Glenn Frey "Sexy Girl (Single & Video)"

"Sexy Girl" is a song by an American musician, singer and songwriter Glenn Frey. It was released as the lead single from his 1984 album The Allnighter.

"Sexy Girl" was a moderate success, peaking at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1984. The song also became a minor hit in Australia and Canada.

The video features a cameo appearance by then Los Angeles Raiders defensive end Howie Long.

Track listings:

7" single

1. "Sexy Girl" 3:30
2. "Better in the U.S.A." 3:00

Glenn Frey "The Heat Is On (Single & Video)"

"The Heat Is On" is a song written by Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey, and recorded by Glenn Frey for the American film Beverly Hills Cop (1984). The song was published as a single and as the sixth track of the album Beverly Hills Cop: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984).

According to Frey, he was invited to an early screening of the film, and about two months later was sent a demo of a song written by Keith Forsey and Harold Faltermeyer to be used in the film to see if he was interested in singing the song. Frey agreed, and recorded the vocal part in one day. The following day he played the guitar and recorded the background vocals, and was paid $15,000 for the work.

The mid-to-up-tempo recording featured a steady drumbeat, synthesizer, and guitar, with a repeated saxophone riff framing the lyrical message. The guitar solo is played by Frey himself.

Cash Box called it "a hard rocking outing featuring the distinctive vocals of ex-Eagle Frey" and added that it contains "a signature horn riff and some effective dynamics." Billboard said it "features a bustling rock 'n' roll beat, electric organ (or equivalent) and a wailing sax."

The song became a major hit single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March 1985, behind "Can't Fight This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon. It was also popular internationally, reaching No. 2 on the Australian Singles Chart in 1985 and gaining peaks of No. 8 on the Canadian Singles Chart and No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, it is the highest charting solo single by any member of the Eagles.

The music video for the song received heavy MTV airplay. It showed a film editor assembling scenes for Beverly Hills Cop while Frey and a band played the song in the adjacent room, with action scenes from the movie then directly interspersed. Among the musicians shown in the video is saxophone player Beverly Dahlke-Smith (the actual recording being made by session horn player David Woodford) and Frey's long-time drummer, Michael Huey.

The recording subsequently appeared on Frey's albums Glenn Frey Live (1993) and Solo Collection (1995) as well as on some various-artists "top hits" collections.

The St. Louis Cardinals did a remix of this song when they went to the World Series in 1985 to face the Kansas City Royals.

Track listing

7" single

1. "The Heat Is On" Keith Forsey, Harold Faltermeyer 3:45
2. "Shoot Out" Harold Faltermeyer 2:44

Total length: 06:29

12" single

1. "The Heat Is On (extended version)" 6:04
2. "The Heat Is On (dance version)" Brian Reeves 5:40
3. "The Heat Is On (dub version)" Brian Reeves 2:39

Total length: 14:23

Glenn Frey "Solo Collection (USA, MCA Records, MCABD-11227)"

Solo Collection is a greatest hits album of American musician Glenn Frey's solo career, released March 28, 1995 on MCA Records.

AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album four and a half stars out of five, stating "Solo Collection performs a welcome service by collecting the highlights from his decidedly uneven solo albums, including all of his biggest hits. Not only is it a perfect introduction, it's arguably the most consistent solo record Frey ever released."

The album did not chart in its initial 1995 release, but reached No. 82 on Billboard 200 in 2016 after Frey's death.

