Power Supply (album)

Power Supply

Studio album by Budgie

Released

10 October 1980

Genre

Hard rock, heavy metal

Length

37:18

Budgie chronology

Impeckable
(1978)

Power Supply
(1980)

Nightflight
(1981)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Power Supply is Budgie's eighth studio album, released in October 1980 on Active Records, a sublabel of RCA Records (which was the distributor of A&M Records - Budgie's previous label - at the time).

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Burke Shelley and John Thomas, except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Forearm Smash"	5:40
2.	"Hellbender" (Shelley, Thomas, Steve Williams)	3:25
3.	"Heavy Revolution"	4:28
4.	"Gunslinger"	5:03

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"Power Supply"	3:41
6.	"Secrets in My Head"	3:58
7.	"Time to Remember"	5:27
8.	"Crime Against the World"	5:36

1993 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
9.	"Wild Fire" (Shelley, Williams, Thomas)	5:13
10.	"High School Girls" (Shelley)	3:39
11.	"Panzer Division Destroyed"	5:55
12.	"Lies of Jim (The E-Type Lover)" (Shelley)	4:45

These tracks were originally released as the If Swallowed Do Not Induce Vomiting EP.

2012 remaster bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
9.	"Crime Against the World" (single edit)	3:27
10.	"Gunslinger" (live, 1981)	4:55
11.	"Crime Against the World" (live, 1981)	4:52

Personnel

Burke Shelley - vocals, bass
John Thomas - guitar
Steve Williams - drums

References

↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Budgie: Power Supply" at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 November 2011.

Budgie

Burke Shelley Steve Williams Craig Goldy Tony Bourge Ray Phillips Pete Boot Rob Kendrick John "Big" Thomas Duncan Mackay Jim Simpson Robert "Congo" Jones Andy Hart Simon Lees

Studio albums	Budgie Squawk Never Turn Your Back on a Friend In for the Kill! Bandolier If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules Impeckable Power Supply Nightflight Deliver Us from Evil You're All Living in Cuckooland

Live albums	Heavier Than Air – Rarest Eggs We Came, We Saw... Life in San Antonio Radio Sessions 1974 & 1978 The BBC Recordings

Compilations	Best of Budgie (1975) Best of Budgie (1981) An Ecstasy of Fumbling – The Definitive Anthology Best of Budgie (1997) The Last Stage

Miscellaneous	The Extreem – From Out of the Sky 6 Ton Budgie Budgie and Beyond Ornithology v.1 Booty's B – Sides The Battle of My Mind

EPs & Singles	"Crash Course in Brain Surgery"/"Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman" "Whiskey River"/"Guts" "Whiskey River"/"Stranded" "Zoom Club" (Edit)/"Wondering What Everyone Knows" "I Ain't No Mountain"/"Honey" "Smile Boy Smile"/"All at Sea" If Swallowed Do Not Induce Vomiting "Crime Against the World"/"Hellbender" "Keeping a Rendezvous"/"Apparatus" "I Turned to Stone (Part 1)"/"I Turned to Stone (Part 2)" "Bored with Russia"/"Don't Cry"

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