Backlash (Bad English album) explained

Backlash
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Bad English
Cover:	Backlash_(album).jpg
Recorded:	1991
Studio:	Conway Studios and Secret Sound L.A. (Hollywood, California); Can-Am Recorders (Tarzana, California); Zoo Studios (Encino, California).
Genre:	Hard rock^[1] AOR
Length:	48:22
Label:	Epic
Producer:	Ron Nevison^[2]
Prev Title:	Bad English
Prev Year:	1989

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.^[3]

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." The Rolling Stone Album Guide deemed Backlash "more spirited" than the debut.

Personnel

Bad English

• John Waite – lead vocals
• Jonathan Cain – keyboards, backing vocals
• Neal Schon – guitars, backing vocals
• Ricky Phillips – bass, backing vocals
• Deen Castronovo – drums, backing vocals

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bad English | Biography & History. AllMusic.
2. Waite's Songwriting Shines On Latest Bad English Set. Billboard. October 12, 1991. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
3. Bad English. Billboard.