Wild Horses (Wild Horses album)

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Wild Horses
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Studio album by
Wild Horses
Released14 April 1980
RecordedDecember 1979 – January 1980
Studio Konk Studios, Hornsey, London
Genre Hard rock
Length36:43
Label EMI
Producer Trevor Rabin, Wild Horses
Wild Horses chronology
Wild Horses
(1980)		 Stand Your Ground
(1981)
Singles from Wild Horses
  1. "Criminal Tendencies" / "The Rapist"
    Released: 1979
  2. "Face Down" / "Dealer"
    Released: 1980
  3. "Flyaway" / "Blackmail"
    Released: 1980
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 6/10 [2]

Wild Horses is the debut studio album by the British rock band, Wild Horses, co-produced with Trevor Rabin at Konk Studios in London, and released on 14 April 1980 on EMI Records. It peaked at No. 38, and spent four weeks in the UK Albums Chart. [3]

Contents

It was subsequently issued on CD in Japan in 1993 on Toshiba-EMI, and by the now defunct UK labels Zoom Club in 1999 and Krescendo Records in 2009, respectively, both with the title The First Album. The most recent re-issue came in February 2013, courtesy of UK-based Rock Candy Records, and includes a host of unreleased studios demos as bonus tracks not found on previous re-issues.

Track listing

All songs by Jimmy Bain and Brian Robertson, except where noted

Side one
  1. "Reservation" - 3:47
  2. "Face Down" - 3:30
  3. "Blackmail" - 2:25
  4. "Flyaway" (Bain, Phil Lynott) - 3:33
  5. "Dealer" (Bain, Robertson, Scott Gorham) - 4:56
Side two
  2. "Street Girl" - 3:28
  3. "No Strings Attached" - 3:56
  4. "Criminal Tendencies" - 3:46
  5. "Nights on the Town" - 3:21
  6. "Woman" - 4:01

Zoom Club re-issue bonus tracks

  2. "Rocky Mountain Way" (Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli) - 4:33 (live in Osaka, Japan)
  3. "Saturday Night" (Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper) - 7:20 (live in Osaka, Japan)

Krescendo re-issue bonus tracks

  2. "The Axe" (live from BBC 'In Concert', 1981)
  3. "In the City" (live from BBC 'In Concert', 1981)
  4. "New York City" (live from BBC 'In Concert', 1981)

Rock Candy re-issue bonus tracks

  2. "The Rapist" - 3:37 (B-side of "Criminal Tendencies" single)
  3. "Reservation" (demo) - 4:22
  4. "Blackmail" (demo) - 2:41
  5. "Flyaway" (demo) - 3:12 (featuring Phil Lynott)
  6. "Dealer" (demo) - 4:49
  7. "The Rapist" (demo) - 3:38
  8. "Retribution" (demo) - 5:22
  9. "Breathe on Me" (demo) - 5:51

Personnel

Wild Horses
Production

Release history

DateRegionLabelCatalogueFormatNotes
14 April 1980Worldwide EMI Records EMC3326vinyl
1980Japan Toshiba-EMI EMS-81315vinyl
1993JapanToshiba-EMI/InsideoutTOCP-7975CD
1999UKZoom ClubZCRCD22CDwith the title The First Album
2009UKKrescendoKRECD32CDwith the title The First Album
2013UKRock CandyCANDY168CD

References

  1. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Wild Horses The First Album review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 2011-08-26.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 414–415. ISBN   978-1894959315.
  3. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 602. ISBN   1-904994-10-5.
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