Amore (The Hooters album)

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Amore
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Studio album by
The Hooters
Released1983
Recorded1983
GenreRock
Length25:04
LabelAntenna[1]
ProducerEric Bazilian, Rob Hyman
The Hooters chronology
Amore
(1983) 		Nervous Night
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic2/5 stars[2]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide2.5/5 stars[3]

Amore is the debut studio album by American rock band The Hooters, released in 1983.[4][5]

Background[]

The Hooters got their start with their independently released album Amore. It cost $12,000 to record. The album sold over 100,000 copies, mostly in the Philadelphia area, and led to their major label record deal with Columbia Records in 1984.[6]

Amore introduced the original versions of four songs: "All You Zombies," "Hanging on a Heartbeat," "Fightin' on the Same Side," and "Blood from a Stone," which would reappear in different versions on later albums.

In 2001, 18 years after its original release on LP album and cassette, Amore was made available on compact disc and included two cover versions as bonus tracks: The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" from June 15, 1986, at A Conspiracy of Hope, a benefit concert on behalf of Amnesty International at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and The Skatalites' "Man in the Street," a live demo from the first Hooters recording session in 1980, which was also the band's first song to be played on the radio.

Critical reception[]

Trouser Press wrote: "The Hooters’ easy facility in many stylistic genres (reggae, the main impulse on Amore, remains in the repertoire, along with glossed-up heartland rock versed in folk traditionalism) matches an inability to pin down any clear-cut personality."[7]

Track listing[]

  1. "Amore" (Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian) - (3:31)
  2. "Blood from a Stone" (Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian) - (3:19)
  3. "Hanging on a Heartbeat" (Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian, Glenn Goss, Jeff Ziv) - (3:01)
  4. "All You Zombies" (Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian) - (3:47)
  5. "Birdman" (Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian) - (3:17)
  6. "Don't Wanna Fight" (Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian) - (2:50)
  7. "Fightin' on the Same Side" (Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian) - (2:53)
  8. "Concubine" (Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian) - (2:22)

2001 CD release bonus songs:

  1. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - (3:59)
  2. "Man in the Street" (Don Drummond) - (3:58)

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Thompson, Dave (December 11, 2018). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440248917 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Amore - The Hooters | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 556.
  4. ^ "The Hooters | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ^ Beviglia, Jim (November 15, 2018). Playing Back the 80s: A Decade of Unstoppable Hits. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538116401 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "THE HOOTERS ARE ON THEIR OWN TIME NOW". Los Angeles Times. March 30, 1986.
  7. ^ "Hooters". Trouser Press. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
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