Bitter Sweet & Twisted is rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band The Quireboys

The Quireboys

The Quireboys are an English hard rock band formed in 1984 in London, England, with strong ties to Newcastle. When the band formed they were originally known as The Queerboys and later as the London Quireboys in the United States....

's second studio album, released in 1993. The album was released on EMI and went into the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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 at #31.

Three of the tracks from this album ("Tramps & Thieves", "Brother Louie" and "Last Time") were released as singles, the latter of which was only released in Japan

Japan

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. "Brother Louie" was the highest charting from this album, as it reached #32 on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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The album was produced mostly by Bob Rock

Bob Rock

Robert Jens Rock, , is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer best known for producing bands such as Aerosmith, The Cult, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, 311, Metallica, Our Lady Peace, The Offspring and most recently Bush.-Payola$ and Rock and Hyde:Rock began his music career in Langford,...

, some of the tracks were produced by The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

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 producer Chris Kimsey

Chris Kimsey

Christopher Kenneth Kimsey is a record producer, mixer and musician most famous for having co-produced The Rolling Stones' Undercover and Steel Wheels albums...

. After this album, The Quireboys would split up and didn't release another studio album until 2001.

Track listing

1. "Tramps and Thieves"
2. "White Trash Blues"
3. "Can't Park Here"
4. "King of New York"
5. "Don't Bite the Hand"
6. "Last Time"
7. "Debbie"
8. "Brother Louie"
9. "Ode to You (Baby Just Walk)"
10. "Hates to Please"
11. "My Saint Jude"
12. "Take No Revenge"
13. "Wild, Wild, Wild"
14. "Ain't Love Blind"

Band

• Spike
  Spike (musician)
  Spike sometimes also known as Spike Gray, is an English rock frontman, songwriter and vocalist most famous for his times with The Quireboys with whom he has released four studio albums to date....
  
  - vocals, harp and guitar
• Guy Bailey - guitar, mandolin and vocals
• Guy Griffin - guitar, sitar and vocals
• Nigel Mogg - bass and vocals
• Rudy Richman - drums and percussion
• Chris Johnstone - piano, Hammond B3 and clavinet

Singles

• Tramps and Thieves (1992) UK #41
• Brother Louie (1992) UK #32
• Last Time (1992)