The Wildhearts (album)

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The Wildhearts
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Studio album by
Released23 April 2007
Genre Hard rock, punk rock, heavy metal
Length55:35
Label Round Records
Producer Jase Edwards
The Wildhearts chronology
Geordie in Wonderland
(2006)
The Wildhearts
(2007)
The Works
(2008)

The Wildhearts is the sixth album by the eponymous band. The first (download only) single was "The Sweetest Song" released two weeks before the album. The next single was "The New Flesh", the first on the album to be accompanied with a video.

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Reception

The album reached number 55 in the UK album charts the week after its release.

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Track listing

  1. "Rooting for the Bad Guy"
  2. "The Sweetest Song"
  3. "The Revolution will Be Televised"
  4. "The New Flesh"
  5. "Slaughtered Authors"
  6. "The Hard Way"
  7. "Inner City Overture"
  8. "Bi-Polar Baby"
  9. "She's All That"
  10. "Destroy All Monsters"
  11. Borderline
  12. Zeen Requiem
  13. So The Spencers Can Poke Out
  14. Oh Bonita
  15. Unbroken
  16. The New Flesh (Single Version)
  17. Inner City Overture (Single Version)

This is the Round Records version known as “The White Album.” Original version ended with "Destroy All Monsters." Remastered by Dave Draper (The Wildhearts, Ginger, Terrorvision, Ryan Hamilton) – this deluxe edition comes with 7 bonus rare, hard-to-find and unheard tracks, previously only available on long out-of-print singles or the Japanese version of the original release. The track “Zeen Requiem” is previously unreleased and different to the version which was later released on “Chutzpah!”.

Source: Round Records. Available here: https://round-records.com/product/the-wildhearts-remastered-digital-download/

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