Track Listing
1. Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not
2. Johnny Hit and Run Paulene
3. Soul Kitchen
4. Nausea
5. Sugarlight
6. Los Angeles
7. Sex and Dying in High Society
8. Unheard Music, The
9. World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss, The
10. Once Over Twice, The
11. We're Desperate
12. Adult Books
13. Universal Corner
14. I'm Coming Over
15. It's Who You Know
16. In This House That I Call Home
17. Some Other Time
18. White Girl
19. Beyond and Back
20. Back 2 the Base
21. When Our Love Passed Out on the Couch
22. Year 1
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Ray Manzarek | | Producer: | Ray Manzarek | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
X: John Doe (vocals, bass); Exene Cervenka (vocals); Billy Zoom (guitar); DJ Bonebrake (drums).
Additional personnel: Ray Manzarek (keyboards).
Engineers include: Rick Perotta.
LOS ANGELES was recorded at Golden Sound Studios, Hollywood, California in January 1980. WILD GIFT was recorded at Clover Recorders and Golden Sound Studio, Hollywood, California in March 1981.
2 LPs on 1 CD.
X came roaring out of the Los Angeles punk scene of the late '70s. LOS ANGELES and WILD GIFT delivered a one-two punch in 1980 and '81. Exene Cervenka and John Doe sang poetically barbed odes that combined social commentary, personal betrayal, anger and a glimmer of hope. Powered by Billy Zoom's rockabilly-solid guitar onslaught, the sound of X was fast, furious and in-your-face. The few guitar solos here eschew straying too far from the trunk of the song.
Cervenka and Doe's entwined vocals are packed with the tension that comes from the juxtaposed timbres of their extremely contrasting voices and harmonic intervals that offer little traditional resolution. Both albums were produced by Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek and the band revisits one song from the Doors back catalog, "Soul Kitchen." These albums have not dated at all, something that can't be said for the many of X's less talented late '70s/early'80s contemporaries.
Editorial Reviews
Rolling Stone ranked #24 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The Eighties survey. (November 1989)
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