Released June 1987 Label Geffen Records | Length 47:00 Release date June 1987 | |
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Recorded Cherokee Studios, The Village Recorder, Image Recording Studios and Baby'O Recorders, Los Angeles, California Similar Steve Jones albums, Rock music albums | ||
Mercy steve jones
Mercy is a 1987 hard rock album by Steve Jones. It was the first solo album from Jones, a former member of the Sex Pistols. The single "Mercy" was used in a Miami Vice episode called "Stone's War" and was also featured on the Miami Vice II soundtrack album. The song "With You or Without You" was used in, and is on the soundtrack for, Jonathan Demme's 1986 film Something Wild. "Raining in My Heart" was originally recorded as "When Dreaming Fails", a 1985 demo with Iggy Pop which they recorded at Olivier Ferrand's home studio in Hancock Park, Los Angeles. Jones added new lyrics.
Contents
Track listing
All songs by Steve Jones, except where indicated
- "Mercy" – 5:04
- "Give It Up" – 4:55
- "That's Enough" – 4:05
- "Raining in My Heart" – 5:33
- "With You or Without You" – 4:29
- "Pleasure and Pain" – 4:51
- "Pretty Baby" – 6:01
- "Drugs Suck" – 4:30
- "Through the Night" – 4:43
- "Love Letters" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 2:57
Personnel
For his solo debut, Jones chose a spare arrangement and played most instruments himself. He partners with just two drummers and a keyboardist as he "gamely sing-speaks his way through".
Production
Reception
Critic Ira Robbins notes that original punk rocker Jones "caught followers off guard" with this release. Unexpectedly, the album "allows low-key, sentimental moments – like the title track, the hopelessly sappy "Love Letters" and others – to mingle with the rock numbers".
Songs
1Give It Up
2That's Enough
3Raining in My Heart