''Don't Fight It'' is the debut album by Canadian rock band

Red Rider Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved significant success in Canada, the band never had a song in the top 40 in the United States, although " Lunatic Fringe" from t ...

, released in 1979 in Canada. ''Don't Fight It'' sold more than 100,000 copies in Canada and earned Cochrane and Red Rider their first

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certification award and was later certified

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. A United States version with a modified track list, dropping "Talkin' to Myself" and reordering the other tracks, was released in 1980. The album was re-issued on CD July 29, 1994. The CD release restored the track "Talkin' to Myself" which was dropped on the initial vinyl release in the United States. Another newly remastered version was released in the UK in 2010 by Lemon Records. The album reached number 146 on ''Billboards Pop Albums chart while "White Hot" reached number 20 on the Canadian charts and number 48 on the Pop Singles chart in 1980 and "Don't Fight It" reached number 75. The song "White Hot" is about poet

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and his travels through

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. It also has a cult following on YouTube.

Track listing

Personnel

Tom Cochrane Thomas William Cochrane ( ; born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian musician best known as the frontman for the rock band Red Rider and for his work as a solo singer-songwriter. Cochrane has won eight Juno Awards. He is a member of the Canadian Music H ...

- guitars, lead vocals (1-4, 6, 8, 10) *

Ken Greer Kenneth William Greer (born 25 July 1954) is a Canadian guitarist and keyboardist. He is one of the founding members of the Canadian rock band Red Rider. Biography Greer is the youngest of seven children born into a musical family in Toronto, ...

- guitars * Peter Boynton - keyboards, lead vocals (5, 7, 9) * Jeff Jones - bass * Rob Baker - drums

References

{{Authority control Red Rider albums 1979 debut albums Capitol Records albums