Power Supply (album)

Power Supply
Studio album by Budgie
Released	10 October 1980
Recorded	1980
Studio	The Old Mill, Rockfield, Wales
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	37:18
Label	RCA, Active
Producer	Budgie & Dave Charles
Budgie chronology
Impeckable (1978) Power Supply (1980) Nightflight (1981)

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Power Supply is the eighth album by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie, released in October 1980 on Active Records, a sublabel of RCA Records (which was the distributor of A&M Records — Budgie's previous label — at the time). This is the first album without original guitarist Tony Bourge, who left the band in 1978 after the album Impeckable.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Burke Shelley and John Thomas, except where noted

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Forearm Smash"		5:40
2.	"Hellbender"	Shelley, Thomas, Steve Williams	3:25
3.	"Heavy Revolution"		4:28
4.	"Gunslinger"		5:03

Side two

No.	Title	Length
5.	"Power Supply"	3:41
6.	"Secrets in My Head"	3:58
7.	"Time to Remember"	5:27
8.	"Crime Against the World"	5:36

1993 CD reissue bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Wild Fire"	Shelley, Williams, Thomas	5:13
10.	"High School Girls"	Shelley	3:39
11.	"Panzer Division Destroyed"		5:55
12.	"Lies of Jim (The E-Type Lover)"	Shelley	4:45

• These tracks were originally released as the If Swallowed Do Not Induce Vomiting EP.

2012 remaster bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
9.	"Crime Against the World" (single edit)	3:27
10.	"Gunslinger" (live, 1981)	4:55
11.	"Crime Against the World" (live, 1981)	4:52

Personnel

Band members

• Burke Shelley – vocals, bass
• John Thomas – guitar, slide guitar
• Steve Williams – drums

Production

• Dave Charles – producer, engineer
• Neil Jones – light & sound design
• Tommy John – light & sound design
• Eric Olthwaite – light & sound design
• Adrian Chesterman – Illustration