The Firm - Mean Business (1986)
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Atlantic, 7 81628-2 | Japan For USA | ~ 251 or 94 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 27 Mb
Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Classic Rock
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Atlantic, 7 81628-2 | Japan For USA | ~ 251 or 94 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 27 Mb
Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Classic Rock
Mean Business is the second and final studio album by The Firm, released by Atlantic Records on 3 February 1986. Repeating the same bluesy formula as on the first album, The Firm (1985), Mean Business did not achieve the same commercial success.
One of the album's tracks, "Live in Peace", was first recorded on Paul Rodgers' first solo album in 1983, Cut Loose. The versions differ in that Chris Slade played the drums slower than on the original version, apart from the ending, and Jimmy Page added a bluesy guitar solo at the end of the song.
The album's title was intended to have a double meaning: that the music business is a hard one, and that the band was serious about its music ("The Firm mean business"). However, perhaps due to the lukewarm-at-best critical and financial success which the band met, Page and Rodgers decided to disband The Firm within months of this album's release.
The album peaked at #22 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.[citation needed] and at #46 on the UK Albums Chart. The single "All the King's Horses" spent four weeks at the top of Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
"Fortune Hunter" was originally co-written by Page and Chris Squire for the aborted XYZ project in 1981. Squire was not credited on The Firm's version and later said he would have sued for royalties if the album had been a hit, but since it failed he dropped the idea because he saw it as inappropriate at a time when he was receiving six-figure yearly income from the sales of 90125…~ wiki
The Firm - Mean Business (1986):
Tracklist:
01. Fortune Hunter 5:02
02. Cadillac 5:57
03. All The Kings Horses 3:19
04. Live In Peace 5:06
05. Tear Down The Walls 4:46
06. Dreaming 6:03
07. Free To Live 4:15
08. Spirit Of Love 5:08
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EAC extraction logfile from 25. August 2018, 10:43
The Firm / Mean Business (7 81628-2)
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