Album
Vicious Circle
Vicious Circle is the fourth studio album by the American hard rock band L.A. Guns, released on 4 October 1994 through Polydor. It followed Hollywood Vampires from 1991 and came before American Hardcore in 1996, so it sits in the middle of the band's long discography, which now stretches well beyond a dozen records.
The first single was "Long Time Dead", and the band took the album out on a North American tour. For anyone tracing L.A. Guns beyond their late-eighties debut and Cocked & Loaded, this is the record that shows where the group stood in the mid-nineties, and it is a worthwhile stop for fans of straightforward, no-frills hard rock.
Vicious Circle: tracklist, credits and charts
15 tracks · 56:07Tracklist
- 1Face Down4:11
- 2No Crime2:35
- 3Long Time Dead3:22
- 4Killing Machine3:27
- 5Fade Away4:11
- 6Tarantula (instrumental)0:56
- 7Crystal Eyes5:53
- 8Nothing Better to Do2:52
- 9Chasing the Dragon4:50
- 10Kill That Girl3:13
- 11I'd Love to Change the World3:39
- 12Who's in Control (Let 'em Roll)4:02
- 13I'm the One2:28
- 14Why Ain't I Bleeding4:32
- 15Kiss of Death5:55
- Produced by
- Jim Wirt, Michael James Jackson
- Recorded at
- Ocean Way (Hollywood), 4th Street Recorders (Santa Monica), Red Zone (Burbank, California)
- Label
- Polydor
- Length
- 56:07
Singles
- “Long Time Dead”
- “Face Down”
- “Killing Machine”
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| UK Rock & Metal Albums · 1995 | 13 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon) · 1995 | 58 |
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How we know the release date wikipedia 1994-10-04; musicbrainz + wikidata 1994-10-05 (1 days apart, likely another territory)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 5 October 1994 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 4 October 1994 | |
| Wikidata | 5 October 1994 | |
| UK / Europe release | 1994 | earliest UK or European date |
4 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | XE | Polydor | 731452315823 | other |
| 5 October 1994 | JP | Mercury Records | 4988011341649 | original |
| 1995 | CA | PolyGram | other | |
| 7 February 1995 | US | Polydor | 731452315823 | other |
Cover art sources
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|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |
| coverartarchive | 761×758 | upscaled |