Badlands (Badlands album) explained

Badlands
Type:	studio
Artist:	Badlands
Cover:	badlandslee.jpg
Released:	May 11, 1989
Recorded:	October 1988 – January 1989
Studio:	One On One Studios, Los Angeles, and The Record Plant, New York City
Length:	49:33
Label:	Titanium/Atlantic
Producer:	Paul O'Neill & Badlands
Next Title:	Voodoo Highway
Next Year:	1991

Badlands is the debut studio album by the band of the same name. This album features Ray Gillen and Eric Singer, who previously played together in Black Sabbath. This album also features guitarist Jake E. Lee and bassist Greg Chaisson. Singer later played on Chaisson's solo album It's About Time. The album had sold 400,000 copies by 1990, according to Chaisson, in a Hit Parader interview from that year. It was also ranked No. 35 in Rolling Stones list of 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time.^[1]

Critical reception

Kirk Blows, reviewer of British music newspaper Music Week, named LP as "accomplished and worthy debut" and praised its diversity.^[2] Billboard called this record "a collection of well-crafted tunes that should jump out of the radio and sound great live."^[3]

Personnel

Badlands

• Ray Gillen – lead vocals, harmonica
• Jake E. Lee – guitars, mandolin, sitar, keyboards
• Greg Chaisson – bass
• Eric Singer – drums

Additional musicians

• Taso Karras – tambourine, maracas
• Bob Kinkel – keyboards programming

Production

• Paul O'Neill – producer
• James A. Ball – engineer, mixing
• Chuck Cavanaugh, Glen Marchese, Joe Henehan, John Mathias, Teddy Trewhella – additional engineering
• Dave Parla, Deek Venarchick – assistant engineers
• David Thoener – mixing
• Jack Skinner – mastering at Europadisk, New York

Accolades

Publication	Country	Accolade	Rank
Rolling Stone	US	50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time^[4]	35
Loudwire	US	Top 30 Hair Metal Albums^[5]	27
Metal Rules	US	Top 50 Glam Metal Albums^[6]	43

External links

• Album information at Black Sabbath Online

Notes and References

1. 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time: Badlands . Beaujour . Tom . Rolling Stone. June 23, 2018.
2. Blows. Kirk. Review: Badlands – Badlands. Music Week. 10 June 1989. 8 June 2022. 20. London. Spotlight Publications Ltd.. World Radio History. 0265-1548. https://web.archive.org/web/20211231042008/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1989/MW-1989-06-10.pdf. 31 December 2021.
3. Review: Badlands – Badlands. Billboard. 27 May 1989. 101. 21. 72. New York. Billboard Publications Inc.. 24 June 2022. World Radio History. 0006-2510. https://web.archive.org/web/20220403230243/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1989/BB-1989-05-27.pdf. 3 April 2022.
4. Web site: August 31, 2019. Rolling Stone - 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time. June 18, 2021. Rolling Stone. en-US.
5. Web site: DiVita. Joe. November 9, 2016. Top 30 Hair Metal Albums. June 18, 2021. Loudwire. en.
6. Web site: Metal Rules - Top 50 Glam Metal Albums. Metal Rules. February 24, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20171126083532/http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/index.php?id=8. dead. 2017-11-26. December 2003.