Excess All Areas (Shy album)
Appearance
Excess All Areas | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1 January 1987 | |||
Studio | Soundpush Studios, Blaricum, Netherlands, Red Bus Studios, London, UK | |||
Genre | Glam metal, hard rock | |||
Length | 41:16 | |||
Label | RCA/BMG | |||
Producer | Neil Kernon | |||
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Singles from Excess All Areas | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 4/10[1] |
Excess All Areas is the third album by the Birmingham, England band Shy.[2] Recorded in the Netherlands with producer Neil Kernon, the album was published in 1987 on RCA/BMG.[3] The album featured Shy's biggest hit, "Break Down The Walls", co-written with Don Dokken and reached Britain's top 75, with Metal Hammer magazine being appreciative.
Track listing
[edit]- Side one
- "Emergency" (Michael Bolton, Duane Hitchings) - 3:35[4]
- "Can't Fight the Nights" (Michael Jay, Steve Harris, Tony Mills) - 3:59
- "Young Heart" (Harris, Hitchings, Mills) - 3:55
- "Just Love Me" (John Parker, Mills) - 3:58
- "Break Down the Walls" (Don Dokken, Alan Kelly, Neil Kernon, Shy) - 5:04[5]
- Side two
- "Under Fire" (Harris, Mills, Kelly) - 4:14
- "Devil Woman" (Terry Britten, Christine Holmes) - 3:32 (Cliff Richard cover)
- "Talk to Me" (Harris, Kelly, Paddy McKenna) - 3:51
- "When the Love Is Over" (Jay, Harris, Mills) - 4:22
- "Telephone" (Harris, Kelly) - 4:14
Personnel
[edit]- Shy
- Tony Mills – vocals
- Steve Harris – guitar
- Roy Stephen Davis – bass
- Alan Kelly – drums
- Paddy McKenna – keyboards
- Production
- Neil Kernon - producer, engineer, mixing
- Frank Koppelman, John Smit, Matt Budd - engineers
- John Parker - associate producer on track 4
References
[edit]- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 323. ISBN 978-1894959315.
- ^ Colin Larkin (2006), The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, vol. 7 (4 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 439, ISBN 0195313739
- ^ Joel Whitburn, ed. (2007), The Billboard Albums: Includes Every Album That Made the Billboard 200 Chart (6 ed.), Record Research Incorporated, p. 947, ISBN 978-0898201666
- ^ Urban "Wally" Wallstrom (23 March 2007), "Duane Hitchings, The Man Behind the Hits", RockUnited.com, retrieved 18 January 2013
- ^ Schwann Compact Disc Catalog, vol. 2, Schwann Publications, 1987, p. 28, retrieved 27 January 2013