East West
1995
P.H.U.Q.
About This Album
Though it had featured a stunning collection of would-be hits and almost-classic hard rock anthems, the Wildhearts' first full-length album Earth vs. the Wildhearts had suffered from a terribly lifeless production job which somehow managed to douse most of the band's volatile spark. So it was with great relief that listeners finally got to enjoy all the creative, daring, explosive power and barely reigned-in lunacy of the band's incredible live performances with the release of their excellent 1995 sophomore effort P.H.U.Q. Strangely, however, the Wildhearts employed no less than two competent producers in the making of the album. With Mark Dodson (Anthrax, Ugly Kid Joe) overseeing seven tracks and Simon Efemey (Paradise Lost) working on the remaining five, the fact that the band somehow managed to construct such a seamless and satisfying whole from such a disjointed process is nothing short of a miracle. Even by main man Ginger's production line standards, tracks like "Just in Lust," "Nita Nitro," and "Jonesing for Jones" rank among the Wildhearts' best material, and opener "I Wanna Go Where the People Go" is quite possibly their best single ever -- no mean feat.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10 and 11)

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