Feel the Heat (album)

Feel The Heat
Studio album by The Radiators
Released 1980[1]
Genre Pop/Rock[2]
Label Warner Bros. Records[1]
Producer Charles Fisher, The Radiators[1]

Feel The Heat is a 1980 album by The Radiators. It charted at #22 on the Australian Albums Chart.[3][4] With it, they became the first Australian band to have advance/pre-sales on a début album - 6,000 copies had been shifted before its release.[5] It was eventually classified Platinum.[3]

The album spawned the singles "Comin' Home/Numbers", which charted at #33 on the Australian Singles Chart,[3][4] "Gimme Head/Fess's Song", which made #9 in 2009 after being covered by The Cut[6] and "Hit And Run/Lonely", which didn't chart.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Summer Holiday"    
2. "All of Your Love"    
3. "Reason"    
4. "Comin' Home"    
5. "Numbers"    
6. "(I Wish I Was) 17"    
7. "Nancy Can't Dance"    
8. "Hit and Run"    
9. "It's Easy"    
10. "Radiation"    
11. "Fess' Song"    
12. "Gimme Head"    

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Use in popular culture

The Cut's version of Gimme Head was used in Ministry of Sound's Sessions Five.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Feel The Heat (booklet). The Radiators. Warner Bros. Records. 1980.
  2. "Feel the Heat - The Radiators | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  3. 1 2 3 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN 0646119176. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.
  4. 1 2 Ryan (bulion), Gary (8 April 2012). "Albums Pre 1989 Part 2 – Radiators". Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  5. Mark Gibson (2007-02-18). "The Radiators — Australian Music History". Australianmusichistory.com. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  6. "3 DECADES OF RADIATION!". The Radiators. 1982-07-29. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  7. Sessions Five (booklet). Various Artists. Ministry of Sound. 2008.
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