Hard Volume Explained

Hard Volume
Type:studio
Artist:Rollins Band
Cover:Rollins Band Hard Volume.jpg
Released:1989
Recorded:July–December 1988
Genre:Post-hardcore[1]
Length:71:03
Label:Texas Hotel
Producer:Theo Van Rock
Prev Title:Life Time
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:Turned On
Next Year:1990

Hard Volume is the second studio album by American rock band Rollins Band, released in 1989.[2] [3] [4] It was reissued with previously unreleased tracks in 1999 through Buddah Records.[5]

The original CD release contained a 32-minute jam on the Velvet Underground outtake "Move Right In," titled "Joy Riding with Frank." The track was recorded live in Linz, Austria, during the band's 1988 tour. The 1999 remastered edition replaced this track with six studio tracks: three from the album session at Echo Sound in Los Angeles in December 1988, and three from a demo session recorded in July 1988 at Graphic Studios in New Jersey.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that Rollins "sinks into an existential funk on the seven-song Hard Volume ... Oddly, the rest of the band seems unaffected by his moods, and the music — a well-organized rock juggernaut — thunders along happily."[6] Dave Thompson, in Alternative Rock, called the album "a funked-up swagger that is moody and electrically eclectic."[7]

Track listing

All tracks composed by the Rollins Band, except where indicated.

Original release

  1. "Hard" – 4:06
  2. "What Have I Got" – 4:58
  3. "I Feel Like This" – 4:26
  4. "Planet Joe" – 4:18
  5. "Love Song" – 6:22
  6. "Turned Inside Out" – 6:24
  7. "Down and Away" – 8:20
  8. "Joy Riding with Frank" - 32:04

Remastered version (1999)

  1. "Hard" – 4:06
  2. "What Have I Got" – 4:58
  3. "I Feel Like This" – 4:26
  4. "Planet Joe" – 4:18
  5. "Love Song" – 6:22
  6. "Turned Inside Out" – 6:24
  7. "Down and Away" – 8:20

Session outtakes

  1. "Tearing" – 4:58*
  2. "You Didn't Need" – 5:11*
  3. "Ghost Rider" (Martin Rev, Alan Vega) – 7:23*

Demo: July 1988

  1. "What Have I Got" – 4:33*
  2. "Thin Air" – 8:21*
  3. "Down and Away" – 7:14*

Personnel

Rollins Band

Production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rollins Band - Hard Volume .
  2. Web site: Rollins Band | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  3. Web site: Henry ROLLINS biography. The Great Rock Bible. December 30, 2020. February 22, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200222043023/http://thegreatrockbible.com/portfolio-item/henry-rollins-biography/. dead.
  4. Book: Buckley, Peter. The Rough Guide to Rock. December 30, 2003. Rough Guides. 9781843531050. Google Books.
  5. Web site: Artist News. CMJ New Music Report. November 15, 1999. CMJ Network, Inc.. Google Books.
  6. Web site: Rollins Band . Trouser Press . December 30, 2020.
  7. Book: Thompson, Dave. Alternative Rock. December 30, 2000. Hal Leonard Corporation. 9780879306076. Google Books.

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