I Am a Wild Party (Live) is a live album by Canadian musician Kim Mitchell and his fourth solo release. It contains six live tracks; five of which were performed at The Oshawa Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, Ontario, and "Go For Soda" performed at The KEE to Bala, on Lake Muskoka, in Bala, Ontario. The album also contains two new studio tracks titled "I Am a Wild Party" and "Deep Dive", recorded live at rehearsal.
I Am a Wild Party (Live) | ||||
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Live album by | ||||
Released | June 8, 1990[1] | |||
Venue | Oshawa Civic Auditorium, Oshawa, Ontario The KEE to Bala, Bala, Ontario | |||
Studio | Westbury Sound International, Toronto | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 38:29 | |||
Label | Alert | |||
Producer | Kim Mitchell | |||
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Singles from I Am a Wild Party | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10[3] |
Commercial performance
editI Am a Wild Party was the tenth-best selling Cancon album in Canada of 1990.[4] The album was certified Platinum in Canada in 1991, and was just the third live album by a Canadian artist to sell more than 100,000 copies.[5]
Track listing
editAll songs by Kim Mitchell and Pye Dubois
- "I Am a Wild Party" – 4:25 (new studio track)
- "That's the Hold" – 5:05
- "Battle Scar" – 5:54
- "Lager & Ale" – 4:11
- "Deep Dive" – 4:52 (new studio track)
- "All We Are" – 5:41
- "Rock n Roll Duty" – 4:17
- "Go for Soda" – 3:59
Personnel
edit- Musicians
- Kim Mitchell – guitar, vocals, producer
- Peter Fredette – bass, vocals
- Greg Wells – keyboards
- Greg Critchley – drums (tracks 2–4, 6–7)
- Matt Frenette – drums (tracks 1, 5)
- Lou Molino – drums (track 8)
- Production
- Doug McClement – live recordings engineer
- Bob Shindle – studio recordings engineer
- Mike Fraser – mixing at Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver
References
edit- ^ "Canada Day to rock". Ottawa Citizen. May 19, 1990. G3. "Mitchell's new live album, I Am A Wild Party, will be released June 8."
- ^ Allan, Mark. "Kim MItchell - I Am a Wild Party review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 283. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
- ^ "Top 50 Cancon Albums of 1990". RPM. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
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