Victim of Love (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Victim of Love
Type = Album
Artist = Elton John


Released = October 13 1979 (UK)
October 1979 (U.S.)
Recorded = August 1979
Genre = Disco
Length = 35:45
Label = MCA (US/Canada) Rocket Records
Producer = Pete Bellotte
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|1.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:znem97b7krkt link]
* "Rolling Stone" (not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/eltonjohn/albums/album/162465/review/5946339/victim_of_love link]
*Robert Christgau (C-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=elton+john link] |
Last album = "A Single Man" (1978)
This album = "Victim of Love" (1979)
Next album = "Lady Samantha" (1980)

"Victim of Love" is the thirteenth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1979. Recorded at Musicland, Munich and Rusk Sound Studios, Hollywood, it was not critically or commercially well-received, and is his second lowest charting album to date.Despite all this, it was reissued in a digitally remaster format in 2003. The only single b-side released, "Strangers" appeared as a bonus track on the previous album, "A Single Man" as it was recorded during those sessions.

When the album was released as a CD in the 80's, the tracks often got mixed up. The first 40 seconds of "Spotlight" is actually the previous track, and this error occurs in other tracks as well. This was not fixed on the 2003 remaster either.

Track listing

ide one

# "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) – 8:06
# "Warm Love in a Cold World" (Pete Bellotte/Stefan Wisnet/Gunther Moll) – 3:22
# "Born Bad" (Bellotte/Geoff Bastow) – 6:20

ide two

# "Thunder in the Night" (Bellotte/Michael Hofmann) – 4:40
# "Spotlight" (Bellotte/Wisnet/Moll) – 4:22
# "Street Boogie" (Bellotte/Wisnet/Moll) – 3:53
# "Victim of Love" (Bellotte/Sylvester Levay/Jerry Rix) – 5:02

B-sides