Label: Polydor Records (Japan), P33P 50026
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
Time: 40:50
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 262 Mb
Bent
Out of Shape would be Rainbow's final studio album before their 12-year
hiatus from the studio. It also proved to be the band's final studio
album with vocalist Joe Lynn Turner, bassist Roger Glover and
keyboardist David Rosenthal, and their only one to feature drummer Chuck
Burgi, who replaced Bobby Rondinelli just prior to the album's
recording sessions.
The instrumental "Snowman" is based upon "Walking
in the Air," a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film
The Snowman, which was based on Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book of
the same name.
The album's cover was designed by Hipgnosis, and
alongside Led Zeppelin's Coda, the artwork was amongst the last to be
created by the studio before disbanding in 1983.
This album is
generally referred to by critics and fans as a commercial effort, with
the band attempting to repeat the success of the song "Stone Cold" from
the previous album Straight Between the Eyes. As a result, some of the
songs, like the first single released from this album, "Street of
Dreams", are usually considered to be more in the album-oriented rock
style, instead of the hard rock sound of earlier Rainbow albums. The
album was particularly aimed at the US market: the title is an American
idiom rather than a British one. However, the album received positive
reviews in the U.K. Howard Johnson of Kerrang! magazine (No.51 – Sept
22-Oct 5, 1983) praised the album as "possibly Rainbow's most complete
work to date" and called "Desperate Heart" and "Street of Dreams" "two
of this year's finest tunes".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Out_of_Shape)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog.
D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The
second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the
format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. Stranded (04:29)
02. Can't Let You Go (04:21)
03. Fool For The Night (04:04)
04. Fire Dance (04:30)
05. Anybody There (02:38)
06. Desperate Heart (04:04)
07. Street Of Dreams (04:26)
08. Drinking With The Devil (03:44)
09. Snowman (04:32)
10. Make Your Move (03:56)
Thanks for the Rainbow CDs
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