Backlash (Bad English album)

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Backlash
Backlash (album).jpg
Studio album by
Bad English
ReleasedAugust 27, 1991
Recorded1991
StudioConway Studios, Secret Sound L.A., Can-Am Recorders and Zoo Studios
GenreHard rock[1]
Length48:22
LabelEpic[2]
ProducerRon Nevison[3]
Bad English chronology
Bad English
(1989) 		Backlash
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic2/5 stars[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB[5]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide2/5 stars[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide1.5/5 stars[7]

Backlash is the second and final studio album by American AOR supergroup Bad English, released in 1991.[1]

The album peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard 200.[8]

Critical reception[]

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "taken together, the album — with its unceasing references to rain and rivers — inevitably bogs down, but heard one at a time over the FM in the Ford, even its platitudes, given [John] Waite’s delivery, add up to a hack-rock miracle or two."[5] The Rolling Stone Album Guide deemed Backlash "more spirited" than the debut.[7]

Track listing[]

  1. "So This Is Eden" (John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Russ Ballard) - 5:09
  2. "Straight to Your Heart" (Waite, Neal Schon, Cain, Mark Spiro) - 4:09
  3. "Time Stood Still" (Waite, Ricky Phillips, Jesse Harms) - 5:23
  4. "The Time Alone with You" (Waite, Diane Warren, Cain) - 4:41
  5. "Dancing Off the Edge of the World" (Waite, Cain, Schon) - 4:54
  6. "Rebel Say a Prayer" (Waite, Cain, Ballard) - 4:23
  7. "Savage Blue" (Waite, Cain, Schon) - 4:33
  8. "Pray for Rain" (Waite, Spiro, Cain) - 5:03
  9. "Make Love Last" (Waite, Cain) - 5:19
  10. "Life at the Top" (Waite, Cain, Spiro, Tim Pierce) - 4:51

Singles[]

The following singles were released from the album, with the highest charting positions listed.

# Title Release Date Hot 100 CAN
1. "Straight to Your Heart" 1991 42[9]

Personnel[]

Band members
Additional musicians
Production
  • Ron Nevison - producer, engineer
  • Tony Phillips - vocal producer
  • Rand & Rose - mixing
  • Ted Jensen - mastering at Sterling Sound
  • Dale Lavi - art direction and design

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Bad English | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 1: MUZE. p. 354.CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. ^ "Waite's Songwriting Shines On Latest Bad English Set". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 12, 1991 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Backlash at AllMusic
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Backlash". EW.com.
  6. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1204.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 30.
  8. ^ "Bad English". Billboard.
  9. ^ "Bad English". Billboard.
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