Linda Ronstadt - Mad Love (1980)

Linda Ronstadt - Mad Love (1980)

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Linda Ronstadt - Mad Love

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Side A

1. "Mad Love"   3:40

2. "Party Girl"   3:22

3. "How Do I Make You"   2:25

4. "I Can't Let Go"    2:44

5. "Hurt So Bad"   3:17

Side B

6. "Look Out for My Love"   3:29

7. "Cost of Love"   2:38

8. "Justine"   4:00

9. "Girls Talk"   3:22

10. "Talking in the Dark"   2:12

Total length:   31:09

Linda Ronstadt Musicians

Linda Ronstadt – lead vocals, backing vocals (4, 6)

Bill Payne – keyboards

Michael Boddicker – synthesizers (10)

Dan Dugmore – electric guitar (1-6, 8, 9, 10), electric guitar solo (1, 6)

Mark Goldenberg – electric guitar (1-4, 7-10), backing vocals (1, 3, 7), electric guitar solo (3, 4)

Danny Kortchmar – electric guitar (5), electric guitar solo (5)

Mike Auldridge – dobro (6)

Peter Bernstein – acoustic guitar (9)

Bob Glaub – bass guitar

Russ Kunkel – drums

Peter Asher – tambourine (4), percussion (9)

Steve Forman – percussion (9)

Waddy Wachtel – backing vocals (1, 7)

Nicolette Larson – backing vocals (3, 4, 9)

Rosemary Butler – backing vocals (4, 9)

Kenny Edwards – backing vocals (8)

Andrew Gold – backing vocals (8)

Peter Asher – producer

Val Garay – recording, mixing

Niko Bolas – recording assistant

Mike Reese – mastering

Doug Sax – mastering

Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)

Kosh – art direction, design

Peter Howe – photography

Mad Love is the 10th studio album by singer Linda Ronstadt, released in 1980. It debuted at #5 on the Billboard album chart, a record at the time and a first for any female artist, and quickly became her seventh consecutive album to sell over one million copies. It was certified platinum and nominated for a Grammy.

The album reflects the advent in the later 1970s of punk rock and new wave music. Defining their work as a programmatic return of rock music to its original principles, punk and new wave bands rejected the emphasis on virtuosity and high production values favored by the megastars of the decade, ridiculed the claims of anti-establishment claims of lavishly-paid, jet-setting performers and deplored the increasing corporatization and homogenization of rock music. Taken aback by charges of hypocrisy and irrelevance, many veteran acts, including Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Queen, and James Taylor, made sincere (and often successful) efforts to revitalize their sound by adopting aspects of the stripped-down, unpretentious D.I.Y. punk and new wave aesthetic.