Simple Mission Explained

Simple Mission
Type:Studio album
Artist:Glass Tiger
Cover:SimpleMission.jpg
Released:1991
Recorded:1990
Studio:A&M Studios, Los Angeles, Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, and Distorto Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre:Pop
Length:53:59
Label:Capitol[1]
Producer:Tom Werman
Prev Title:Diamond Sun
Prev Year:1988
Next Title:Air Time: The Best of Glass Tiger
Next Year:1993

Simple Mission is the third album by the Canadian band Glass Tiger, released in 1991.[2] [3]

The single "My Town" features Rod Stewart on lead vocals alongside Alan Frew, and reached No. 33 on the UK, marking the band's second highest position in that country.[4] [5] "Animal Heart" received a Juno Award nomination.[6] The album was certified platinum in Canada.[7]

Production

The album was produced mostly by Tom Werman.[8] Tony Thompson played drums on the majority of its tracks. The band attempted to incorporate rock styles alongside its pop.[9]

Critical reception

The Toronto Star wrote: "By the fourth or fifth listen, one senses the pure, unvarnished Glass Tiger, and that's a band still very much rooted in the ethos of mid-'70s arena-rock, a hybrid of your basic REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Journey and Kansas."[10] The Windsor Star noted that the album "has a raunchier, gutsier sound on most of the tunes, a conscious effort on their part to emphasize guitar rather than keyboards." The Edmonton Journal concluded that "every cut on this uneven effort is slathered with rackety electric guitar riffs and self-consciously aggressive vocals that ape everyone from Aerosmith's Steve Tyler to Corey Hart."[11]

Track listing

Produced by Tom Werman except:

Personnel

Glass Tiger

Additional musicians

Production

Notes and References

  1. News: A Simple Mission Turns Complicated . The Kitchener-Waterloo Record . 4 Apr 1991 . C9.
  2. News: Kawchuk . Brent . Band puts boots to audience . Calgary Herald . 27 Mar 1991 . D10.
  3. News: Glass Tiger sharpens claws in musical makeover . The Gazette . 5 Dec 1991 . Montreal . D16.
  4. News: Burliuk . Greg . Simple Mission Glass Tiger . The Kingston Whig-Standard . 20 Apr 1991 . Magazine . 1.
  5. Web site: Glass Tiger . Official Charts . 8 February 2023.
  6. News: Rubinoff . Joel . Rough as Glass: Well-manicured Tiger a tame cat compared to raunchy Sass Jordan . The Kitchener-Waterloo Record . 24 Apr 1992 . C7.
  7. Web site: You Say It's Your Birthday: Wayne Parker of Glass Tiger . https://web.archive.org/web/20230208143813/https://www.mtv.com/news/whosxq/you-say-its-your-birthday-wayne-parker-of-glass-tiger . dead . February 8, 2023 . MTV News . 8 February 2023.
  8. News: Barr . Greg . Glass Tiger back with new, sharper image . Ottawa Citizen . 30 Mar 1991 . G1.
  9. Book: Sharp . Keith . Music Express: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Canada's Music Magazine . 2014 . Dundurn Press . 238.
  10. News: MacInnis . Craig . McTiger bellyaches into the '90s . Toronto Star . 6 Apr 1991 . J8.
  11. News: Metella . Helen . Simple Mission Glass Tiger . Edmonton Journal . 21 Apr 1991 . D6.