Welcome to Bop City

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Welcome to Bop City
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Studio album by
Kingpin
Released1988
StudioCMM Studios, KMH Studios
Genre Glam metal, hard rock
Length39:27
Label CMM
Producer Matt J. Olausson

Welcome to Bop City is the first album from Swedish glam metal / hard rock band Kingpin, released in 1988 on the CMM (Club Mariann Music) label in Sweden and in 1989 on the Music For Nations label in the UK. [1] The album was later remixed and released in 1989 under the band's new name Shotgun Messiah on Relativity Records in the US, charting respectably at #99 on Billboard and selling close to half a million copies. [2]

Contents

It is the band's only album with Easy Action / Zan Clan singer Zinny J. Zan on vocals, who joined after hearing the band's early demos. [3]

The album was re-released on CD in 2008 on the Italian label Time Warp Records. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Bop City" - 4:06
  2. "Shout It Out" - 4:16
  3. "I Don't Care 'Bout Nothin'" - 4:29
  4. "Squeezin' Teazin'" - 3:58
  5. "The Explorer" (instrumental) - 4:02
  6. "Nowhere Fast" - 4:29
  7. "I'm Your Love" - 5:00
  8. "Dirt Talk" - 4:36
  9. "Nervous"- 4:27

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Kingpin - Welcome to Bop City - Musikon.se".
  2. ↑ "Home". shotgun-messiah.se.
  3. ↑ "Shotgun Messiah – svensk glamrock i LA | SVT.se". www.svt.se. Archived from the original on 2012-11-07.
  4. ↑ "Welcome to Bop City by Kingpin - RYM/Sonemic".


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