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Mean Business is a studio album by The Firm, released by Atlantic Records on 3 February 1986. Repeating the same bluesy formula as the debut album, Mean Business did not achieve the same commercial success.
One of the album's tracks "Live in Peace" was first recorded on Paul Rodgers' first solo album, 1983's Cut Loose. The differences between the two versions was that Chris Slade played the drums slower than the Cut Loose version except for the ending and Jimmy Page added a bluesy guitar solo at the end of the song.
The album's title was intended to have a double meaning: that the music business is a hard one, and that the band was serious about its music ("The Firm mean business"). However, perhaps due to the lukewarm-at-best critical and financial success with which the band met, Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers decided to disband The Firm within months of this album's release.
The album peaked at #22 on the Billboard's Billboard 200 album chart and #46 on the UK Album Chart, and the single "All The King's Horses" spent four weeks at the top of Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
[edit] Track listing
| Writer(s) |
| 1. |
"Fortune Hunter" |
Page, Rodgers |
5:00 |
| 2. |
"Cadillac" |
Page, Rodgers |
5:57 |
| 3. |
"All the King's Horses" |
Rodgers |
3:16 |
| 4. |
"Live in Peace" |
Rodgers |
5:05 |
| Writer(s) |
| 1. |
"Tear Down the Walls" |
Page, Rodgers |
4:43 |
| 2. |
"Dreaming" |
Franklin |
6:00 |
| 3. |
"Free to Live" |
Page, Rodgers |
4:13 |
| 4. |
"Spirit of Love" |
Rodgers |
5:06 |
1986 Compact disc edition
Same track listing and order as the vinyl release.
[edit] Chart positions
| Chart (1986) |
Peak Position |
| US Billboard The 200 Albums Chart[1] |
22 |
| Canadian RPM Top 100 Chart[2] |
37 |
| Swedish Albums Chart[3] |
43 |
| UK Albums Chart[4] |
46 |
[edit] Singles
| Year |
Single |
Chart |
Position |
| 1986 |
"All the King's Horses" |
US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart[5] |
1 |
| 1986 |
"All the King's Horses" |
US Billboard The Billboard Hot 100 Chart[6] |
61 |
| 1986 |
"All the King's Horses" |
US Cash Box Top 100 Singles Chart[7] |
67 |
| 1986 |
"Live in Peace" |
US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart[8] |
21 |
[edit] Personnel
- Julian Mendelsohn - Producer
- Aubrey Powell Productions - Cover design
- Barry Diament - Mastering
[edit] Additional notes
Recorded and mixed at The Sol Studios, Cookham, Berkshire, England. Mastered at Atlantic Studios, New York, United States.
Catalogue: Atlantic 781628-1
[edit] References
