Wikipedia

Wild Horses (Wild Horses album)

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]

Wild Horses
Studio album by
Wild Horses
Released14 April 1980
RecordedDecember 1979 – January 1980
StudioKonk Studios, Hornsey, London
GenreHard rock
Length36:43
LabelEMI
ProducerTrevor 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
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[2]

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

edit

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

edit
  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

edit
  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

edit
  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

edit
Wild Horses
Production

Release history

edit
Date Region Label Catalogue Format Notes
14 April 1980 Worldwide EMI Records EMC3326 vinyl
1980 Japan Toshiba-EMI EMS-81315 vinyl
1993 Japan Toshiba-EMI/Insideout TOCP-7975 CD
1999 UK Zoom Club ZCRCD22 CD with the title The First Album
2009 UK Krescendo KRECD32 CD with the title The First Album
2013 UK Rock Candy CANDY168 CD

References

edit
  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.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wild_Horses_(Wild_Horses_album)&oldid=1228948470"