Wild Horses (Wild Horses album)

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Wild Horses
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Studio album by Wild Horses
Released 14 April 1980
Recorded Konk Studios, Hornsey, London, December 1979 to January 1980
Genre Hard Rock
Length 36:43
Label EMI
Producer Trevor Rabin, Wild Horses
Wild Horses chronology
Wild Horses
(1980)		 Stand Your Ground
(1981)Stand Your Ground1981
Singles from Wild Horses
  1. "Face Down / Dealer"
    Released: 1980
  2. "Flyaway / Blackmail"
    Released: 1980
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2/5 stars [1]

Wild Horses is the debut 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.[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

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

  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
  6. "Street Girl" - 3:28
  7. "No Strings Attached" - 3:56
  8. "Criminal Tendencies" - 3:46
  9. "Nights on the Town" - 3:21
  10. "Woman" - 4:01

Zoom Club re-issue bonus tracks

  1. "Rocky Mountain Way" (live)
  2. "Saturday Night" (live)

Krescendo re-issue bonus tracks

  1. "The Axe" (live)
  2. "In the City" (live)
  3. "New York City" (live)

Rock Candy re-issue bonus tracks

  1. "The Rapist" (B-side of "Criminal Tendencies" single)
  2. "Reservation" (demo)
  3. "Blackmail" (demo)
  4. "Flyaway" (demo) with Phil Lynott
  5. "Dealer" (demo)
  6. "The Rapist" (demo)
  7. "Retribution" (demo)
  8. "Breathe on Me" (demo)

Release history

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

Musicians

References

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