Diamonds Diamonds Explained

Diamonds, Diamonds
Type:	Greatest hits
Artist:	Max Webster
Cover:	DiamondsDiamonds.jpg
Released:	7 August 1981
Recorded:	May 1975 – January 1979
Genre:	Rock
Length:	47:24
Label:	Anthem
Producer:	Various
Prev Title:	Universal Juveniles
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	The Best of Max Webster
Next Year:	1989

Diamonds, Diamonds is a "Greatest Hits" album by the Canadian rock band Max Webster. It was released in 1981 after the band had broken up, and features two new tracks: "Hot Spots" and "Overnight Sensation", which were recorded in 1975 during the debut album sessions. No songs from the band's fifth album, Universal Juveniles, are included on this album. An alternate version of "On the Road" from the High Class in Borrowed Shoes sessions was slated for release but pulled at the eleventh hour.

Track listing

All songs by Kim Mitchell and Pye Dubois, except where indicated

Side one

1. "Gravity" – 4:52
2. "High Class in Borrowed Shoes" – 3:59
3. "Diamonds, Diamonds" – 3:19
4. "Summer's Up" – 2:36
5. "Blowing the Blues Away" (Terry Watkinson) – 3:15
6. "Let Go the Line" (Watkinson) – 3:34
7. "A Million Vacations" (Gary McCracken, Dubois) – 3:14

Side two

1. "The Party" – 4:46
2. "Hot Spots" – 2:41
3. "Paradise Skies" – 3:27
4. "Overnight Sensation" – 2:55
5. "Lip Service" – 4:02
6. "Hangover" – 4:38

Tracks 1–5, 13 produced by Max Webster and Terry Brown
Tracks 8, 9, 11, 12 produced by Max Webster, Terry Brown, Mike Tilka
Tracks 6, 7, 10 produced by Max Webster and John De Nottbeck

Personnel

• Kim Mitchell – guitar and vocals
  • Paul Kersey – drums and percussion Gary McCracken – drums
• Mike Tilka – bass guitar and vocals
• Dave Myles – bass guitar
• Terry Watkinson – keyboards and vocals
• Pye Dubois – lyrics