Wild Willing & Innocent (Reis) [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

UFO | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 26, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
• ASIN: B00004SAMO
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #231,843 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Chains Chains

2. Long Gone

3. The Wild The Willing And The Innocent

4. It's Killing Me

5. Makin' Moves

6. Lonely Heart

7. Couldn't Get It Right

8. Profession Of Violence

9. Hot'N'Ready (Live-1980 Reading Festival)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The elusive "Perfect" album..........................., December 8, 2002

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Cameron Traviss (vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews
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The Wild, the Willing, and the Innocent was,for me, a landmark UFO album. My favorite album OF ALL TIME. Sort of a concept album, the flow from soft to brutally heavy is breathtaking in its scope and clarity. There is not a weak moment on this album,PERIOD. Paul Chapman rebounds from the tentative No Place to Run to provide punishing rhythm (he's a better rhythm player than Michael) and blistering leads on tracks like the title track, Lonely Heart, and Couldn't Get it Right. Phil is, well, Phil. And that's as good as it gets. Andy Parker controls the flow of the album with Zeppelin-esque bottom. Neil Carter is a welcome addition on this album,contributing sax and guitar.
The song order,production, and over all feel of this album are incredibly well thought out. It didn't chart that high over here, and it's too bad because this is UFO's finest hour. The absolute pinnacle of their career. This album creates a mood and atmosphere that transcends the music! I'd give it 50 stars if i could. Not just UFO's best album,but one of the greatest rock records ever made.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars MAGICAL!, March 15, 2006

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Kevin Plunkett "Kid Kevony" (Grants Pass, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild Willing & Innocent (Reis) (Audio CD)

I first heard this album when it came out in 1981. Put aside to be forgotten. However, I was fortunate enough to spot it on Amazon and decided to pick it up. Eureka! I discovered where those magical sounds in my subconscious were coming from. It seems as though this album got into my head and never left. I totally forgot what a great piece of work it was. Absolutely Paul Chapman's best! He lets loose on some wonderful guitar riffs and is accompanied by the old stand-bys Mogg, Parker, and Way. Be careful though, I have awakened many mornings recently with songs from the Wild Willing and the Innocent running through my head like some mystical Trance! IT WILL REALLY GROW ON YOU!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jack of diamonds is a gambling man..., August 7, 2002

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Mark H. "mrh" (Hanson, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wild Willing & Innocent (Reis) (Audio CD)

Another year and another vinyl triumph for UFO. One minor lineup change aside (Paul Raymond leaves and Neil Carter comes in to add a sax along with keys and rhythm guitar) and the Paul Chapman era cruises along with another platter full of tough and tender street sagas. Highlights are a plenty. Lead track "Chains Chains", title track, "Makin Moves", and "Long Gone" carry Mogg/Way and Co. full on into the 1980's. "Couldn't Get it Right", which is this albums equivalent to `No Place to Run's "Money, Money", is probably the closest the band would come to an actual hit single. Another contender could be "Lonely Heart" a showcase for Carter's piano and horn. Chapman gets to rip it up on "Profession of Violence", "Moves" and "Gone". Only eight songs, which is a shame in its brevity but then again no filler and no covers (kind of a hit or miss thing for UFO anyway). Phil Mogg's voice never sounded better and WWI continues the magical journey which would end soon enough two years later with Making Contact. Like `No Place to Run', this LP is very rare now but if you love early eighties hard rock with a melody you could do much worse.