Product Description

Released 10 years after Adams's debut record, WAKING UP THENEIGHBORS continues in the hard-rocking tradition of its predecessors, but there are some notable changes. Here, Robert"Mutt" Lange, producer of AC/DC and guiding hand behind a number of other successful hard rock acts, is now Adam's fulltime songwriting partner instead of Jim Vallance, who had co-written all of Adams's early hits. Many of the latter had atouch of heartland melancholy, but these songs are more concerned with the human heart. The love song "Everything I Do (I Do it for You)", featured in the movie ROBIN HOOD, was anenormous hit.
Lange's heavy-metal influence is evident here, with Adams serving up a fine approximation of an AC/DC song on "Hey Honey--I'm Packing You In", while "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven" carries with it the unmistakable flavour of Def Leppard. But in general the emphasis, as always, is on hook-heavy rockers with catchy choruses like "Can't Stop This Thing We Started". Whereas on earlier records Adams had spiced up his songs with traces of social consciousness, this set is back squarely in love-and-lust territory.

Track Listing

1. Is Your Mama Gonna Miss Ya?
2. Hey Honey - I'm Packin' You In
3. Can't Stop This Thing We Started
4. Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven
5. Not Guilty
6. Vanishing
7. House Arrest
8. Do I Have To Say The Words?
9. There Will Never Be Another Tonight
10. All I Want Is You
11. Depend On Me
12. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
13. If You Wanna Leave Me (Can I Come Too?)
14. Touch The Hand
15. Don't Drop That Bomb On Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5676 in Music
• Published on: 1991
• Released on: 1991-09-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 75 minutes

Customer Reviews

Waking up the Neighbours
'Waking Up the Neighbours' is the excellent album from Bryan Adams that first turned me onto his music. It has a great rock sound and whenever I listen to this album it takes me right back to my childhood. Due to being produced by Robert 'Mutt' Lange this album has a feel very reminiscent of Def leppard from the same time (also produced by Mutt) with similar backing vocals and guitar sound, no bad thing though. There are plenty of stand out tracks, from the softer 'Can't stop this thing we've started' to slightly rockier 'touch the hand', and of course the now anthemic (and slightly overplayed) '(Everything I do) I do it for you'. But all the tracks on this album sit together very well and provide a great overall sound. For a first try of Bryan Adams' albums you can't go far wrong in starting here and then once you're hooked explore his other top albums. At a great price on amazon (2.98) at time of writing, you can't really go wrong in giving this a try.

Wakin up the neighbours
This album was my introduction to the music of Canadian rocker Bryan Adams. I purchased it following the huge success of Everything I Do. Initially I was disappointed, for I had wanted more of the same - that is, I expected to find a CD full of ballads. There were indeed a few (such as the emotional Do I Have to Say the Words, the uplifting Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven and the reflective Vanishing) but on the whole, this album (already Adams' sixth, I was surprised to find out later) couldn't have been more different from what I was expecting.

Happily, the surprise turned out to be a pleasant one. Only a couple of plays later, I was humming (and even dancing!) along to the fast, loud and furious rhythms of such tracks as Not Guilty, House Arrest and Can't Stop this Thing we Started. There is not one filler on this CD - Adams has achieved the rare feat of releasing a meaty album, with every track a potential single.

On the strength of this album, I bought Adams' entire back catalogue and have collected future releases ever since. For me though, Waking Up the Neighbours remains to be his best effort and one that is never far away from my music player. I don't know about my neighbours, but it certainly woke me up!

Patchy but still the last great album he recorded in my opinion
This isn't up there with Reckless and Into The Fire but it does have some classics and is the last real 'guitar' album before Everything I Do I Do It For You (the massive single from this very album) launched Bryan into the pop mainstream. From then on it was saccharin pop and meaningless chart fodder from the extremely talented Adams. Still, we have the memories.