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| genre = [[Post-hardcore]], [[alternative metal]], [[noise rock]]
| genre = [[Post-hardcore]], [[alternative metal]], [[noise rock]]
| length = 71:03 (original)<br>76:34 (remaster)
| length = 71:03 (original)<br>76:34 (remaster)
| label = [[Texas Hotel Records|Texas Hotel]] (original)<br />[[Buddah Records|Buddah]] (remaster)
| label = [[Texas Hotel Records|Texas Hotel]] (original)<br />[[Buddah Records|Buddah]] (remaster)<ref name=TP/>
| producer = Theo Van Rock
| producer = Theo Van Rock
| prev_title = [[Life Time (Rollins Band album)|Life Time]]
| prev_title = [[Life Time (Rollins Band album)|Life Time]]
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The original CD release contained a 32-minute jam on the [[Velvet Underground]] outtake "Move Right In" titled "Joy Riding with Frank." The track was recorded live in Linz, Austria, during the band's 1988 tour. The 1999 remastered edition replaced this track with six studio tracks: three from the album session at Echo Sound in Los Angeles on December 1988, and three from a demo session recorded in July 1988 at Graphic Studios in New Jersey.
The original CD release contained a 32-minute jam on the [[Velvet Underground]] outtake "Move Right In" titled "Joy Riding with Frank." The track was recorded live in Linz, Austria, during the band's 1988 tour. The 1999 remastered edition replaced this track with six studio tracks: three from the album session at Echo Sound in Los Angeles on December 1988, and three from a demo session recorded in July 1988 at Graphic Studios in New Jersey.

==Critical reception==
''[[Trouser Press]]'' wrote that Rollins "sinks into an existential funk on the seven-song ''Hard Volume'' ... Oddly, the rest of the band seems unaffected by his moods, and the music — a well-organized rock juggernaut — thunders along happily."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Rollins Band |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/rollins-band/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==

Revision as of 15:00, 30 December 2020

Hard Volume
Studio album by
Rollins Band
Released1989 (original)
1999 (remaster)
RecordedJuly–December 1988
GenrePost-hardcore, alternative metal, noise rock
Length71:03 (original)
76:34 (remaster)
LabelTexas Hotel (original)
Buddah (remaster)[1]
ProducerTheo Van Rock
Rollins Band chronology
Life Time
(1988) 		Hard Volume
(1989) 		Turned On
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Alternative Press p.97-8, 4/00
Punknews.org[3]
Sputnikmusic5/5[4]

Hard Volume is the second album by the Rollins Band, released in 1989.[5] It was reissued with new tracks in 1999.

The original CD release contained a 32-minute jam on the Velvet Underground outtake "Move Right In" titled "Joy Riding with Frank." The track was recorded live in Linz, Austria, during the band's 1988 tour. The 1999 remastered edition replaced this track with six studio tracks: three from the album session at Echo Sound in Los Angeles on December 1988, and three from a demo session recorded in July 1988 at Graphic Studios in New Jersey.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that Rollins "sinks into an existential funk on the seven-song Hard Volume ... Oddly, the rest of the band seems unaffected by his moods, and the music — a well-organized rock juggernaut — thunders along happily."[1]

Track listing

All tracks composed by the Rollins Band, except where indicated.

Original release

  1. "Hard" – 4:06
  2. "What Have I Got" – 4:58
  3. "I Feel Like This" – 4:26
  4. "Planet Joe" – 4:18
  5. "Love Song" – 6:22
  6. "Turned Inside Out" – 6:24
  7. "Down and Away" – 8:20
  8. "Joy Riding with Frank" - 32:04

Remastered version (1999)

  1. "Hard" – 4:06
  2. "What Have I Got" – 4:58
  3. "I Feel Like This" – 4:26
  4. "Planet Joe" – 4:18
  5. "Love Song" – 6:22
  6. "Turned Inside Out" – 6:24
  7. "Down and Away" – 8:20

Session outtakes

  1. "Tearing" – 4:58*
  2. "You Didn't Need" – 5:11*
  3. "Ghost Rider" (Martin Rev, Alan Vega) – 7:23*

Demo: July 1988

  1. "What Have I Got" – 4:33*
  2. "Thin Air" – 8:21*
  3. "Down and Away" – 7:14*

Personnel

Rollins Band
Others
  • Theo Van Rock – producer, mixing
  • Rae DiLeo – mixing
  • George Marino – mastering (1999 remaster)
  • Wally Traugott – mastering (1989 original)
  • Jeff Aguila – design

References

  1. ^ a b "Rollins Band". Trouser Press. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  2. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/hard-volume-mw0000311765
  3. ^ https://www.punknews.org/review/1501/rollins-band-hard-volume
  4. ^ https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/75788/Rollins-Band-Hard-Volume/
  5. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rollins-band-mn0000280956/biography
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