The Big Prize

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The Big Prize
Studio album by Honeymoon Suite
Released Feb. 14, 1986
Recorded The Boogie Hotel, Long Island, NY & Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver, BC
Genre Rock
Label WEA Canada
Producer(s) Bruce Fairbairn
Professional reviews
Honeymoon Suite chronology
Honeymoon Suite
(1984)		 The Big Prize
(1986)		 Racing After Midnight
(1988)


The Big Prize is the second album by Honeymoon Suite released in early 1986. It featured four hit singles, including "Bad Attitude" which was notably featured in a sequence in the final episode of Miami Vice three years later.

The album cover features a newly-married couple having their picture taken by some tourists at Niagara Falls, Honeymoon Suite's hometown. The photo was taken on the Canadian-side of the Falls.

Following the release of this album, the band won the Juno Award for "Group of the Year" and was also nominated for "Album of the Year" in 1986.

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[edit] Background and writing

Following the success of their debut album and a subsquent 2-year tour, Honeymoon Suite wrote much of their next album on the road. The Big Prize was produced by Bruce Fairbairn with assistance from fellow Canadian Bob Rock and featured the trademark 80s sound of rock guitars interlaced with keyboards.

The first single "Bad Attitude" was written by guitarist Derry Grehan, and according to singer Johnnie Dee "Derry was playing this lick for a long time and eventually wrote this song around it. The chorus wouldn't come together for us until Bruce Fairbairn helped us out. The lyrics kinda summed up our feelings at the time.".

The third single was the power ballad "What Does It Take" and was originally written on a Fostex recorder at a gig in Sarnia, Ontario. The song was added to the soundtrack for the movie One Crazy Summer.

[edit] Track Listing

  1. "Bad Attitude" (Derry Grehan) - 5:28
  2. "Feel It Again" (Ray Coburn) - 4:37
  3. "Lost and Found" (Coburn) - 4:22
  4. "What Does It Take" (Grehan) - 4:13
  5. "One By One" (Grehan) - 3:42
  6. "Wounded" (Johnnie Dee) - 4:36
  7. "Words in the Wind" (Grehan) - 4:35
  8. "All Along You Knew" (Grehan) - 4:19
  9. "Once the Feeling" (Grehan) - 4:32
  10. "Take My Hand" (Grehan) - 3:41

[edit] Singles

The following singles were released from the album, with the highest charting positions listed.

# Title Release Date CAN Hot 100
1. "Bad Attitude" Dec. 17, 1985 -
2. "Feel It Again" Jan. 24, 1986 16 34
3. "What Does It Take" June 3, 1986 28 52
4. "All Along You Knew" 1986 -

[edit] Album credits

[edit] Personnel

  • Johnnie Dee - lead vocals
  • Derry Grehan - guitars, vocals
  • Ray Coburn - keyboards
  • Gary Lalonde - bass
  • Dave Betts - drums
  • Ian Anderson - flute on "All Along You Knew"
  • Mickey Curry - additional percussion
  • Chris Taylor - additional percussion

[edit] Production

[edit] References

  • Liner notes from Honeymoon Suite:The Singles.
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