''Back For Another Taste'' is the seventh

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studio album and eighth album altogether. It was also their last album of their original

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contract. In a fall 1987 interview on

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with

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, lead vocalist

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jokingly stated that this album would be titled ''Blood, Sweat & Beer''. One of the album's singles, "Running Wild in the 21st Century", reached #1 on the ''

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chart.

Track listing

# "The Storm" # "Running Wild in the 21st Century" # "That's Life" # "Breakdown" # "Heavy Metal Cowboys" # "Back for Another Taste" # "Rockin' Rollercoaster" # "Midnight Express" # "Good to the Last Drop" # "Give It to You" # "Wheels of Thunder" * The UK edition of ''Back for Another Taste'' contains a bonus track, "Wild in the Streets" from the ''

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'' (1987) album. This bonus track appeared at the end of Side 1, or between "Heavy Metal Cowboys" and "Back for Another Taste" as the 6th track on the CD.

Credits

Helix

– lead vocals *

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– guitars, backing vocals *Daryl Gray – bass, backing vocals *Greg "Fritz" Hinz – drums (1-6, 10, 11), backing vocals

Additional Musicians

*The Doctor (Brent Doerner) – lead (6, 11) and rhythm guitar, backing vocals *Marc Ribler – lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars, backing vocals (8, 9) *Brian Doerner – drums (7-9) *John Adamo – piano (11) and programming *Sal Andolina – saxophone (2) *Gord Prior – backing vocals (8)

Production

*Produced by

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and Helix *Recorded at The River Studios -

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*Alex Haas, Dave O'Donnell, Gary Solomon, Michael Christopher, Rob Eaton, Steve Boyer, Steve Rinkoff, Tony Bongiovi - mixing at

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Singles

"The Storm"
"Running Wild in the 21st Century" (awarded "Heavy Metal Video of the Year" in 1990 on

)
"Good To The Last Drop" (

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release only:

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track "S.E.X. Rated" remains unreleased on CD to date in this version, as it is a different recording than that on the Helix ''

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Track listing

Credits

Helix

Additional Musicians

Production

Singles

Charts

Album

Singles

References