Crashes (album)

Crashes
Studio album by The Records
Released 13 June 1980 (1980-06-13)
Recorded 1979–80
Studio AIR Studios, London
Townhouse Studios, London
Genre Power pop
Length 35:30
Label Virgin
Producer Craig Leon, Mick Glossop
The Records chronology
Shades in Bed
(1979)		 Crashes
(1980)		 Music on Both Sides
(1982)

Crashes is the second album by the British power pop band the Records, released in 1980 by Virgin Records.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
Rolling Stonefavourable [2]
Trouser Pressmixed [3]

Trouser Press called it "passable, but hardly a great follow-up" to Shades in Bed.[3] The album did not chart in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it "bubbled under" the Billboard 200 album chart at No. 204.[4]

Track listing

All songs written by Will Birch and John Wicks except where noted.

UK release

Side one
  1. "Rumour Sets the Woods Alight" – 3:02
  2. "Hearts in Her Eyes" – 3:20
  3. "I Don't Remember Your Name" – 3:35
  4. "Man with a Girlproof Heart" (Birch, Richie Bull) – 2:46
  5. "The Same Mistakes" – 4:15
Side two
  1. "Girl in Golden Disc" – 3:43
  2. "Spent a Week with You Last Night" – 3:10
  3. "Hearts Will Be Broken" – 3:45
  4. "The Worriers" – 3:25
  5. "Guitars in the Sky" – 4:05

US release

Side one
  1. "Man with a Girlproof Heart" (Birch, Bull) – 2:47
  2. "Hearts Will Be Broken" – 3:52
  3. "Girl in Golden Disc" – 3:47
  4. "I Don't Remember Your Name" – 3:38
  5. "Hearts in Her Eyes" – 3:20
Side two
  1. "Spent a Week with You Last Night" – 3:09
  2. "Rumour Sets the Woods Alight" – 3:06
  3. "The Worriers" – 3:29
  4. "The Same Mistakes" – 4:15
  5. "Guitars in the Sky" – 4:08

2004 CD release

  1. "Hearts in Her Eyes" – 3:21
  2. "Girl in Golden Disc" – 3:44
  3. "Rumour Sets the Woods Alight" – 3:04
  4. "I Don't Remember Your Name" – 3:33
  5. "The Same Mistakes" – 4:12
  6. "Man with a Girlproof Heart" (Birch, Bull) – 2:48
  7. "Hearts Will Be Broken" – 3:48
  8. "Spent a Week with You Last Night" – 3:11
  9. "The Worriers" – 3:28
  10. "Guitars in the Sky" – 4:14
  11. "Injury Time" – 3:08
  12. "Vamp" – 3:11
  13. "So Sorry" – 2:50
  14. "Faces at the Window" – 3:39
  15. "The Same Mistakes" (1979) - 4:00
  16. "Man with a Girlproof Heart" (1979) (Birch, Bull) – 3:02

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Schnee, Steve "Spaz". "Crashes – The Records | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ De Matteis, J. M. Rolling Stone October 30, 1980: 54
  3. 1 2 Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: Records". TrouserPress.com. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1998). Bubbling Under Singles & Albums. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 367. ISBN 0-89820-128-4.

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