Worlds Apart (Saga album)

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Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart cover
Studio album by Saga
Released October 1981
Genre Progressive rock
Length 43:19
Label Portrait Records
Professional reviews
Saga chronology
Silent Knight
(1980)		 Worlds Apart
(1981)		 Heads or Tales
(1983)
This article is about the album by Saga. For other uses, see Worlds Apart.

Worlds Apart is the fourth studio album by the Canadian progressive rock band Saga and was originally released in 1981. The album has been released with several different covers. The album was produced by famous producer Rupert Hine, who took the band in a new direction by drawing out a more vibrant and diverse sound as well as adding other quirky affect that became Hine's signature style in the albums he produced over the years. Perhaps his greatest contribution both to the album and to the band since that time was in coaching lead singer Michael Sadler on how to sing. Sadler stated in the band's video DVD Silhouette that Hine told him to stop "singing like a choir boy" and actually had him climb up to the roof of a barn located on the farm in England where the recording was done in order to get the proper passion out of Sadler for the song "Wind Him Up". Sadler's vocal style was noticeably different on Worlds Apart than on the first three Saga albums--a style that he kept in successive performances with the band.

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[edit] Success

Widely considered Saga's best album (and certainly their most commercially successful), the album has become the band's most recognizable work to date. The first song on the album, "On the Loose" was a single that hit #3 on worldwide Billboard charts in 1981, landing Saga their best performance on the charts. The single was helped with a well-made music video which appeared on MTV during the station's inaugural year on the air. Videos were also made for the singles "Wind Him Up", another successful chart-riser and "Amnesia". The success of the album was also largely credited to an expanded tour roster which saw the band enter new territories and venues, particularly in the United States, to expand their musical presence.

[edit] The Chapters

Two of the songs, "No Regrets (Chapter 5)" and "No Stranger (Chapter 8)" were part of a series of originally eight (but later sixteen) songs that Saga included in their first four albums called "The Chapters", which told the story of a young Albert Einstein. The two songs on Worlds Apart completed the original set of eight. These songs were later included on The Chapters album that the band recorded in 2005.

[edit] Worlds Apart Revisited

In 2007, Saga released Worlds Apart Revisited, a live album in a 2-CD package that included all the songs from the original Worlds Apart album recorded as they were played in a recent concert by the band along with other popular works that the band played for fans in their set.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "On The Loose" (Michael Sadler, Saga) – 4:12
  2. "Wind Him Up" (Jim Crichton, Saga) – 4:03
  3. "Amnesia" (Sadler, Saga) – 5:44
  4. "Framed" (Sadler, Saga) – 3:27
  5. "Time's Up" (J. Crichton, Saga) – 5:36
  6. "The Interview" (J. Crichton, Sadler) – 3:48
  7. "No Regrets (Chapter 5)" (J. Crichton, Sadler)– 4:34
  8. "Conversations" (J. Crichton, Sadler, Saga) – 4:45
  9. "No Stranger (Chapter 8)" (J. Crichton, Sadler) – 7:05

[edit] Personnel

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