Working Class Dog (Aniv) [Original recording remastered]

Rick Springfield | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 25, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000G7PNC2
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,385 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great bonus material and cool liner notes, July 27, 2006

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Dorrie Wheeler - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Working Class Dog (Aniv) (Audio CD)

Working Class Dog was the album that made Rick Springfield an international music star. True, Rick had released albums prior to Working Class Dog, but this was the release that set him into the pop music stratosphere. Working Class Dog has been re-released after 25 years--re-mastered and with bonus tracks. Working Class Dog includes Rick Springfield's most well known hit "Jessie's Girl." Other popular songs on the album include "I've Done Everything For You," and "Love Is Alright Tonite." The best part about this re-master (in addition to the songs sounding better than ever), is that included on the CD are three bonus tracks. "Easy To Cry," and the original version of "Taxi Dancing" which have not been released in the past are included. Also on the disc is the demo version of "Jessie's Girl." As for liner notes the CD includes extensive almost Q&A style album notes from Rick Springfield and people involved with the making of the album. Quite interesting reading I must say. Rick provides comments, some quite extensive for each song on the album. Also included is a reproduction of the handwritten lyrics for "Jessie's Girl."

If you owned the album before, pick up this new version. You will only love it more.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellant Remastering of a Classic, April 10, 2007

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Bradley Jacobson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Working Class Dog (Aniv) (Audio CD)

Finally, this great and I mean that in all sincerity CD has been given the remaster treatment. I believe every album and cassette I owned in the early 80s should be given such a treatment, and I mean the kind of styling this album got not that schlock job Chrysalis did on my Benatar CDs. On top of all 10 glorious songs from this 1981 album, the powers that be (and Ricky boy included) conjured up the "Jessie's Girl" demo, and two other songs from his orignal demo including a rocking little ditty called "Easy To Cry" - the CD even has a song by song description by Rick and two of the producers Keith Olsen & Bill Drescher. I found out some interesting stuff like Keith was called in from his sessions on Pat Benatar's Crimes Of Passion to work on 2 songs for Working Class Dog, but because Pat's album was so important he could only do it on the weekends, of course he grabbed Pat's hubby Neil Geraldo and he played on a few of the songs, and "I've Done Everything For You" a Sammy Hagar penned tune was given to Rick by Keith because Miss Patty Patty declined it saying it was too macho. But that is all petty trivia compared to the pop/rock genius that is this album - the singles need no real explanation; "Jessie's Girl", "Love Is Alright Tonite", the aformentioned "I've Done.." were all roller skating staples when I was but a wee tyke - but the other tracks are so great as well - all 3 minute pop gems "Hole In My Heart" (though I'm stil partial to Lisa Hartman's faster cover), "Carry Me Away", the reggae twinged "Daddy's Pearl", hilarious "Everybody's Girl" (it isn't nice, no but they call you everybody's girl/ they say, here she comes, here she comes, here comes everybody's girl), the jam blues punch of "Red Hot & Blue Love" and the sinister but sexy "Inside Silvia." A great pick up and a great remaster.

5.0 out of 5 stars "The Best Rock Singer of the Eighties", May 30, 2011

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Terry Richard "Terry Richard" (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Working Class Dog (Aniv) (Audio CD)

I was 15 years old when I turned on the television one day and suddenly there was a new character on "General Hospital" named Dr. Noah Drake. As a young gay teen my heart started doing flip-flops as I, as well as every other gay boy and straight girl, fell in love with this handsome new leading man on the #1 rated daytime show in America. A few days later I heard the same name on my radio and found out the man playing Noah Drake was also a singer named Rick Springfield. I started buying every magazine this guy was on and "Working Class Dog" was the first rock album I purchased.

The album is probably one of the best albums of modern eighties rock and made Rick Springfield into an international success. The big single from the album, "Jessie's Girl", garnered Rick a Grammy as Best Rock Performance by a Male, as well as going to #1 on the Billboard Singles Chart. The other single, the first released, "I've Done Everything For You", went to #8 and the album would go all the way into the Top 10 landing at #7 and going multi-platinum.

In 2006 RCA rereleased the album for its 25th Anniversary Edition that included 3 bonus tracks, the original demo version of "Jessie's Girl", the original version of the beautiful "Taxi Dancing" that Rick would rerecord in 1984 as a duet for his "Hard To Hold" soundtrack album, and the previous unreleased "Easy To Cry".

Other greats here include the opener "Love Is Alright Tonight", "Inside Silvia", and "The Light of Love".