Kings of the Wild Frontier

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Kings of the Wild Frontier
Kings of the Wild Frontier cover
Studio album by Adam & the Ants
Released 1980
Recorded Rockfield Studios, 1980
Genre Antmusic
Length 47:21
Label Epic Records
Producer(s) Chris Hughes
Professional reviews
Adam & the Ants chronology
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(1979)		 Kings of the Wild Frontier
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(1981)


Kings of the Wild Frontier is a New Wave-punk album by Adam & the Ants, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). This album introduced the new Burundi Drum sound. After having his previous backing band wooed away by producer Malcolm McLaren, who used them to form Bow Wow Wow, Adam Ant recorded Kings of the Wild Frontier with guitarist Marco Pirroni his new writing partner. In spite of the difficulties with the recording, Kings of the Wild Frontier has become acknowledged as an inspiritational and unique sounding album, introducing two drummers, with Duanne Eddy sounding guitar rifts. Unique in style and sound, it is hard to classify it as anything but Antmusic though some consider it fringe pop-oriented post punk rock.

The album spawned three hit singles: "Kings Of The Wild Frontier" (7/80 reached # 2 in 2/81), "Dog Eat Dog" (10/81 reached # 4 in 10/81) and "Antmusic" (12/80 reached #2 in 1/81). In addition, Antmusic reached No. 1 in Australia for several weeks.[1] The album was remastered and reissued in 2004 with several bonus tracks.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni.

  1. "Dog Eat Dog" – 3:11
  2. "Antmusic" – 3:37
  3. "Feed Me to the Lions" – 3:03
  4. "Los Rancheros" – 3:30
  5. "Ants Invasion" – 3:19
  6. "Killer in the Home" – 4:22
  7. "Kings of the Wild Frontier" – 3:56
  8. "The Magnificent Five" – 3:07
  9. "Don't Be Square (Be There)" – 3:32
  10. "Jolly Roger" – 2:11
  11. "Making History" – 2:59
  12. "The Human Beings" – 4:32

Kings of the Wild Frontier was remastered and reissued in 2004 with six bonus tracks:

  1. "Antmusic (Alternative Mix)" – 3:43
  2. "Antmusic (Demo)" – 3:28
  3. "Feed Me To The Lions (Demo)" – 3:02
  4. "The Human Beings (Demo)" – 2:30
  5. "S.E.X. (Demo)" – 3:57
  6. "Omelette From Outerspace (Demo)" – 3:06

The U.S. release has a slightly different tracklisting, removing "Making History", while adding two earlier Ant written songs, "Press Darlings" (track 5), and "Physical (You're So)" (track 12) – both of which had appeared as b-sides on UK singles.

[edit] Personnel

  • Adam Ant – Vocals
  • Marco Pirroni – Guitar
  • Kevin Mooney – Bass
  • Merrick – Drums
  • Terry Lee Miall – Drums
  • Chris Hughes – Producer

Note - Merrick is the name Chris Hughes adopted as an Ant.

[edit] Chart positions

UK album chart

  • 1980 No 1 (66 weeks)

UK Singles chart

  • 1980 Kings of the Wild Frontier No 48
  • 1980 Dog Eat Dog No 4
  • 1980 "Antmusic" No 2
  • 1981 Kings of the Wild Frontier No 2

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album

  • 1981 Pop Albums No. 44

Billboard (North America) - singles

  • 1981 Dog Eat Dog Club Play Singles No. 19
  • 1981 Antmusic Mainstream Rock No. 14
  • 1981 Dog Eat Dog Mainstream Rock No. 15
  • 1981 Physical (You're So) Mainstream Rock No. 19
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