Label: EMI Records (Europe), 0946 381958 2 5
Style: Hard Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 75:30
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 443 Mb
Charts: UK #2, FIN #3, GER #20, NOR #26, SWE #24, US #151, JP 41#. Japan & United Kingdom: Gold.
Come
an' Get It is the fourth studio album by English hard rock band
Whitesnake, released in 1981. It was, at the time, Whitesnake's
highest-charting release in the UK, hitting No. 2 and being kept off the
top spot by Adam and the Ants' Kings of the Wild Frontier. "Don't Break
My Heart Again" and "Would I Lie to You" were released as singles, the
former making the UK Top 20.
Come an' Get It's cover art was designed
and created by British artist Malcolm Horton. Horton had been contacted
by an old friend John Ward who was at the time road manager for
Whitesnake. He explained that the band didn’t like any of the ideas for
the album cover that EMI, their record label, had come up with and so he
suggested getting Malcolm involved. The band agreed and so he was asked
to go and meet them and come up with some ideas. The final artwork sees
the white snake trapped inside a glass apple on the front cover and on
the reverse the glass apple is shattered and the snake set free as it
resembles as "the power of seduction/temptation clearly too strong." The
snake’s mouth actually depicted a vagina. However, it did not stir as
much controversy as the infamous cover of the band’s second album,
Lovehunter (1979). Horton addressed the album's "explicit" cover behind
it saying:
One thing I always get asked about is the snake's mouth.
At the time it just felt right to give it, how should I say, “a sexual
element”. I felt some apprehension at first to how it would be received
and if it would be acceptable. I felt that in the context of all the
elements “Come An' Get It," apple, temptation, seduction it all seemed
to work. Thankfully it worked and gave the piece an edge. The American
market though thought differently and apparently, the mouth was
airbrushed out!!
The 2007 EMI reissue redesigned the mouth to more closely resemble a regular snake's tongue.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_an%27_Get_It)
01. Come An' Get It (03:59)
02. Hot Stuff (03:22)
03. Don't Break My Heart Again (04:03)
04. Lonely Days, Lonely Nights (04:16)
05. Wine Women And Song (03:45)
06. Child Of Babylon (04:48)
07. Would I Lie To You (04:29)
08. Girl (03:55)
09. Hit An' Run (03:23)
10. Till The Day I Die (04:33)
11. Child Of Babylon (Alternate Rough Mix) (04:28)
12. Girl (Alternate Version / Rough Mix) (04:07)
13. Come An' Get It (Rough Mix) (03:59)
14. Lonely Days, Lonely Nights (Alternate Version / Rough Mix) (04:13)
15. Till The Day I Die (Rough Mix) (04:44)
16. Hit An' Run (Backing Track) (03:18)
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