Mean Machine (Lucifer's Friend album)

Mean Machine
Studio album by Lucifer's Friend
Released 1981
Recorded 1981
Genre Heavy metal
Length 39:40
Label Elektra (in the US)
Vertigo Records (in Europe)
Producer Lucifer's Friend
Lucifer's Friend chronology

Sneak Me In
(1980)		 Mean Machine
(1981)		 Sumo Grip
(1994)
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Mean Machine is the eighth album by Lucifer's Friend. On this album the band returns to their heavy metal roots, albeit with less of the Hammond organ found on the first album. However, by this time the band had lost its core following years ago and it was too late to recover. Lucifer's Friend lasted a year after the album's release and then finally broke up. John Lawton would join the hard rock bands, Rebel and ZAR. Lucifer's Friend would reunite in 1993 and would release Sumo Grip in 1994 and would breakup for the final time in 1996.

Hey Driver

"Hey Driver" has been declared as the best song of the band's career according to a vote held on Lucifer's Friend's official Facebook page.

Track listing

Side One
No. Title Length
1. "One Way Street to Heartbreak"   4:35
2. "Hey Driver"   4:11
3. "Fire and Rain"   4:40
4. "Mean Machine"   1:08
5. "Cool Hand Killer"   4:58
Side Two
No. Title Length
6. "Action"   4:00
7. "Born to the City"   4:12
8. "One Night Sensation"   4:44
9. "Let Me Down Slow"   3:37
10. "Bye Bye Sadie"   3:18

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