Power Supply (album)

Power Supply
Power Supply
Studio album by Budgie
Released	10 October 1980
Recorded	1980
Studio	The Old Mill, Rockfield, Wales
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	37:18
Label	RCA, Active
Producer	Budgie & Dave Charles
Budgie chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Power Supply is the eighth album by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie, released in October 1980 on Active Records, a sublabel of RCA Records (which was the distributor of A&M Records — Budgie's previous label — at the time). This is the first album without original guitarist Tony Bourge, who left the band in 1978 after the album Impeckable.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Burke Shelley and John Thomas, except where noted

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Forearm Smash"		5:40
2.	"Hellbender"	Shelley, Thomas, Steve Williams	3:25
3.	"Heavy Revolution"		4:28
4.	"Gunslinger"		5:03

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"Power Supply"	3:41
6.	"Secrets in My Head"	3:58
7.	"Time to Remember"	5:27
8.	"Crime Against the World"	5:36

1993 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Wild Fire"	Shelley, Williams, Thomas	5:13
10.	"High School Girls"	Shelley	3:39
11.	"Panzer Division Destroyed"		5:55
12.	"Lies of Jim (The E-Type Lover)"	Shelley	4:45

These tracks were originally released as the If Swallowed Do Not Induce Vomiting
EP.

2012 remaster bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
9.	"Crime Against the World" (single edit)	3:27
10.	"Gunslinger" (live, 1981)	4:55
11.	"Crime Against the World" (live, 1981)	4:52

Personnel

Band members

Burke Shelley – vocals, bass
John Thomas – guitar, slide guitar
Steve Williams – drums

Production

Dave Charles – producer, engineer
Neil Jones – light & sound design
Tommy John – light & sound design
Eric Olthwaite – light & sound design
Adrian Chesterman – Illustration

References

^
AllMusic
. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
^ Malone, Frank (18 March 2018). "Budgie Power Supply review - Metallum". Metallum. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

[allmusic-1] 
AllMusic
. Retrieved 27 November 2011.

[2] Malone, Frank (18 March 2018). "Budgie Power Supply review - Metallum". Metallum. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

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Burke Shelley Steve Williams Craig Goldy Tony Bourge Ray Phillips Rob Kendrick Duncan Mackay Simon Lees
Studio albums	Budgie Squawk Never Turn Your Back on a Friend In for the Kill! Bandolier If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules Impeckable Power Supply Nightflight Deliver Us from Evil You're All Living in Cuckooland
Live albums	Heavier Than Air – Rarest Eggs We Came, We Saw... Life in San Antonio Radio Sessions 1974 & 1978 The BBC Recordings
Compilations	Best of Budgie (1975) Best of Budgie (1981) An Ecstasy of Fumbling – The Definitive Anthology Best of Budgie (1997) The Last Stage
Miscellaneous	Band members "Breadfan" If Swallowed, Do Not Induce Vomiting