Itch (Kim Mitchell album)

Itch
Studio album by
Kim Mitchell
Released1994
StudioReaction Studios, Toronto, Canada
Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
GenreRock
Length50:53
LabelAlert (Canada)
Fresh Fruit/SPV (Europe)
ProducerJoe Hardy
Kim Mitchell chronology
Aural Fixations
(1992) 		Itch
(1994) 		Greatest Hits
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[2]

Itch is the sixth album from Canadian singer and guitarist Kim Mitchell. The album was released in 1994. This would be the last album to date that Mitchell would collaborate with lyricist Pye Dubois. Dubois didn't contribute any lyrics to Mitchell's previous album Aural Fixations, released two years before this album.

Track listing

All songs by Kim Mitchell, Pye Dubois, except "Karaoke Queen" by Mitchell, Dubois and Lou Pomanti

  1. "Wonder Where and Why" – 3:46
  2. "Acrimony" – 3:35
  3. "Lick Yer Finger" – 4:01
  4. "The U.S. of Ache" – 5:38
  5. "Lemon Wedge" – 5:33
  6. "Heartbreakbustop" – 4:57
  7. "Your Face or Mine" – 4:41
  8. "Human Condition" – 5:16
  9. "Stand" – 4:31
  10. "Karaoke Queen" – 4:22
  11. "Cheer Us On" – 4:27
  12. "Beachtown" – 4:49 (European version bonus track)

Personnel

Musicians
  • Kim Mitchell – guitar, vocals, arrangements
  • Spider Sinnaeve – bass
  • Greg Morrow – drums and percussion
  • Lou Pomanti – keyboards
  • Peter Fredette, William C. Brown III, Bertram Brown – background vocals
  • Scott Thompson – trumpet
  • Jim Spake – saxophone
  • Pye Dubois – lyrics
Production
  • Joe Hardy – producer, engineer, mixing, arrangements
  • Todd Booth – arrangements
  • Tom Heron, Jeff Elliott, Erik Flettrich – assistant engineers
  • Scott Murley – digital sequencing and editing
  • George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
  • W. Tom Berry – executive producer, management

References

  1. ^ "Kim Mitchell - Itch review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 283–284. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
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