Fresh Blood

This article is about the Steve Swindells album. For the Eels song, see Fresh Blood (song). For the Supernatural episode, see Fresh Blood (Supernatural).
Fresh Blood
Studio album by Steve Swindells
Released October 1980
Recorded Sawmills Studio, Cornwall, UK, 1980
Genre Rock
Label Atco Records
Producer Steve Swindells
Steve Swindells chronology

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Fresh Blood is a 1980 album by the English singer/songwriter Steve Swindells. Swindells is backed on this album by guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton and drummer Simon King, both from Hawkwind, and bassist Nic Potter from Van der Graaf Generator.

Singles released from this album were:

"Shot Down in the Night" had originally been written for Hawkwind while Swindells was in the band in 1979. Hawkwind released their own live version of the track as a single and on the 1980 album Live Seventy Nine.

The Who's lead vocalist Roger Daltrey covered two tracks from this album, "Bitter and Twisted" on the 1980 soundtrack to the film McVicar, and "Don't Wait on the Stairs" on his 1984 album Parting Should Be Painless.

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Track listing

All titles written by Steve Swindells

Side 1

  1. "Turn It On, Turn It Off" – 3:12
  2. "Fresh Blood" – 3:36
  3. "I Feel Alive" – 3:47
  4. "Low Life Joe" – 4:16
  5. "Bitter and Twisted" – 3:50

Side 2

  1. "Don't Wait on the Stairs" – 3:22
  2. "Is It Over Now?" – 4:08
  3. "Down on Love Street" – 5:37
  4. "Figures of Authority" – 5:12
  5. "Shot Down in the Night" – 5:12


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