Backlash (Bad English album)

Backlash is the second and final studio album by British/American rock band Bad English, released in 1991.

Backlash
Studio album by Bad English
Released	August 27, 1991
Recorded	1991
Studio	Conway Studios and Secret Sound L.A. (Hollywood, California); Can-Am Recorders (Tarzana, California); Zoo Studios (Encino, California).
Genre	Hard rock AOR
Length	48:22
Label	Epic
Producer	Ron Nevison
Bad English chronology
Bad English (1989) Backlash (1991)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Entertainment Weekly	B
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The album peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard 200.

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "taken together, the album — with its unceasing references to rain and rivers — inevitably bogs down, but heard one at a time over the FM in the Ford, even its platitudes, given [John] Waite’s delivery, add up to a hack-rock miracle or two." The Rolling Stone Album Guide deemed Backlash "more spirited" than the debut.

Track listing

1. "So This Is Eden" (John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Russ Ballard) - 5:09
2. "Straight to Your Heart" (Waite, Neal Schon, Cain, Mark Spiro) - 4:09
3. "Time Stood Still" (Waite, Ricky Phillips, Jesse Harms) - 5:23
4. "The Time Alone with You" (Waite, Diane Warren, Cain) - 4:41
5. "Dancing Off the Edge of the World" (Waite, Cain, Schon) - 4:54
6. "Rebel Say a Prayer" (Waite, Cain, Ballard) - 4:23
7. "Savage Blue" (Waite, Cain, Schon) - 4:33
8. "Pray for Rain" (Waite, Spiro, Cain) - 5:03
9. "Make Love Last" (Waite, Cain) - 5:19
10. "Life at the Top" (Waite, Cain, Spiro, Tim Pierce) - 4:51

Singles

The following singles were released from the album, with the highest charting positions listed.

#	Title	Release Date	Hot 100	CAN
1.	"Straight to Your Heart"	1991	42

Personnel

Bad English

• John Waite – lead vocals
• Jonathan Cain – keyboards, backing vocals
• Neal Schon – guitars, backing vocals
• Ricky Phillips – bass, backing vocals
• Deen Castronovo – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals
• Mark Spiro – backing vocals

Production

• Ron Nevison – producer, engineer
• Tony Phillips – vocal producer, vocal engineer
• Gil Morales – assistant engineer
• Jeff Poe – assistant engineer
• Dave Lopez – assistant vocal engineer
• Rand & Rose – mixing
• Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York City, New York)
• Deandra Miller – production assistant
• Hugh Syme – art direction, design
• Brian Aris – photography
• HK Management and Trudy Green – management
• Lynda Lou Beach – management assistant
• Ged Malone – management assistant