On the Highwire is a compilation album by English rock band Trapeze. Released on 2 December 2003 by Castle Communications, the album features all tracks from the band's 1979 sixth and final studio album Hold On, the 1998 live album Live: Way Back to the Bone and the 1981 live album Live in Texas: Dead Armadillos.

On the Highwire
Compilation album by
Released2 December 2003 (2003-12-02)
Recorded1970–1979
Genre
Length2:34:36
LabelCastle
Producer
Trapeze chronology
Live at the Boat Club 1975
(2003)
On the Highwire
(2003)

Reception

edit

AllMusic writer Greg Prato claimed that "since On the Highwire skips the group's studio work with Hughes (which is by far the group's strongest work), [it] fails to deliver as a true career overview", noting that the first disc "falls a bit flat" but adding that the second "fares much better, as it focuses on much stronger material".[1]

Track listing

edit

Disc one

edit
Hold On (1979)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Don't Ask Me How I Know"Peter Goalby2:48
2."Take Good Care"Mel Galley3:33
3."When You Go to Heaven"Goalby4:09
4."Livin' on Love"Goalby3:48
5."Hold On"M. Galley5:03
6."Don't Break My Heart"M. Galley5:40
7."Running"M. Galley4:26
8."You Are"M. Galley4:49
9."Time Will Heal"M. Galley6:36
Total length:40:52
Live: Way Back to the Bone (1998)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
10."Way Back to the Bone"Glenn Hughes7:47
11."You Are the Music"
  • M. Galley
  • Tom Galley
5:37
12."Seafull"Hughes8:50
13."Your Love Is Alright"
13:43
Total length:35:57

Disc two

edit
Live: Way Back to the Bone continued
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Medusa"Hughes8:24
2."Black Cloud"
  • M. Galley
  • T. Galley
9:17
3."Keepin' Time"
  • M. Galley
  • T. Galley
8:35
4."Touch My Life"
  • M. Galley
  • T. Galley
9:33
Total length:35:49
Live in Texas: Dead Armadillos (1981)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Back Street Love"
  • M. Galley
  • T. Galley
6:57
6."Hold On"M. Galley5:29
7."Midnight Flyer"
  • M. Galley
  • T. Galley
7:32
8."You Are the Music"
  • M. Galley
  • T. Galley
6:01
9."Black Cloud"
  • M. Galley
  • T. Galley
9:05
10."Way Back to the Bone"Hughes6:59
Total length:42:03

Personnel

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ Prato, Greg. "On the Highwire - Trapeze: Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
edit