Kings of the Wild Frontier

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Template:Album infobox Kings of the Wild Frontier New Wave-punk This album introduced the new Burundi Drum sound by a reformed Adam & the Ants, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). After having his previous backing band wooed away by producer Malcolm McLaren, who used them to form Bow Wow Wow, Adam Ant recorded Kings of the Wild Frontier with guitarist Marco Pirroni his new writing partner. In spite of the difficulties with the recording, Kings of the Wild Frontier has become acknowledged as an inspiritational and unique sounding album, introducing two drummers, with Duanne Eddy sounding guitar rifts. Unique in style and sound, it is hard to classify it as anything but Antmusic though some consider it fringe pop-oriented post punk rock.

The album spawned three hit singles: "Kings Of The Wild Frontier" (7/80 reached # 2 in 2/81), "Dog Eat Dog" (10/81 reached # 4 in 10/81) and "Antmusic" (12/80 reached #2 in 1/81).

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Track listing

  1. "Dog Eat Dog"
  2. "Antmusic"
  3. "Los Rancheros"
  4. "Feed Me to the Lions"
  5. "Ants Invasion"
  6. "Killer in the Home"
  7. "Kings of the Wild Frontier"
  8. "The Magnificent 5"
  9. "Don't Be Square (Be There)"
  10. "Jolly Roger"
  11. "Making History"
  12. "The Human Beings"

All songs written by Adam Ant/Marco Pirroni.

The U.S. release has a slightly different tracklisting, removing "Making History", while adding two earlier Ant written songs, "Press Darlings" (trk 5), and "Physical (You're So)" (trk 12) - both of which had appeared as b-sides on UK singles.

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Personnel

  • Adam Ant - Vocals
  • Marco Pirroni - Guitar
  • Kevin Mooney - Bass
  • Merrick - Drums
  • Terry Lee Miall - Drums
  • Chris Hughes - Producer

Note - Merrick is the name Chris Hughes adopted as an Ant.

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Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album 1981 Pop Albums No. 44 Billboard (North America) - singles 1981 Dog Eat Dog Club Play Singles No. 19 1981 Antmusic Mainstream Rock No. 14 1981 Dog Eat Dog Mainstream Rock No. 15 1981 Physical (You're So) Mainstream Rock No. 19

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