Idol, Billy - Charmed Life

RARE/2HAND VINYL LP ON CHRYSALIS 1990

Chrysalis 3217351 made in Sweden with lyric inner sleeve.

Vinyl NM. Cover EX.

By 1990's aptly named Charmed Life, Billy Idol was seemingly more well-known for his excessive lifestyle than his creative zenith of a few years prior. This made his channeling of Jim Morrison on a rowdy cover of "LA Woman" even more apt. He had done so before, of course, most memorably on 1986's Whiplash Smile. But where Idol's clever amalgam of dance beats and punky guitar breaks had done its part to define the 1980s, his update of the classic Doors song was the new sound of the same old seedy, City of Angels underbelly, remixed for the cusp of a new decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Idol

Tracklist

The Loveless     4:17
Pumping On Steel     4:42
Prodigal Blues     5:41
L.A. Woman     5:30
Trouble With The Sweet Stuff     5:59
Cradle Of Love     4:41
Mark Of Caine     4:32
Endless Sleep     3:13
Love Unchained     4:40
The Right Way     5:04
License To Thrill     6:02