A Matter of Attitude
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| Released | 1986 | |||
| Recorded | Autumn 1986 | |||
| Studio | Easy Sound, Copenhagen | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, AOR, glam metal | |||
| Length | 37:58 | |||
| Label | EMI (Europe) Capitol (North America) | |||
| Producer | Svein Dag Hauge | |||
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| Singles from A Matter of Attitude | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 5/10[2] |
A Matter of Attitude is the second album by Danish rock band Fate, released in 1986.
The album was in the hook-filled melodic hard rock/pop metal vein, featuring tight vocal harmonies over a strong rhythm section, guitar, and sweeping synthesizer. Stylistically it was like Europe with a bit more bite. "Won't Stop" was the album's first single, and the track was also released in an extended 12" remix version. The album was almost entirely hard-driving rockers, without the power ballads of many other bands of the genre. Original closer was "Do It", a tongue-in-cheek retro Louis Armstrong-style shuffle of the type David Lee Roth and David Johansen were experimenting with at the time.
After a decade and a half out of print, the album was re-released on CD by independent label MTM Classix in 2004. The re-release includes lyrics and liner notes, including a new thank-you section. The collection ends with two new bonus tracks. The first, "Hardcore Romance", is in a rawer style, sans the keyboards prevalent throughout the original '80s recording. The second, "Memories of You", makes up for the lack of balladry in the original track list, bringing back a subtler wash of keyboards and a subdued guitar.
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics by Jeff Limbo, music as indicated
- Side one
- "Won't Stop" (Pete Steiner) – 3:21
- "Hard as a Rock" (Steiner) – 3:47
- "I Can't Stand Losing You" (Steiner) – 4:50
- "Point of No Return" (Steiner, Hank Shermann) – 3:51
- "The Hunter" (Shermann, Steiner) – 4:16
- Side two
- "Summerlove" (Steiner) – 4:00
- "Farrah" (Shermann, Steiner) – 3:53
- "Get Up and Go" (Shermann) – 3:21
- "Limbo a Go Go" (Steiner) – 4:04
- "Do It" (Limbo) – 2:34
- 2004 CD edition bonus tracks
- "Hardcore Romance"
- "Memories of You"
Personnel[edit]
- Fate
- Jeff "Lox" Limbo – vocals
- Hank Shermann – guitar
- Pete Steiner – bass, keyboards
- Bob Lance – drums
- Additional musicians
- Kjetil Bjerkestrand – additional keyboards
- Svein Dag Hauge – additional guitar
- Egil Eldøen, Frank Ådahl, Lis Dam – backing vocals
- Production
- Svein Dag Hauge – producer
- Sverre Erik Henriksen – engineer
- Kim Petersen, Morten Henningsen – assistant engineers
References[edit]
- ^ "Fate – A Matter of Attitude review". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.