Track listing

1. "This Way to Happiness" (Frey, Oliver, Tempchin) – 3:26
2. "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" (Tempchin, Whitlock) – 4:05
3. "Common Ground" (Frey, Tempchin) – 4:43
4. "Call on Me" (Frey, Tempchin) – 4:10
5. "The One You Love" (Frey, Tempchin) – 4:33
6. "Sexy Girl" (Frey, Tempchin) – 3:30
7. "Smuggler's Blues" (Frey, Tempchin) – 3:50
8. "The Heat Is On" (Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey) – 3:46
9. "You Belong to the City" (Frey, Tempchin) – 5:52
10. "True Love" (Frey, Tempchin) – 4:40
11. "Soul Searchin'" (Cameron, Frey, Tempchin) – 5:35
12. "Part of Me, Part of You" (Frey, Tempchin) – 5:57
13. "I've Got Mine" (Frey, Tempchin) – 5:35
14. "River of Dreams" (Frey, Tempchin) – 6:08
15. "Rising Sun/Brave New World" (Frey, Oliver, Scheiner, Tempchin) – 7:00
16. "Strange Weather" (live) (Frey, Tempchin, Oliver) – 5:04 (only available on the import version)

Glass Tiger "Simple Mission (Canada, EMI Of Canada, 7 92922 2)"

Simple Mission is the third album by the Canadian band Glass Tiger, released in 1991.

The single "My Town" features Rod Stewart on lead vocals alongside Alan Frew, and reached No. 33 on the UK, marking the band's second highest position in that country. "Animal Heart" received a Juno Award nomination. The album was certified platinum in Canada.

The album was produced mostly by Tom Werman. Tony Thompson played drums on the majority of its tracks. The band attempted to incorporate rock styles alongside its pop.

The Toronto Star wrote: "By the fourth or fifth listen, one senses the pure, unvarnished Glass Tiger, and that's a band still very much rooted in the ethos of mid-'70s arena-rock, a hybrid of your basic REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Journey and Kansas." The Windsor Star noted that the album "has a raunchier, gutsier sound on most of the tunes, a conscious effort on their part to emphasize guitar rather than keyboards." The Edmonton Journal concluded that "every cut on this uneven effort is slathered with rackety electric guitar riffs and self-consciously aggressive vocals that ape everyone from Aerosmith's Steve Tyler to Corey Hart."

Track listing

1. "Blinded" Connelly, Frew, Dvoskin 4:38
2. "Animal Heart" Connelly, Frew, Dvoskin 3:50
3. "Let's Talk" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:23
4. "Where Did Our Love Go" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:31
5. "My Town" Connelly, Frew, Parker, Cregan 4:49
6. "The Rhythm of Your Love" Connelly, Frew 4:38
7. "Spanish Slumber" Frew, Reid 1:29
8. "Simple Mission" Frew, Reid 4:34
9. "Stand or Fall" Frew, Reid, Vallance, Sandford 3:59
10. "Rescued (By the Arms of Love)" Frew, Parker, Washbrook 4:16
11. "One to One" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:30
12. "One Night Alone" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:06
13. "(She Said) Love Me Like a Man" Frew, Reid, Vallance 4:09

Produced by Tom Werman except:

track 5, produced by Tom Werman and Jim Cregan

track 7, produced by Sam Reid

track 11, produced by Tom Werman and Jim Vallance

Associate Producer: Sam Reid

Engineering: Eddie DeLena

Mixing: Eddie DeLena and David Thoener

Assistance: Neal Avron, Ed Goodreau, Greg Goldman, and Efren Herrera

Additional Engineering: Neal Avron

Recording: Jim Vallance

Mastering: Stephen Marcussen (Precision Lacquer, Los Angeles).

Glass Tiger "Diamond Sun (USA, EMI-Manhattan Records, CDP-7 48684-2)"

Diamond Sun is the second album by Canadian band Glass Tiger. It was released by EMI Manhattan Records on April 13, 1988. The album was certified triple platinum in Canada and featured the single "I'm Still Searching", which peaked at No. 2 in Canada. The album was produced by Jim Vallance.

