Sad Cafe - Misplaced Ideals (North American version) (1978)

Sad Cafe - Misplaced Ideals (1978)

Tracklist front / back album covers

1. "Restless"   4:36

2. "Here Come the Clowns"   4:00

3. "Run Home Girl"   4:57

4. "Black Rose"   4:36

5. "I Believe (Love Will Survive)"   4:29

6. "Babylon"   3:40

7. "Shellshock"   3:12

8. "Hungry Eyes"   5:26

9. "Feel Like Dying"   4:09

10. "On With the Show"   5:15

Total length:   44:20

2011 download bonus tracks

11. "Let Love Speak for Itself"   6:09

12. "Mario"   4:51

13. "No Place to Go"   3:44

14. "Relax"   3:19

This album was only released in the US and Canada and is a compilation of songs from Sad Café's first two studio albums, Fanx Ta-ra and Misplaced Ideals, neither of which were released there. It was released in November 1978 by A&M Records. "Run Home Girl" and "Feel Like Dying" were released as singles, with the former reaching number 71 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979. The album also charted at number 94 on the Billboard 200. "Run Home Girl" is also a shorter, edited version of the original UK release.

The album was reissued on CD in 2008 by Renaissance Records and the 2011 album download included 4 bonus tracks, which were the four songs from the original UK release of the album not included on this compilation.

Reviewing this LP, Robert Christgau wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981): "In which the decade's most paradoxical, characteristic, and disgusting pop-music synthesis—combining hard rock's compulsive riff energy with MOR's smooth determination to displease no one—is achieved without recourse to jazz rhythms or semiclassical decoration. Misplaced ideals my ass—they threw them down the deepest hole they could find."