, Eccles) – 3:29
  5. "Storm the Bastille" (J. Brewster, R. Brewster, Neeson, Chris Bailey) – 3:43
Bonus tracks on 2002 Shock Records release
  2. "Casablanca" – 4:18
  3. "Small Talk" – 3:31
  4. "Back on You" – 3:05
  5. "Chaplin's Drum" – 3:22
  6. "Fashion and Fame" (live) – 4:40
  7. "Talk About You" (live) (J. Brewster, R. Brewster, Neeson, Eccles) – 3:31
  8. "Bad Dream" (live) (J. Brewster, R. Brewster, Neeson, Bailey) – 4:20
  9. "Angel" (live) – 4:46
  10. "Devil's Gate" (live) – 5:51
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [4]

Personnel

The Angels / Angel City members
Production
2006 re-issue

Charts

Chart (1981-82)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [1] 13
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [6] 14
US Billboard 200 [7] 174

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [8] Platinum50,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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References

  1. 1 2 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992 . St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  2. ↑ The Angels - Night Attack at Australian-Charts
  3. ↑ The Angels - Night Attack at Australian Music Database [ permanent dead link ]
  4. 1 2 Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 19. ISBN   978-1894959315.
  5. ↑ "APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association. Archived from the original on 17 May 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2008. Note: requires user to input track title e.g. LONG NIGHT
  6. ↑ "Charts.nz – The Angels – Night Attack". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  7. ↑ "The Angels Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  8. ↑ "Platinum and Gold Albums 1982". Kent Music Report. 28 February 1983. Retrieved 26 December 2022– via Imgur.
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