Linda Ronstadt - Mad Love (1980) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip

Mad Love is a Platinum certified, Grammy nominated 1980 Punk/New Wave album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard album chart - a record at the time and a first for any female artist - and quickly became Ronstadt's seventh consecutive million-selling Platinum album.
It contains versions of Elvis Costello's "Party Girl", "Girls Talk", and "Talking In The Dark" as well as Neil Young's "Look Out For My Love". Three songs from The Cretones' first album Thin Red Line were also featured.
Ronstadt scored Top 10 hits from the album in the US with "Hurt So Bad" and "How Do I Make You?". She was also nominated for yet another Grammy award in the Best Rock Vocal Performance Female category. Now 30 years since its release, this album has never been out of print.
(wikipedia)

Released in 1980, Mad Love featured Linda Ronstadt taking on new wave with mixed results. At this point, her albums with producer Peter Asher became routine and repetitive. This album's predecessor, Living in the U.S.A., hit the cutout bins, so a change was in order. While many may miss the customary Ronstadt here, most of Mad Love does indeed work. The insinuating "I Can't Let Go" and the playful "How Do I Make You" do help Ronstadt attain a certain cuteness and freshness. The biggest hit, the cover of Little Anthony & the Imperials' "Hurts So Bad," has a great vocal and is made even better by Danny Kortchmar's emotive guitar solos. While the originals and style of guitarist Mark Goldenberg did predominate, Mad Love is mostly known for its three Elvis Costello covers. Although the often pitch-perfect Ronstadt is more than antithetical to Costello's angst, she more than connects with "Party Girl." Costello's "Talking in the Dark" closes the album on an oddly sweet note. The strange thing about Mad Love is that it did include a lot of players from Ronstadt's previous albums. Kortchmar, Russ Kunkel, Andrew Gold, and Nicolette Larson's great backing vocals all appear here. For the most part, Mad Love stood the test of time and is certainly different from the Ronstadt albums that preceded and followed it.
( Jason Elias - AllMusic Guide)

Track Listing:

A1. Mad Love
A2. Party Girl
A3. How Do I Make You
A4. I Can't Let Go
A5. Hurt So Bad
B1. Look Out for My Love
B2. Cost of Love
B3. Justine
B4. Girls Talk
B5. Talking in the Dark