Track listing

1. "Diamond Sun" Alan Frew/Jim Vallance   5:22
2. "Far Away From Here" Frew/Michael Hanson/Sam Reid   4:08
3. "I'm Still Searching" Frew/Hanson/Reid   3:58
4. "A Lifetime of Moments" Frew/Hanson   4:58
5. "It's Love U Feel"   Frew/Reid/Vallance   5:32
6. "My Song" (with The Chieftains) Frew/Reid/Vallance   3:26
7. "(Watching) Worlds Crumble" Frew/Reid/Vallance  4:53
8. "Send Your Love" Frew/Hanson   4:28
9. "Suffer in Silence" Frew/Reid   3:35
10. "This Island Earth"   Frew/Hanson/Reid  6:30

Total length: 46:54

Management: Derek Sutton (Los Angeles, California), Gary Pring, and Joe Bamford (Toronto, Ontario, CA)

Recording: Jim Vallance, Randy Staub, Tom Henderson, and Brian Masterson

Mixing: Ed Thacker

Assistance: Randy Staub, Paul Milner, Glen Robinson, Darren Millar, Joe Mancuso, and Ciaran Byrne

Producing on Track 6: Sam Reid

Mastering: Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, NY

Art Direction, Design, and Sculpture: Heather Brown

Photography: Douglas Brown

Group Photography: Alison Wardman

Glass Tiger "The Thin Red Line (Canada, Capitol Records Of Canada, 0 7777 46313 2 7)"

The Thin Red Line is the debut album by Canadian band Glass Tiger. It was released by Manhattan Records in Canada on February 17, 1986.

The album is most famous for the single "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)". The song, which featured backup vocals by Bryan Adams, reached #1 on the Canadian charts and #2 in the United States. A follow-up single, "Someday", was also successful, reaching #7 in the United States and #14 in Canada.

Both Greg Burliuk of the Kingston Whig-Standard and Evelyn Erskine of the Ottawa Citizen compared the album to Duran Duran. Erskine dismissed the album and opined that the band "has yet to find its own musical direction", while Burliuk called the album uneven but praised the singles "Don't Forget Me", "Someday" and "You're What I Look For".

The album was certified quadruple platinum in Canada, and went gold in the United States.

It debuted on the RPM100 album charts in RPM the week of March 1, 1986, and peaked at #3 on the charts in the week of April 26. It remained in the top 100 for 67 weeks overall, concluding its chart run in the week of July 20, 1987. In the magazine's year-end charts, it placed as the 16th top-selling album of 1986, and the 27th top-selling album of 1987. It was named the 14th top-selling album of the year in The Record's year-end chart for 1986.

In the United States, the album peaked at #27 in the Billboard 200 in the week of February 7, 1987.

At the Juno Awards of 1986, the album won the Juno Award for Album of the Year. "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" also won for Single of the Year, and the band won Most Promising Group. "Someday" won Single of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1987, the first time in the award's history that the same artist won the award in two consecutive years for singles from the same album.

At the Grammy Awards in 1987, the band were nominated for Best New Artist.

The band swept the Rock Express magazine reader's poll in 1987, winning Top Canadian Group, Top Canadian Album for The Thin Red Line, and Top Canadian Single for "Don't Forget Me"

The album was remastered and reissued as a special anniversary edition double CD on June 19, 2012 by EMI Music Canada. In addition to the remastered album on the first disc, the second disc collects thirteen additional tracks including remixes, demos, single mixes, B-sides and live versions. A booklet with extensive liner notes is also included.

Track listing

1. "Thin Red Line" Alan Frew/Sam Reid/Al Connelly  4:57
2. "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" Frew/Reid/Jim Vallance   4:08
3. "Closer to You" Frew/Reid/Michael Hanson/Wayne Parker   3:37
4. "Vanishing Tribe"  Frew/Reid/Connelly/Hanson/Parker/Reid   4:06
5. "Looking at a Picture"  Frew/Reid/Connelly/Hanson/Parker/Gerald O'Brien  4:02 
6. "The Secret"   Frew/Reid   0:47
7. "Ancient Evenings" Frew/Connelly/Reid/Hanson/Parker  4:55
8. "Ecstasy"     Frew/Reid/Connelly   4:25
9. "Someday"   Frew/Connelly/Vallance   3:37
10. "I Will Be There" Frew/Connelly/Hanson  3:28
11. "You're What I Look For" Frew/Connelly/Hanson   3:50

