Holding Back the River

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Holding Back the River
Holding Back the River cover
Studio album by Wet Wet Wet
Released October 30, 1989 (UK)
Recorded Unknown
Genre Pop
Label Mercury
Wet Wet Wet chronology
The Memphis Sessions
(1988)
Holding Back the River
(1989)
Wet Wet Wet: Live
(1990)

Holding Back the River is the third studio album by Wet Wet Wet. It was released on October 30, 1989. Its offspring singles were "Sweet Surrender", "Broke Away", "Hold Back the River" and "Stay With Me Heartache (Can't Stand the Night)". The album reached #2 in the charts. Some CD pressings of this album include an unlisted 10th track.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks by Clark/Cunningham/Mitchell/Pellow unless otherwise stated.

  1. "Sweet Surrender"
  2. "Stay With Me Heartache (Can't Stand the Night)"
  3. "Blue for You" (orchestral arrangements by Anne Dudley)
  4. "Broke Away"
  5. "You've Had It"
  6. "I Wish"
  7. "Keys to Your Heart"
  8. "Maggie May" (Quittenton, Stewart)
  9. "Hold Back the River"