Diamonds, Diamonds is a "Greatest Hits" album by the Canadian rock band Max Webster. It was released in 1981 after the band had broken up, and features two new tracks: "Hot Spots" and "Overnight Sensation", which were recorded in 1975 during the debut album sessions. No songs from the band's fifth album, Universal Juveniles, are included on this album. An alternate version of "On the Road" from the High Class in Borrowed Shoes sessions was slated for release but pulled at the eleventh hour.

Diamonds, Diamonds
Greatest hits album by
Released7 August 1981
RecordedMay 1975 – January 1979
GenreRock
Length47:24
LabelAnthem
ProducerVarious
Max Webster chronology
Universal Juveniles
(1980)
Diamonds, Diamonds
(1981)
The Best of Max Webster
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[2]

Track listing edit

All songs by Kim Mitchell and Pye Dubois, except where indicated

Side one
  1. "Gravity" – 4:52
  2. "High Class in Borrowed Shoes" – 3:59
  3. "Diamonds, Diamonds" – 3:19
  4. "Summer's Up" – 2:36
  5. "Blowing the Blues Away" (Terry Watkinson) – 3:15
  6. "Let Go the Line" (Watkinson) – 3:34
  7. "A Million Vacations" (Gary McCracken, Dubois) – 3:14
Side two
  1. "The Party" – 4:46
  2. "Hot Spots" – 2:41
  3. "Paradise Skies" – 3:27
  4. "Overnight Sensation" – 2:55
  5. "Lip Service" – 4:02
  6. "Hangover" – 4:38

Tracks 1-5, 13 produced by Max Webster and Terry Brown
Tracks 8, 9, 11, 12 produced by Max Webster, Terry Brown, Mike Tilka
Tracks 6, 7, 10 produced by Max Webster and John De Nottbeck

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Diamonds Diamonds at AllMusic
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 217. ISBN 978-1894959315.