Up to No Good

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Up to No Good
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Studio album by
Peter Wolf
Released1990
Studio16th Avenue Sound and Emerald Studios (Nashville, TN); The Bennett House and The Castle (Franklin, TN).
Genre Rock, hard rock
Length43:23
Label MCA
Producer Peter Wolf, Robert White Johnson, Taylor Rhodes
Peter Wolf chronology
Come As You Are
(1987)		Up to No Good
(1990)		 Long Line
(1996)

Up to No Good is the third solo album by the American musician Peter Wolf, released in 1990 on MCA Records. [1] [2]

Contents

Production

The album was produced by Wolf, Robert White Johnson, and Taylor Rhodes. [3] "Never Let It Go" is about the car crash that killed Wolf's high school girlfriend. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Calgary Herald C− [5]
Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau-dud.svg [6]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Ottawa Citizen Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]

The Calgary Herald missed "the juvenile appeal that Wolf lucked into just before he and his J. Geils Band buddies went their separate ways." [5] The Toronto Star wrote that "it's a charming record, a lively and knowledgeable tome that finds its ground somewhere between the Detroit and Philadelphia schools of soul, while standing firm on a harder rock footing." [9]

The Ottawa Citizen labeled some of the songs "classic primal funk with a conscience." [7] The Globe and Mail dismissed the album as "just one more attempt to capitalize on the appealing, but somewhat limited, rockaboogie sound Geils and company milked throughout the seventies." [10]

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Wolf, Taylor Rhodes and Robert White Johnson, unless noted otherwise.

  1. "99 Worlds" – 3:35
  2. "Go Wild" – 3:43
  3. "When Women Are Lonely" – 3:45
  4. "Drive All Night" (Wolf, Desmond Child) – 3:42
  5. "Up to No Good" – 4:33
  6. "Lost in Babylon" – 3:57
  7. "Arrows and Chains" – 3:25
  8. "Daydream Getaway" (Janna Allen, Wolf) – 3:44
  9. "Shades of Red – Shades of Blue" – 4:07
  10. "River Runs Dry" – 5:01
  11. "Never Let It Go" (Wolf, Will Jennings) – 3:57

Personnel

Technical personnel

Charts

Up to No Good chart performance
YearChartPosition
1990The Billboard 200 [11] 111

References

  1. ↑ Morse, Steve (February 25, 1990). "Lone Wolf". The Boston Globe. p. B27.
  2. 1 2 Hunt, Dennis (April 29, 1990). "In Brief". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 83.
  3. ↑ Milward, John (April 19, 1990). "What Is Peter Wolf Up to These Days?". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. E1.
  4. ↑ Heim, Chris (March 9, 1990). "Peter Wolf and Nick Lowe resurface on new labels". Friday. Chicago Tribune. p. Q.
  5. 1 2 Obee, Dave (March 22, 1990). "Recent Releases". Calgary Herald. p. F4.
  6. ↑ "Peter Wolf". Robert Christgau. Retrieved March 9, 2023.
  7. 1 2 Erskine, Evelyn (March 30, 1990). "Peter Wolf Up to No Good". Ottawa Citizen. p. D6.
  8. ↑ (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 885.
  9. ↑ Potter, Mitch (March 23, 1990). "Peter Wolf Up to No Good". Toronto Star. p. D18.
  10. ↑ Niester, Alan (April 23, 1990). "Up to No Good Peter Wolf". The Globe and Mail. p. C7.
  11. ↑ "Peter Wolf". Billboard. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
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