Mad Love (Linda Ronstadt album)

Mad Love is a platinum-certified, Grammy-nominated 1980 rock album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. It debuted at #5 on the Billboard album chart, a record at the time and a first for any female artist, and quickly became her seventh consecutive million-selling album.

The album contains versions of Elvis Costello's "Party Girl", "Girls Talk" and "Talking in the Dark" as well as Neil Young's "Look Out for My Love". Three songs from The Cretones' first album, Thin Red Line, were also featured.

The album had Top 10 hits in the US with the frenetic "How Do I Make You" and the achingly pleading "Hurt So Bad". "I Can't Let Go" was the album's third hit single. Ronstadt was named Billboard's #1 Female Artist of 1980. This was her fourth time earning that honor. (She was named the year's top woman in 1975, 1977, and 1978.) She was also nominated for yet another Grammy Award in the Best Rock Vocal Performance Female category.

In 2011, after 31 years, Mad Love was taken out of print. The album was put into reprint in 2012 as part of Warner/Rhino's "Original Album Series" a group of five classic albums packaged in a box with each individual CD in a mini-replica of the original vinyl packaging. That package has also been deleted.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Robert Christgau	B- ^[3]
Rolling Stone	(mixed) ^[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[5]

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mad Love"	Mark Goldenberg	3:40
2.	"Party Girl"	Elvis Costello	3:22
3.	"How Do I Make You"	Billy Steinberg	2:25
4.	"I Can't Let Go"	Chip Taylor, Al Gorgoni	2:44
5.	"Hurt So Bad"	Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein, Bobby Hart	3:17

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Look Out for My Love"	Neil Young	3:29
7.	"Cost of Love"	Goldenberg	2:38
8.	"Justine"	Goldenberg	4:00
9.	"Girls Talk"	Costello	3:22
10.	"Talking in the Dark"	Costello	2:12

Personnel

Linda Ronstadt - lead and background vocals
Dan Dugmore - electric guitars
Waddy Wachtel - guitar, background vocals
Mark Goldenberg - electric guitars, background vocals
Bob Glaub - bass guitar
Russell Kunkel - drums
Bill Payne - keyboards
Danny Kortchmar - electric guitars
Mike Auldridge - dobro
Peter Bernstein - acoustic guitars
Peter Asher, Steve Forman - percussion
Michael Boddicker - synthesizer
Rosemary Butler, Kenny Edwards, Andrew Gold, Nicolette Larson - background vocals

References

↑ Cateforis, Theo (2011). Are We Not New Wave? : Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s. University of Michigan Press. p. 40. ISBN 0-472-03470-7.
↑ Allmusic review
↑ Robert Christgau review
↑ Rolling Stone review
↑ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 701. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

Linda Ronstadt

Stone Poneys albums	The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt Evergreen, Volume 2 Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III

Studio albums	Hand Sown ... Home Grown Silk Purse Linda Ronstadt Don't Cry Now Heart Like a Wheel Prisoner in Disguise Hasten Down the Wind Simple Dreams Living in the USA Mad Love Get Closer What's New Lush Life For Sentimental Reasons Canciones de Mi Padre Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind Mas Canciones Frenesí Winter Light Feels Like Home Dedicated to the One I Love We Ran A Merry Little Christmas Hummin' to Myself

Collaborations	Trio Santiago Trio 2 Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions Adieu False Heart

Compilations	Different Drum Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Volume 2 The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt Mi Jardin Azul: Las Canciones Favoritas Duets

Hit singles	"Different Drum" "Long, Long Time" "You're No Good" "When Will I Be Loved" "Heat Wave" "Love Is a Rose" "The Tracks of My Tears" "That'll Be the Day" "Blue Bayou" "It's So Easy" "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" "Tumbling Dice" "Back in the U.S.A." "Ooh Baby Baby" "Just One Look" "Alison" "How Do I Make You" "Hurt So Bad" "I Can't Let Go" "I Knew You When" "What's New?" "Somewhere Out There "Don't Know Much" "All My Life" "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby"

Related topics	Discography Mr. Plow

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