Face the Truth (John Norum album)

Face the Truth
Studio album by John Norum
Released 1992 (Europe / Japan)
1994 (USA)
Recorded Total Accessing Recording, Redondo Beach, California
Genre Hard rock
Length 43:37 (Europe / Japan)
41:31 (USA)
Label CBS, Epic (Europe / Japan)
Shrapnel (USA)
Producer John Norum, Wyn Davis
John Norum chronology
Live in Stockholm
(1990)
Face the Truth
(1992)
Another Destination
(1995)

Face the Truth is the second solo album by John Norum, the guitarist in the Swedish hard rock band Europe. It was released in 1992.

Former Black Sabbath / Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes sang several of the songs on the album. The song "Opium Trail" is a cover version of the Thin Lizzy song. "We Will Be Strong" is a duet with Europe vocalist Joey Tempest, which is not included on the American edition of the album.

The Swedish special edition contains a biography for John Norum, written in Swedish.

Track listing

European, Japanese Pressings

  1. "Face the Truth" – 4:17 (Glenn Hughes, John Norum)
  2. "Night Buzz" – 3:22 (Norum, Henrik Hildén, Michelle Meldrum)
  3. "In Your Eyes" – 3:45 (Hughes, Norum, Peter Baltes)
  4. "Opium Trail" – 4:00 (Brian Downey, Phil Lynott, Scott Gorham)
  5. "We Will Be Strong" – 4:12 (Norum, Joey Tempest, Billy Haggerty)
  6. "Good Man Shining" – 3:04 (Hughes, Norum, Mats Attaque, Micke Höglund, Thomas Broman)
  7. "Time Will Find the Answer" – 5:02 (Hughes, Norum, Billy White)
  8. "Counting on Your Love" – 3:16 (Göran Edman, Hughes, Tempest, Norum, Peter Hermansson)
  9. "Endica" – 2:44 (Norum, Baltes)
  10. "Still the Night" – 3:58 (Hughes, Pat Thrall, Paul Delph)
  11. "Distant Voices" – 5:46 (Norum, Hughes, Baltes, White)

US Pressing

  1. "Distant Voices" – 5:46 (Norum, Hughes, Baltes, White)
  2. "Opium Trail" – 4:00 (Downey, Lynott, Gorham)
  3. "Night Buzz" – 3:22 (Norum, Hildén, Meldrum)
  4. "Good Man Shining" – 3:04 (Hughes, Norum, Attaque, Höglund, Broman)
  5. "Endica" – 2:44 (Norum, Baltes)
  6. "Face the Truth" – 4:17 (Hughes, Norum)
  7. "In Your Eyes" – 3:45 (Hughes, Norum, Baltes)
  8. "Time Will Find the Answer" – 5:02 (Hughes, Norum, White)
  9. "Counting on Your Love" – 3:16 (Edman, Hughes, Tempest, Norum, Hermansson)
  10. "Don't Believe a Word" (recorded live) – 3:13 (Lynott)
  11. "Free Birds in Flight" (recorded live) – 3:00 (Norum)

Personnel

Album credits

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