Wild Horses (Wild Horses album) explained

Wild Horses
Type:	studio
Artist:	Wild Horses
Cover:	Wild-Horses-Wild-Horses.jpg
Released:	14 April 1980
Recorded:	December 1979 – January 1980
Studio:	Konk Studios, Hornsey, London
Genre:	Hard rock
Length:	36:43
Label:	EMI
Producer:	Trevor Rabin, Wild Horses
Next Title:	Stand Your Ground
Next Year:	1981

Wild Horses is the debut studio album by the British rock band, Wild Horses, co-produced with Trevor Rabin at Konk Studios in London, and released on 14 April 1980 on EMI Records. It peaked at No. 38, and spent four weeks in the UK Albums Chart.^[1]

It was subsequently issued on CD in Japan in 1993 on Toshiba-EMI, and by the now defunct UK labels Zoom Club in 1999 and Krescendo Records in 2009, respectively, both with the title The First Album. The most recent re-issue came in February 2013, courtesy of UK-based Rock Candy Records, and includes a host of unreleased studios demos as bonus tracks not found on previous re-issues.

Track listing

All songs by Jimmy Bain and Brian Robertson, except where noted

Side one

1. "Reservation" - 3:47
2. "Face Down" - 3:30
3. "Blackmail" - 2:25
4. "Flyaway" (Bain, Phil Lynott) - 3:33
5. "Dealer" (Bain, Robertson, Scott Gorham) - 4:56

Side two

6. "Street Girl" - 3:28
7. "No Strings Attached" - 3:56
8. "Criminal Tendencies" - 3:46
9. "Nights on the Town" - 3:21
10. "Woman" - 4:01

Zoom Club re-issue bonus tracks

11. "Rocky Mountain Way" (Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli) - 4:33 (live in Osaka, Japan)
12. "Saturday Night" (Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper) - 7:20 (live in Osaka, Japan)

Krescendo re-issue bonus tracks

11. "The Axe" (live from BBC 'In Concert', 1981)
12. "In the City" (live from BBC 'In Concert', 1981)
13. "New York City" (live from BBC 'In Concert', 1981)

Rock Candy re-issue bonus tracks

11. "The Rapist" - 3:37 (B-side of "Criminal Tendencies" single)
12. "Reservation" (demo) - 4:22
13. "Blackmail" (demo) - 2:41
14. "Flyaway" (demo) - 3:12 (featuring Phil Lynott)
15. "Dealer" (demo) - 4:49
16. "The Rapist" (demo) - 3:38
17. "Retribution" (demo) - 5:22
18. "Breathe on Me" (demo) - 5:51

Personnel

Wild Horses

• Brian Robertson - lead guitars, backing and lead (3, 9) vocals, bass (4, 9), arrangements
• Neil Carter - lead guitars, backing vocals, keyboards
• Jimmy Bain - bass (1-3, 5-8, 10), lead vocals (1, 2, 4-8, 10), rhythm guitars, keyboards, arrangements
• Clive Edwards - drums

Production

• Trevor Rabin - producer
• John Rollo - engineer

Release history

Date	Region	Label	Catalogue	Format	Notes
14 April 1980	Worldwide	EMI Records	EMC3326	vinyl
1980	Japan	Toshiba-EMI	EMS-81315	vinyl
1993	Japan	Toshiba-EMI/Insideout	TOCP-7975	CD
1999	UK	Zoom Club	ZCRCD22	CD	with the title The First Album
2009	UK	Krescendo	KRECD32	CD	with the title The First Album
2013	UK	Rock Candy	CANDY168	CD

Notes and References

1. Book: Roberts, David. 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . London. 1-904994-10-5. 602.