Badlands - Badlands (1989)

Badlands - Badlands (1989)

Tracklist front / back album covers

1. "High Wire"   3:45

2. "Dreams in the Dark"    3:29

3. "Jade's Song"   1:23

4. "Winter's Call"   5:35

5. "Dancing on the Edge"   3:27

6. "Streets Cry Freedom"   6:10

7. "Hard Driver"   4:50

8. "Rumblin' Train"   5:46

9. "Devil's Stomp"   4:54

10. "Seasons"   6:20

CD & Cassette Bonus Track

11. "Ball & Chain"   4:13

 

Badlands Band Members / Musicians

Ray Gillen – lead vocals, harmonica

Jake E. Lee – guitars, mandolin, sitar, keyboards

Greg Chaisson – bass

Eric Singer – drums

Taso Karras – tambourine, maracas

Bob Kinkel – keyboards programming

Paul O'Neill – producer

James A. Ball – engineer, mixing

Chuck Cavanaugh, Glen Marchese, Joe Henehan, John Mathias, Teddy Trewhella – additional engineering

Dave Parla, Deek Venarchick – assistant engineers

David Thoener – mixing

Jack Skinner – mastering at Europadisk, New York

Badlands is the debut studio album by the band of the same name. This album features Ray Gillen and Eric Singer, who previously played together in Black Sabbath. This album also features guitarist Jake E. Lee and bassist Greg Chaisson. Singer later played on Chaisson's solo album It's About Time. The album had sold 400,000 copies by 1990, according to Chaisson, in a Hit Parader interview from that year. It was also ranked No. 35 in Rolling Stone's list of 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time.

Badlands was an American heavy metal band founded by former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee, former Black Sabbath members Ray Gillen (vocals) and Eric Singer (drums), as well as former Surgical Steel bass player Greg Chaisson. After the first Badlands album, Eric Singer was replaced by Jeff Martin. The group lasted from 1988 to 1993 and released three albums. Badlands (1989) and Voodoo Highway (1991) were released before Gillen left and was replaced by singer John West from New York. Gillen's death in 1993 effectively ended any hopes of reuniting the project. The album Dusk (a demo recorded in 1992–93) was released in 1998 with the then-deceased Gillen on vocals.

Badlands Discography Full

1989 Badlands

1991 Voodoo Highway

1998 Dusk