Prince Charming (album)
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| Studio album by Adam and the Ants | ||||
| Released | 14 November 1981 | |||
| Recorded | August 1981 | |||
| Studio | Air Studios, London, England | |||
| Genre | New wave | |||
| Length | 37:21 | |||
| Label | CBS | |||
| Producer | Chris Hughes | |||
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| Smash Hits |   |
| Trouser Press | unfavourable |
Prince Charming is the third album by and final credited to Adam and the Ants (future albums would be credited to Adam Ant), released in November 1981. This album features bass player Gary Tibbs in place of Kevin Mooney, the bassist on Kings of the Wild Frontier. The album included the band's two number-one UK hit singles "Stand and Deliver" and "Prince Charming" as well as "Ant Rap", which went to Number 1 in Australia.
The album peaked at number 2 in the UK charts and received mixed reviews from critics.
The hidden track, "The Lost Hawaiians", is an instrumental remake of "Los Rancheros" from their previous album, Kings of the Wild Frontier.
Prince Charming was released in November 1981 by Columbia Records. The album spawned the two UK number 1 singles "Stand and Deliver" (with a different ending from the single version) and "Prince Charming", which reached number 1 in April and September 1981 respectively, and "Ant Rap" which reached number 3 in January 1982 when it was remixed.
The album was remastered and reissued in 2004 with six bonus demo tracks.
Writing in Smash Hits magazine in November 1981, Ian Birch gave the album 5 out of 10 and commented "Gone are the strong melodies that made Kings of the Wild Frontier so addictive; in are elaborate details (the intros are the highpoint here)...The surface might be glossily busy but it's no substitute for good songs." In his retrospective review, AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "the songs just aren't there", stating that it "simply has style and sound – which, in retrospect, isn't all that bad", while Rolling Stone called it "exactly the same album [as Kings of the Wild Frontier], except with a blue cover."Trouser Press called it "a letdown" and that "much of the LP seems forced, ill-tempered and silly."
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