Nuthouse (album)

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Nuthouse
Haywirenuthouse.jpg
Studio album by
Released1990
StudioNidaros Studios, Trondheim, Norway
Genre Hard rock
Label Attic [1]
Producer Bjorn Nessjo, Haywire
Haywire chronology
Don't Just Stand There
(1987)
Nuthouse
(1990)
Get Off
(1992)

Nuthouse is the third album by the Canadian band Haywire, released in 1990. [2] It went gold in Canada. [3] The album was recorded in Norway with Bjorn Nessjo. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

The Toronto Star wrote that "the band carries it off with enough energy to make the borrowings seem their own and with enough enthusiasm to overshadow the occasional lyrical lapses, the guitar hero moves and all the other hackneyed hard-rock trappings that the band has adopted." [5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Birt, Rashed and MacAusland, except where listed.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Operator Central" 4:14
2."Short End of a Wishbone" 3:49
3."Livin' It Up" 4:28
4."Gettin' the Groove" 4:44
5."Wild Wild" 3:24
6."Strange One" 3:57
7."She Drives" 4:42
8."Well Oiled Machine" 4:14
9."Tremble in Line" 3:32
10."Push 'n Shove (That's the Way)" 4:10
11."Taken the Pain"Birt, Rashed, Kilbride, MacAusland5:08

Personnel

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References

  1. "Nuthouse Haywire". Waterloo Region Record. December 20, 1990. p. C10.
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  3. Barr, Greg (6 Jan 1991). "Myles ahead as disc passes million mark". Ottawa Citizen. p. E7.
  4. Harrison, Tom (28 Mar 1991). "Budding spuds from P.E.I.". The Province. p. P32.
  5. Dafoe, Chris (September 22, 1990). "Haywire, Nuthouse". Toronto Star. p. F10.