A Matter of Attitude is the second album by Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band Fate

Fate (band)

Fate, Danish heavy metal band originally formed in 1984. They released four albums between 1984-1990 before disbanding in 1993. However after a one-off reunion at a German music festival in 2004, Fate was reformed and released a new album, V, in 2006...

, released in 1986.

The album was in the hook-filled melodic hard rock/pop metal vein, featuring tight vocal harmonies

Harmony

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 over a strong rhythm section

Rhythm section

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, guitar, and sweeping synthesizer. Stylistically it was like Europe

Europe (band)

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 with a bit more bite. "I Won't Stop" was the album's first single, and the track was also released in an extended 12" remix

Remix

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 version. The album was almost entirely hard-driving rockers, without the power ballads of many other bands of the genre. Original closer was "Do It", a tongue-in-cheek retro Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

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-style shuffle of the type David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth

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 and David Johansen

David Johansen

David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...

 were experimenting with at the time.

After a decade and a half out of print, the album was re-released on CD by independent label MTM Classix in 2004. The re-release includes lyrics

Lyrics

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 and liner notes, including a new thank-you section. The collection ends with two new bonus tracks. The first, "Hardcore Romance", is in a rawer style, sans the keyboards prevalent throughout the original '80s recording. The second, "Memories of You", makes up for the lack of balladry in the original tracklist, bringing back a subtler wash of keyboards and a subdued guitar.

Track listing

1. "Won't Stop" - 3:21
2. "Hard as a Rock" - 3:47
3. "I Can't Stand Losing You" - 4:50
4. "Point of No Return" - 3:51
5. "The Hunter" - 4:16
6. "Summer Love" - 4:00
7. "Farrah" - 3:53
8. "Get Up and Go" - 3:21
9. "Limbo a Go Go" - 4:04
10. "Do It" - 2:34
11. "Hardcore Romance" [2004 Bonus track]
12. "Memories of You" [2004 Bonus track]

Personnel

• Jeff "Lox" Limbo – vocals
  Human voice
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• Hank Shermann
  Hank Shermann
  Hank Shermann is a Danish heavy metal guitarist. He began playing guitar in 1977.Shermann is best known for his work with Mercyful Fate, a band influential on Metallica. He has also played with the groups Brats, Fate, Zoser Mez, Gutrix, Virus 7, and his last main focus, Force Of Evil...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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• Pete Steiner – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , keyboards
  Electronic keyboard
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• Bob Lance – drums
  Drum kit
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