Total length: 41:59

Engineering: Mike Jones, Paul Northfield, Jim Vallance, Lorne Feld, Mike Baskerville, Hayward Parrott, and Robin Brouwers

Assistance: Randy Staub, Angelo Civiero, Robert Digioia, and Steve Ibelshauser

Mixing: Ed Thacker and Sam Reid ("The Secret")

Producing on "The Secret": Sam Reid

Mastering: Bob Ludwig

Photography: Deborah Samuel

Design: Heather Brown

Cover Concept Deborah Samuel and Dal Heslip

Logo: Shoot That Tiger!

Garbage "Strange Little Birds"

Strange Little Birds is the sixth studio album by American rock band Garbage. It was released on June 10, 2016, through the band's own record label, Stunvolume. It is their second independent album release, and follows 2012's Not Your Kind of People. The album's press release describes Strange Little Birds as "a sweeping, cinematic record of a unified mood: darkness".

Strange Little Birds was preceded by a lead single, "Empty", and supported by an international tour.

Singer Shirley Manson said, "the guiding principle was keeping it fresh, and relying on instinct both lyrically and musically"; "To me, this record, funnily enough, has the most to do with the first record than any of the previous records. It’s getting back to that beginner’s headspace." Manson described Strange Little Birds as a "romantic" record. Manson clarified later, "What I mean by romance, really, is vulnerability. I used to feel so scared, and I think that was why I was so aggressive — but I’m much more willing to admit weaknesses than I was before.” Each song, she says, addresses “different points in my life between me and a person I’ve loved. They’re hot spots in my life, when I was afraid, or vulnerable, or didn’t behave at my best.” Drummer Butch Vig said that the album is a departure for the band, darker and more "cinematic and atmospheric".

Manson's approach to lyrical subject matter came from her perception of an absence of darkness in current pop cultural trends. "I feel like the musical landscape of late has been incredibly happy and shiny and poppy. Everybody’s fronting all the time, dancing as fast as they can, smiling as hard as they can, working on their brand. Nobody ever says, ‘Actually, I’m lost and I don’t have a fucking clue what I’m doing with the rest of my life and I'm frightened.’ "There aren't really any upbeat pop songs,” says Vig. “Even "Empty", which has a big, anthemic guitar sound, has pretty dark lyrics".

Writing and recording for Strange Little Birds took over two years, beginning in early 2013. Garbage recorded over twenty tracks during the sessions. The band recorded the album in Vig's basement and at engineer Billy Bush's Red Razor Sounds studio in Los Angeles. Vig stated, "we mixed it so it’s kind of confessional, almost confrontational. On a lot of songs, Shirley’s voice sounds really loud, in your face, and really dry. There are not a lot of effects. There are some moments on the record that get really huge, but a lot of it is really intimate." Two of the songs written during the sessions, "The Chemicals" and "On Fire", were given a vinyl release on Record Store Day the previous year.

Strange Little Birds debuted at number 17 on the UK Albums Chart with 5,293 copies sold on its first week, becoming Garbage's first studio album to miss the top 10 in the United Kingdom. It dropped out of the top 100 the following week, making it the band's lowest-charting album in the UK. In the United States, the album sold 20,000 (21,000 with TEA and SEA units) copies to debut at number one on both the Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts, and at number 14 on the Billboard 200. The album also peaked at number nine on the Australian Albums Chart, earning the band their sixth consecutive top 10 studio album in that country.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Garbage

1. "Sometimes" 2:52
2. "Empty" 3:54
3. "Blackout" 6:32
4. "If I Lost You" 4:11
5. "Night Drive Loneliness" 5:24
6. "Even Though Our Love Is Doomed" 5:26
7. "Magnetized" 3:54
8. "We Never Tell" 4:25
9. "So We Can Stay Alive" 6:01
10. "Teaching Little Fingers to Play" 3:58
11. "Amends" 6:04

Total length: 52:41