Released October 1986 Friday the 13th(1981) Enemy Within(1986) Genres Rock, Pop | Recorded 1982 - 1985 Enemy Within(1986) Cafe Days(1990) Release date October 1986 Label New Rose | |
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Studio VariousMediasoundIntergalactic StudiosSkyline Studios Similar Chris Spedding, Click Clack, The Very Best of Chris Spe | ||
Chris spedding enemy within
Enemy Within is the seventh solo studio album by English singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Spedding. The album was originally released in October 1986, on the label New Rose Records in France, and in Germany on Date Records. The album was recorded over a period of three years starting in 1982, at three different recording studios. The album is generally regarded as the culmination of the smoother, more adult-oriented sound of Spedding's later work. It was the six-year follow-up to his 1980 album I'm Not Like Everybody Else. The album features contributions from Tom Finn, Anton Fig, Jimmy Zoppi, David Van Tieghem, and Keith Lentin. The album was his last recording of original material for four years, until he released Cafe Days, in 1990.
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When the album was released in late 1986, it received mixed reviews, and went largely unnoticed by the public, being a commercial disappointment, and even missed the album charts worldwide, alike all of his solo albums (to date).
It was later picked up for release by Repertoire Records in 2001, featuring rare bonus content. With the original album digitally remastered from the original 1/2" mix tapes; the bonus content consists of one outtake, and one live track.
Retrospective review
Enemy Within received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Mike DeGagne rated the album two and a half stars out of five. He praised the album the album for containing "enough fragments of mild rockabilly, pop, and traditional rock & roll." They also added that that made him sound "an awful lot like Mark Knopfler". However, they commented that "Spedding fails to unleash any real surprises"
Track listing
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
Songs
1Hologram3:22
2Love’s Made a Fool of You4:08
3Signs of Love2:22