Label: Warner Music (Japan), WPCR-13527
Style: Symphonic Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 77:12
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 558 Mb
Charts: UK #16, AUS #27, AUT #9, CAN #3, GER #2, ITA #10, JPN #12, NLD #4, NOR #8, SWE #7, SWI #3, US #5. FRA & UK: Gold; GER & JP: Platinum; CAN: 2x Platinum; US: 3x Platinum.
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" was one of the songs from Rabin's set of demos; its bass line and its hook had been written while he was in the bathroom. When the song was chosen for inclusion on the album, Squire replaced Rabin's original bridge. The song features a sample from the horn section of "Kool Is Back" by Funk, Inc., that Horn intended to use on an album by Malcolm McLaren, which he was also producing. The sample was then stored onto his Fairlight CMI and played by White. Rabin had used the same guitar tone for the opening on a session he did for Manfred Mann's Earth Band, which involved panning two guitar tracks left and right and aimed for a sound "as heavy as possible".
"Hold On" was originally titled "Moving In"; the final song was an amalgamation of two songs Rabin had written as they both had the same tempo. The chorus of "Hold On" was retained with its verses taken from "Moving In".
"It Can Happen" was written on the piano by Squire, with its introduction put together by Rabin to go with his piano chords.
"Changes" was another song from Rabin's demos, with its introduction put together by White. Rabin developed it during a "depressed time", after a potential solo album deal with Geffen Records fell through as they wished for him to join a band and play more "like Foreigner".
"Cinema" is an instrumental track recorded live at AIR Studios. Originally the group developed an unreleased 20-minute song named "Time" and decided to include its two-minute opening on the final album.
"Leave It" developed from a bass line from Squire and a melody from Rabin. When it came to recording the song, the band were not satisfied with the drum sound they were getting in the studio, so they recorded the vocals first. However, one of the engineers had removed the song's click track time references, causing various synchronisation problems. Rabin spent as much as three days re-doing the vocals onto a Synclavier, but it "didn't feel completely right. So we redid the whole thing on top of the Synclavier stuff", a process that took several weeks.
The lyrics to "Our Song" mentions the city of Toledo, Ohio, itself a reference to the band's show at the Toledo Sports Arena on their 1977 tour where the temperature on stage reached 126 °F (52 °C). The song received considerable radio airplay in the Toledo area.
"City of Love" was inspired by Rabin's visit to Harlem in New York City while on his way to a rehearsal with Foreigner. His taxi arrived at the wrong address in a dangerous part of the area. Upon his return to Los Angeles, Rabin started to write an "ominous kind of thing" which came easy to him following the experience, "the idea of waiting for the night to come ... the derelicts came out of the sewers at nighttime to be thugs. Later Jon put his slant on it which made it more interesting". The opening features a looped snippet of the introduction to Pines of Rome by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi as part of the backing track.
"Hearts" is the album's second track that is credited to the whole group: Rabin came up with the chorus and bridge a few months prior to meeting Squire and White for the first time; Kaye wrote its keyboard introduction, Rabin developed a melody from it, and Anderson developed its counter-melody.
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01. Owner Of A Lonely Heart (04:30)
02. Hold On (05:18)
03. It Can Happen (05:29)
04. Changes (06:20)
05. Cinema (02:07)
06. Leave It (04:13)
07. Our Song (04:18)
08. City Of Love (04:52)
09. Hearts (07:43)
10. Leave It (Single Remix) (03:56)
11. Make It Easy (06:12)
12. It Can Happen (Cinema Version) (06:05)
13. It's Over (05:41)
14. Owner Of A Lonely Heart (Extended Remix) (07:05)
15. Leave It (''A Capella'' Version) (03:18)
