Bryan Adams – Waking Up The Neighbours (2LP)
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Bryan Adams – vocals, rhythm guitars
Robbie King – Hammond organ
Tommy Mandel – organ
Phil Nicholas – keyboards, programming
Bill Payne – acoustic piano, Hammond organ
Ed Shearmur – keyboards
Keith Scott – lead guitars
Larry Klein – bass
Dave Taylor – bass
Mickey Curry – drums
The Tuck Back Twins (Bryan Adams and Mutt Lange) – backing vocals
1 LP, standard sleeve
20th Anniversary limited numbered edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g Virgin Vinyl
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : unspecified
Label : Audio Fidelity
Original Label : A&M
Recorded March 1990 – June 1991 at Battery Studios, England and the Warehouse Studios, Canada
Recorded by Nigel Green
Engineered by Ron Obvious (technical engineer)
Mixed by Bob Clearmountain
Produced by Brian Adams and Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Remastered by Kevin Gray
Originally released in September 1991
Reissued in January 2012
Tracks:
Side A:
- Is Your Mama Gonna Miss Ya?
- Hey Honey - I'm Packin' You In!
- Can't Stop This Thing We Started
- Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven
Side B:
- Not Guilty
- Vanishing
- House Arrest
- Do I Have To Say The Words?
Side C:
- There Will Never Be Another Tonight
- All I Want Is You
- Depend On Me
- (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Side D:
- If You Wanna Leave Me (Can I Come Too)
- Touch The Hand
- Don't Drop That Bomb On Me
Reviews :
“Waking up the Neighbours' will, with no sweat, reestablish Bryan Adams as the radio's hoarse purveyor of energy and fun. A scrupulously careful yet adamantly alive piece of work, this collaboration between the Canadian singer-guitarist and the Midas-touch songwriter-producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange alternates half-tamed sonic raunch like "Is Your Mama Gonna Miss Ya?" and "Hey Honey – I'm Packin' You In!" with eloquent mall ballads such as "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," Adams's current planet-wide phenomenon, and the even moodier "Do I Have to Say the Words?" For further balance there is fairly soulful midtempo rock ("Depend on Me") and an oddly toned state-of-the-world finale called "Don't Drop That Bomb on Me."
Like most capable pop craftsmen hellbent on seizing the airwaves, Adams and Lange walk a fine line between familiarity and derivativeness, between the blazingly immediate and the outright stale. So some tunes on Waking Up the Neighbours have turned out too broad for anyone's taste. "House Arrest" doesn't convey much of the atmosphere of "justa havin' a ball," and the hectoring sing-along "There Will Never Be Another Tonight" collapses into silliness in no time flat. More often, however, all Adams and Lange's high-impact verses and choruses and bridges and subbridges work like charms. The arrangements are only faintly dressed up with well-chosen bits of keyboard and percussion, and Bob Clearmountain's mix emphasizes Adams's vocals and Keith Scott's memorable guitar hooks – not, as per current market fashion, the rhythm section.
Bryan Adams became a superstar on the basis of Reckless, from 1984, an album released just as Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. was beginning to exert its enormous influence over how guitar-defined popsters should think, sound and wear their denim. Three years later, with his dull Into the Fire, Adams let his always believable passion for melody and crunch lead him into attempts at the sort of topical, introspective songwriting that Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp sometimes can pull off. But between 1987 and right now, the Traveling Wilburys restored humor and the Black Crowes embraced vulgarity. However you may feel about this turn of events in the evolution of nonmetal, bestselling guitar pop, one thing seems certain: It's coaxed Bryan Adams back toward his natural calling”. Rolling Stone Magazine
Ratings :
Discogs : 4,5 / 5