No Fun Aloud

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No Fun Aloud
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 28, 1982
RecordedEarly Fall, 1981 – Spring, 1982
StudioWilder Bros. Studios and Rudy Records, Los Angeles, Muscle Shoals Sound, Sheffield, Alabama, Bayshore Recording Studio, Miami
Genre
Length39:21
Label Asylum
Producer
Glenn Frey chronology
No Fun Aloud
(1982)
The Allnighter
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

No Fun Aloud is the debut solo studio album by Glenn Frey. [5] It was released in 1982 on Asylum. [6]

Contents

The album reached #32 on the charts and contained two top 40 singles, "The One You Love" and "I Found Somebody". [7] The album was certified Gold by the RIAA, selling over 500,000 (half a million) copies in the United States. [8]

Critical reception

AllMusic critic Mike DeGagne wrote that "it's Frey's perfectly guided vocals and impeccable talent for crafting laid-back love songs that make[s] the album noteworthy ... With Frey's own production assistance, No Fun Aloud stands up as a modest debut album." [1] The Rolling Stone Album Guide called No Fun Aloud "a predictably slick solo debut in [Frey's] old band's party-boy mode." [4] The Globe and Mail called it "remarkably uninspired and joyless," writing that "by and large, the songs are of the John David Souther school of no-melody dirge—the type of thing that gives California music a bad name." [9] The New York Times deemed it "an agreeable, well-crafted little record." [10]

Track listing

All songs by Glenn Frey and Jack Tempchin, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."I Found Somebody"4:05
2."The One You Love"4:34
3."Partytown"2:57
4."I Volunteer" (Jack Tempchin, Bill Bodine)4:06
5."I've Been Born Again" (Don Davis, James Dean)4:36
6."Sea Cruise" (Huey "Piano" Smith, Johnny Vincent)2:36
7."That Girl" (Glenn Frey, Bob Seger)3:41
8."All Those Lies" (Frey)4:43
9."She Can't Let Go"3:11
10."Don't Give Up"4:48
Total length:39:21

Personnel

Production

Charts

AlbumBillboard (United States)

YearChartPosition
1982Pop Albums32

Singles – Billboard (United States)

YearSingleChartPosition
1982"Don't Give Up"Mainstream Rock25
1982"I Found Somebody"Adult Contemporary27
1982"I Found Somebody"Mainstream Rock57
1982"I Found Somebody"Pop Singles31
1982"Partytown"Mainstream Rock5
1982"The One You Love"Adult Contemporary2
1982"The One You Love"Pop Singles15
1983"All Those Lies"Adult Contemporary28
1983"All Those Lies"Pop Singles41

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