Backlash
Studio album by
Bad English
ReleasedAugust 27, 1991
Recorded1991
StudioConway Studios and Secret Sound L.A. (Hollywood, California); Can-Am Recorders (Tarzana, California); Zoo Studios (Encino, California).
Genre
Length48:22
LabelEpic[2]
ProducerRon Nevison[3]
Bad English chronology
Bad English
(1989)		 Backlash
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB[5]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]

Backlash is the second and final studio album by British/American rock band Bad English, released in 1991.[1]

The album peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard 200.[8]

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "taken together, the album — with its unceasing references to rain and rivers — inevitably bogs down, but heard one at a time over the FM in the Ford, even its platitudes, given [John] Waite’s delivery, add up to a hack-rock miracle or two."[5] The Rolling Stone Album Guide deemed Backlash "more spirited" than the debut.[7]

Track listing

  1. "So This Is Eden" (John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Russ Ballard) - 5:09
  2. "Straight to Your Heart" (Waite, Neal Schon, Cain, Mark Spiro) - 4:09
  3. "Time Stood Still" (Waite, Ricky Phillips, Jesse Harms) - 5:23
  4. "The Time Alone with You" (Waite, Diane Warren, Cain) - 4:41
  5. "Dancing Off the Edge of the World" (Waite, Cain, Schon) - 4:54
  6. "Rebel Say a Prayer" (Waite, Cain, Ballard) - 4:23
  7. "Savage Blue" (Waite, Cain, Schon) - 4:33
  8. "Pray for Rain" (Waite, Spiro, Cain) - 5:03
  9. "Make Love Last" (Waite, Cain) - 5:19
  10. "Life at the Top" (Waite, Cain, Spiro, Tim Pierce) - 4:51

Singles

The following singles were released from the album, with the highest charting positions listed.

#TitleRelease Date Hot 100 CAN
1."Straight to Your Heart"1991 42[9]

Personnel

Bad English

Additional musicians

  • Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals
  • Mark Spiro – backing vocals

Production

  • Ron Nevison – producer, engineer
  • Tony Phillips – vocal producer, vocal engineer
  • Gil Morales – assistant engineer
  • Jeff Poe – assistant engineer
  • Dave Lopez – assistant vocal engineer
  • Rand & Rose – mixing
  • Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York City, New York)
  • Deandra Miller – production assistant
  • Hugh Syme – art direction, design
  • Brian Aris – photography
  • HK Management and Trudy Green – management
  • Lynda Lou Beach – management assistant
  • Ged Malone – management assistant

References

  1. 1 2 "Bad English | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  2. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 354.
  3. ↑ "Waite's Songwriting Shines On Latest Bad English Set". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 12 October 1991 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Backlash at AllMusic
  5. 1 2 "Backlash". EW.com.
  6. ↑ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1204.
  7. 1 2 The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 30.
  8. ↑ "Bad English". Billboard.
  9. ↑ "Bad English". Billboard.
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