Robert Palmer – Riptide
(Island Records 1985 ILPS9801)
Matrix No’s: A1/B2 – UK Pressing
Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)
Sleeve & Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– some slight wear to edges
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful, soulful voice and sartorial elegance, and his stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, and blues. Over his four-decade career, Palmer is perhaps best known for the song “Addicted to Love” and its accompanying video, which came to “epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s”.
Riptide is the eighth studio album by English singer Robert Palmer, released in November 1985 by Island Records. The album was recorded over a period of three months in 1985 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. The album peaked at No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart and at No. 8 on the US Billboard200. It was certified double Platinum in the US by the RIAA in March 1996 and certified Gold in the UK by BPI in August 1986. It features the songs “Addicted to Love”, “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On”, “Hyperactive”, “Discipline of Love”, and “Riptide” which were all released as singles. The single “Addicted to Love” was accompanied by an iconic and much-imitated music video, directed by Terence Donovan, in which Palmer is surrounded by a bevy of near-identically clad, heavily made-up female “musicians,” either mimicking or mocking the painting style of Patrick Nagel. In September 1986, Palmer performed “Addicted to Love” at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, California. In 1987, he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for “Addicted to Love”. At the 1987 Brit Awards, Palmer received his first nomination for Best British Male.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Riptide” |
|
2:24 |
| 2. | “Hyperactive” |
|
5:08 |
| 3. | “Addicted to Love” | Palmer | 6:03 |
| 4. | “Trick Bag” (Earl King cover) | Earl King | 3:01 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. | “Get It Through Your Heart” | Palmer | 2:49 |
| 6. | “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On” (Cherrelle cover) |
|
3:43 |
| 7. | “Flesh Wound” |
|
3:43 |
| 8. | “Discipline of Love” |
|
6:06 |
| 9. | “Riptide” (Reprise) |
|
2:00 |
| Total length: | 34:55 | ||
Personnel
- Robert Palmer – lead and backing vocals
- Wally Badarou – keyboards
- Jeff Bova – keyboards
- Jack Waldman – keyboards
- Eddie Martinez – guitars
- Andy Taylor – guitar (3)
- Bernard Edwards – bass (1-7, 9)
- Guy Pratt – bass (8)
- Tony Thompson – drums (1-4, 6, 7, 9)
- Dony Wynn – drums (5, 8)
- Lenny Pickett – saxophone
- Benny Diggs – backing vocals (3, 8)
- Fonzi Thornton – backing vocals (3, 8)
- Chaka Khan – vocal arrangements (3)
Production
- Producer – Bernard Edwards
- Post-production – Eric “ET” Thorngren and Robert Palmer
- Engineer – Jason Corsaro
- Assistant engineers – Michael Abbott, Benjamin Armbrister, Steve Boyer, Jamie Chaleff, John Davenport, Billy Miranda, Dan Peterkofsky and Steve Rinkoff.
- Mixed by Eric “ET” Thorngren
- Recorded at Compass Point Studios (Nassasu, Bahamas).
- Mixed at The Power Station, Electric Lady Studios, The Hit Factory and Right Track Recording (New York, NY).
- Mastered by Jack Skinner at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
- CD mastering by Barry Diament at Atlantic Studios (New York, NY).
- Illustration – Susan Palmer
- Design – Robert Palmer
- Photography – Giuseppe Pino
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