Burning Bridges (Naked Eyes album)

Burning Bridges
Studio album by Naked Eyes
Released March 1983
Recorded 1982-83
Genre Synthpop
Length 46 min.?
Label EMI
EMI America Records
(North America)
Producer Tony Mansfield
Naked Eyes chronology
Burning Bridges
(1983)		 Fuel for the Fire
(1984)
North America/Japan cover
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Allmusic [1]

Burning Bridges was Naked Eyes' 1983 debut album. The album was released in the United States and Canada as Naked Eyes with two tracks demoted to B-sides. The track "Always Something There to Remind Me" was released as a single and reached No. 59 in the United Kingdom chart and US Top 10 in July 1983.

Original UK release

Side one
  1. "Voices in My Head"
  2. "I Could Show You How"
  3. "A Very Hard Act to Follow"
  4. "Always Something There to Remind Me" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
  5. "Fortune and Fame"
  6. "Could Be"
Side two
  1. "Burning Bridges"
  2. "Emotion in Motion"
  3. "Low Life"
  4. "The Time Is Now"
  5. "When the Lights Go Out"
  6. "Promises, Promises"

US release

The North American release[2] of Burning Bridges was issued in April 1983, retitled as Naked Eyes and released with an alternate cover.

Side one
  1. "Always Something There to Remind Me" 3:40
  2. "Fortune and Fame" 3:18
  3. "When the Lights Go Out" 3:00
  4. "Voices in My Head" 3:47
  5. "Low Life" 3:57
Side two
  1. "Promises, Promises" 3:45
  2. "I Could Show You How" 3:28
  3. "Emotion in Motion" 4:42
  4. "Burning Bridges" 3:30
  5. "Could Be" 2:47

(The two deleted songs, "The Time Is Now" and "A Very Hard Act to Follow" were issued in the US as the b-sides of "Always Something There to Remind Me" and "Promises, Promises.")

References

  1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r45320
  2. ^ Naked Eyes Album EMI America ST-17089