Adrenalin Baby

2015 live album by Johnny Marr

Adrenalin Baby

Live album by

Johnny Marr

Released

9 October 2015

Recorded

2014^[1]

Length

77:37

Label

New Voodoo
Warner Bros.

Producer

Johnny Marr
James Doviak

Johnny Marr chronology

Playland
(2014)

Adrenalin Baby
(2015)

Call the Comet
(2018)

Adrenalin Baby is a live album by musician Johnny Marr. It was released on 9 October 2015 by New Voodoo Records.^[2] The album was recorded at the Manchester Apollo, Glasgow Academy and Brixton Academy shows. It peaked at number 96 in the UK Albums Chart.^[3]

Background

Adrenalin Baby was recorded live during the Playland tour in 2014. The Playland tour was extensive and included, among others, dates in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany and France.^[4] Of Adrenalin Baby, Marr said that he had "wanted to capture the atmosphere and feeling of the last couple of tours". The album features live versions of tracks from both Marr's solo records Playland, The Messenger, and renditions of songs from earlier on in his career, such as "Getting Away With It", which he released with New Order’s Bernard Sumner as Electronic. Adrenalin Baby also features The Smiths songs "The Headmaster Ritual", "Bigmouth Strikes Again", "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" and "How Soon Is Now?"^[5]

Critical reception

Adrenalin Baby received positive reviews from different music critics. NME said Marr "proves his greatness on a spiky live album"^[6] and at Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album scored an average rating of 73.^[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Johnny Marr except track 6, 10, 14, 17 Morrissey/Marr, track 13 by Bernard Sumner/Marr/Neil Tennant and track 16 by Sonny Curtis

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Playland"	6:13
2.	"The Right Thing Right"	3:59
3.	"Easy Money"	4:07
4.	"25 Hours"	4:01
5.	"New Town Velocity"	5:34
6.	"The Headmaster Ritual"	4:44
7.	"The Messenger"	4:42
8.	"Back in the Box"	3:23
9.	"Generate! Generate!"	4:40
10.	"Bigmouth Strikes Again"	3:20
11.	"Boys Get Straight"	2:51
12.	"Candidate"	4:42
13.	"Getting Away with It"	7:03
14.	"There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"	5:53
15.	"Dynamo"	4:11
16.	"I Fought the Law"	2:44
17.	"How Soon Is Now?"	5:30
Total length:		77:37

Personnel

Credits are adapted from liner notes of Adrenalin baby.^[8]

Musicians

Johnny Marr – vocals, guitars, production
James Doviak – keyboards, guitars, backing vocals, production
Iwan Gronow – bass, backing vocals
Jack Mitchell – drums

Additional personnel

Johnny Marr and Doviak – mixing
Frank Arkwright – mastering
Joe Moss – management
Dave Cronen – management

Artwork personnel

Nile Marr – cover shot
Mat Bancroft and Laura Turner – layout
Pat Graham, Elspeth Moore and Ian Thriller – Photography

References

^ "Johnny Marr website".
^ "Adrenalin Baby release date".
^ "JOHNNY MARR | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
^ "All Music review". AllMusic.
^ "Johnny Marr announcement".
^ "Pitchfork Review". NME.
^ "Metacritic analysis". Metacritic.
^ Adrenalin Baby (liner notes). Johnny Marr. New Voodoo Records. 2015.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)