Excess All Areas (Shy album)

Excess All Areas is the third album by the Birmingham, England band Shy.[2] Recorded in the Netherlands with producer Neil Kernon, the album was published in 1987 on RCA/BMG.[3] The album featured Shy's biggest hit, "Break Down The Walls", co-written with Don Dokken and reached Britain's top 75, with Metal Hammer magazine being appreciative.

Excess All Areas
Studio album by
Shy
Released1 January 1987 (1987-01-01)
StudioSoundpush Studios, Blaricum, Netherlands,
Red Bus Studios, London, UK
GenreGlam metal, hard rock
Length41:16
LabelRCA/BMG
ProducerNeil Kernon
Shy chronology
Brave the Storm
(1985)		 Excess All Areas
(1987)		 Misspent Youth
(1990)
Singles from Excess All Areas
  1. "Break Down the Walls"
    Released: 1987
  2. "Young Heart"
    Released: 1987
  3. "Just Love Me"
    Released: 1988
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal4/10[1]

Track listing
Side one
  1. "Emergency" (Michael Bolton, Duane Hitchings) - 3:35[4]
  2. "Can't Fight the Nights" (Michael Jay, Steve Harris, Tony Mills) - 3:59
  3. "Young Heart" (Harris, Hitchings, Mills) - 3:55
  4. "Just Love Me" (John Parker, Mills) - 3:58
  5. "Break Down the Walls" (Don Dokken, Alan Kelly, Neil Kernon, Shy) - 5:04[5]
Side two
  1. "Under Fire" (Harris, Mills, Kelly) - 4:14
  2. "Devil Woman" (Terry Britten, Christine Holmes) - 3:32 (Cliff Richard cover)
  3. "Talk to Me" (Harris, Kelly, Paddy McKenna) - 3:51
  4. "When the Love Is Over" (Jay, Harris, Mills) - 4:22
  5. "Telephone" (Harris, Kelly) - 4:14

Personnel
Shy
  • Tony Mills – vocals
  • Steve Harris – guitar
  • Roy Stephen Davis – bass
  • Alan Kelly – drums
  • Paddy McKenna – keyboards
Production
  • Neil Kernon - producer, engineer, mixing
  • Frank Koppelman, John Smit, Matt Budd - engineers
  • John Parker - associate producer on track 4

References
  1. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 323. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  2. Colin Larkin (2006), The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 7 (4 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 439, ISBN 0195313739, retrieved 27 January 2013
  3. Joel Whitburn, ed. (2007), The Billboard Albums: Includes Every Album That Made the Billboard 200 Chart (6 ed.), Record Research Incorporated, p. 947, ISBN 0898201667, retrieved 27 January 2013
  4. Urban "Wally" Wallstrom (23 March 2007), "Duane Hitchings, The Man Behind the Hits", RockUnited.com, retrieved 18 January 2013
  5. Schwann Compact Disc Catalog, 2, Schwann Publications, 1987, p. 28, retrieved 27 January 2013
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