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LIGHTNING STRIKES
- Release date
- 1986-07-25
- Label
- Warner Music Japan
- Catalog no.
- WPCL-10694
- Format
- Single CD, 9 tracks
- Bonus
- In Japan the same material had appeared on 24 March 1986, in a different running order, as Shadows of War.
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Lightning Strikes, released on 25 July 1986, is the international edition of the album issued in Japan that March as Shadows of War.
The two are built from the same material but are not the same record. The running order was rebuilt from scratch, "Ashes In The Sky" was added, and the title track of the Japanese version dropped out. The structure itself was redesigned for markets abroad — a clear sign that the band treated its home and overseas audiences as separate propositions in this period.
Max Norman produced. The lyrics are credited to Loudness, though Norman is known to have done a substantial amount of uncredited work on them. At No. 64 on the Billboard 200, with fifteen weeks on the chart, this remains the band's best American showing.
TRACK LIST
- 1.Let It Go
- 2.Dark Desire
- 3.1000 Eyes
- 4.Face To Face
- 5.Who Knows
- 6.Ashes In The Sky
- 7.Black Star Oblivion
- 8.Street Life Dream
- 9.Complication