Label: Polydor Records (Japan), P33P 50026
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
Time: 40:50
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 262 Mb
Bent Out of Shape would be Rainbow's final studio album before their 12-year hiatus from the studio. It also proved to be the band's final studio album with vocalist Joe Lynn Turner, bassist Roger Glover and keyboardist David Rosenthal, and their only one to feature drummer Chuck Burgi, who replaced Bobby Rondinelli just prior to the album's recording sessions.
The instrumental "Snowman" is based upon "Walking in the Air," a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film The Snowman, which was based on Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book of the same name.
The album's cover was designed by Hipgnosis, and alongside Led Zeppelin's Coda, the artwork was amongst the last to be created by the studio before disbanding in 1983.
This album is generally referred to by critics and fans as a commercial effort, with the band attempting to repeat the success of the song "Stone Cold" from the previous album Straight Between the Eyes. As a result, some of the songs, like the first single released from this album, "Street of Dreams", are usually considered to be more in the album-oriented rock style, instead of the hard rock sound of earlier Rainbow albums. The album was particularly aimed at the US market: the title is an American idiom rather than a British one. However, the album received positive reviews in the U.K. Howard Johnson of Kerrang! magazine (No.51 – Sept 22-Oct 5, 1983) praised the album as "possibly Rainbow's most complete work to date" and called "Desperate Heart" and "Street of Dreams" "two of this year's finest tunes".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Out_of_Shape)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog. D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. Stranded (04:29)
02. Can't Let You Go (04:21)
03. Fool For The Night (04:04)
04. Fire Dance (04:30)
05. Anybody There (02:38)
06. Desperate Heart (04:04)
07. Street Of Dreams (04:26)
08. Drinking With The Devil (03:44)
09. Snowman (04:32)
10. Make Your Move (03:56)
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