Wild Wild West (album)

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Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West Escape Club.jpg
Studio album by
The Escape Club
ReleasedJuly 11, 1988 [1]
Recorded1987
StudioMaison Rouge, Air London, Westside
Genre
Length39:10
Label Atlantic [3]
Producer Chris Kimsey
The Escape Club chronology
White Fields
(1986)		Wild Wild West
(1988)		 Dollars and Sex
(1991)
Singles from Wild Wild West
  1. "Wild Wild West"
    Released: July 25, 1988
  2. "Shake for the Sheik"
    Released: November 9, 1988

Wild Wild West is the second album by rock band The Escape Club, released in 1988. [4] It includes their most well-known song, "Wild, Wild West". [5] The album also included the singles "Shake for the Sheik" and "Walking Through Walls".

Contents

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Wild, Wild West"5:44
2."Jealousy"3:07
3."Shake for the Sheik"4:02
4."Walking Through Walls"3:20
5."The Longest Day"4:36
6."Who Do You Love?"3:17
7."Staring at the Sun"4:47
8."Only the Rain"3:06
9."Goodbye Joey Rae"4:28
10."Working for the Fatman"2:57

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Wild Wild West
Chart (1988)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 42
US Billboard 200 [8] 27

Year-end charts

1989 year-end chart performance for Wild Wild West
Chart (1989)Position
US Billboard 200 [9] 97

Personnel

The Escape Club

Additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ "RIAA - Gold & Platinum - October 16, 2010: Escape Club certified albums". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  2. 1 2 Breihan, Tom (7 June 2021). "The Number Ones: The Escape Club's "Wild, Wild West". Stereogum . Retrieved 12 November 2023. With Kimsey, the Escape Club recorded their Wild, Wild West album, a clear attempt to run grandly pouty T. Rex-style '70s glam rock through an '80s dance-beat filter.
  3. ↑ Writer, DEBORAH WILKER, Music. "ESCAPE CLUB HAS A WILD BEGINNING". Sun-Sentinel.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "Escape Club - Wild, Wild West". www.pastemagazine.com. 14 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "'Tween the Rock and Pop Place". Los Angeles Times. 27 November 1988.
  6. ↑ "Wild Wild West - The Escape Club | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  7. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  8. ↑ "The Escape Club Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  9. ↑ "Billboard.BIZ: Top Pop Albums of 1989". Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2022.


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