About Warrior

Warrior is the debut and only full-length studio album by American rock band Scandal, credited on the cover as "Scandal featuring Patty Smyth". It was released on August 21, 1984, by Columbia Records.

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The album peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 chart, driven by the success of its lead single, "The Warrior", which became the band's biggest hit.

In 2014, the album was reissued in an expanded and remastered edition by Rock Candy Records. This edition included five bonus tracks from Scandal's 1982 self-titled debut EP, Scandal.

Contents

Personnel

Scandal

Patty Smyth – lead vocals

Zack Smith – guitar, background vocals

Ivan Elias – bass guitar

Keith Mack – guitar, background vocals

Thommy Price – drums, background vocals

Additional musicians

Peter Wood – synthesizer

Pat Mastelotto – drums on "Only the Young"

Andy Newmark – drums on "Less Than Half"

Franke Previte – background vocals on "Hands Tied"

Norman Mershon – background vocals on "Hands Tied"

Production

Mike Chapman - producer

John Agnello, David Alhert, Carol Cafiero, John Davenport, Eddie Garcia, Dave Hernandez, Greg Mack, William Wittman, Gene Wooley - engineering

John Davenport, William Wittman, David Alhert, Gene Wooley - mixing

LP dead-wax reads "A Disgusting Pile of Guts" on the A-side; the B-side reads "I Like That About Myself"

Chart performance

The album spent 41 weeks on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and peaked at No. 17 in early October 1984.

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Notable quotes

“Better is it for each one of us that he should avenge his friend, than greatly mourn. Each of us must expect an end of living in this world; let him who may win glory before death: for that is best at last for the departed warrior.”
— Beowulf, line 1385
“We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (1988)' Introduction, p. xi.
“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”
— Paulo Coelho, (1997)
“Love for distance and order, the ability to subordinate one's individualistic and passionate element to principles, the ability to take action and work above mere personhood, a feeling of dignity devoid of vanity are features of the true warrior spirit as essential those which refer to actual combat.”
— Julius Evola, Metaphysics of War [2007], pp. 114–115
“Warrior spirit is characterised by direct, clear and loyal relations, based on fidelity and honour and a sound instinct for the various dignities, which it can well distinguish: it opposes everything which is impersonal and trivial.”
— Julius Evola, Metaphysics of War [2007], p. 117
“The warrior is unique, he alone is the equal of many; Utu is unique, he alone is the equal of many. With your life you should always be on the side of the warrior; with your life you should always be on the side of Utu.”
— Šuruppak, Instructions of Shuruppak (3rd millennium BCE).

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