Ear Candy (King's X album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Ear Candy
| type = studio
| artist = King's X
| cover = King's X Ear Candy.jpg
| alt =
| released = May 20, 1996
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Hard rock
| length = 49:18
| label = Atlantic
| producer = Arnold Lanni, King's X
| prev_title = Dogman
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title = Best of King's X
| next_year = 1997
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r234837|label=Ear Candy – King's X|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine|accessdate=16 May 2012}}
|rev2=CCM Magazine
|rev2Score=(not rated){{cite journal |last=Selby |first=Derek Scott |date=August 1996 |title=Reviews / Ear Candy |journal=CCM Magazine |issn=1524-7848 |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=64, 67 }}
| rev3 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
| rev3score = 10/10{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |year=2007 |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=228}}
|rev4=Entertainment Weekly
|rev4Score=A-{{cite magazine|last=Sinclair|first=Tom|title=Ear Candy Review|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,292977,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011110528/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,292977,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 11, 2008|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|accessdate=May 16, 2012|format=June 14, 1996|date=June 14, 1996}}
|rev5=Q
|rev5Score= {{Rating|3|5}}{{Citation| title=Ear Candy review |newspaper = Q| date = August 1996| page = 121}}
}}
Ear Candy is the sixth studio album by American rock band King's X, released in 1996. It was produced by Arnold Lanni and King's X.
The album has two songs which are rewritten versions of earlier songs: "Picture" is also known as "The Door", a song with different lyrics, released on their pre-King's X release Sneak Preview. The song "Mississippi Moon" is mainly inspired on the song "If I Could Fly", which King's X played in shows after they had changed their name to its definite version, King's X.
The bonus track "Freedom" can also be found as a b-side of the single "A Box". It was later given a proper release on the album Ogre Tones.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| all_writing = Doug Pinnick, Ty Tabor and Jerry Gaskill
| title1 = The Train
| length1 = 3:06
| extra1 = Ty Tabor/Doug Pinnick
| title2 = (Thinking and Wondering) What I'm Gonna Do
| length2 = 3:43
| extra2 = Pinnick
| title3 = Sometime
| length3 = 3:48
| extra3 = Pinnick
| title4 = A Box
| length4 = 4:40
| extra4 = Pinnick
| title5 = Looking for Love
| length5 = 2:59
| extra5 = Pinnick
| title6 = Mississippi Moon
| length6 = 3:11
| extra6 = Tabor
| title7 = 67
| length7 = 4:42
| extra7 = Pinnick
| title8 = Lies in the Sand (The Ballad of...)
| length8 = 3:53
| extra8 = Tabor
| title9 = Run
| length9 = 3:28
| extra9 = Pinnick
| title10 = Fathers
| length10 = 3:21
| extra10 = Pinnick
| title11 = American Cheese (Jerry's Pianto)
| length11 = 2:54
| extra11 = Jerry Gaskill
| title12 = Picture
| length12 = 5:35
| extra12 = Pinnick
| title13 = Life Going By
| length13 = 4:04
| extra13 = Tabor
| total_length = 49:18
}}
{{track listing
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| headline = Japanese edition bonus track
| title14 = Freedom
| length14 = 3:33
| extra14 = Tabor
}}
Personnel
- Doug Pinnick – bass, vocals
- Ty Tabor – guitar, vocals
- Jerry Gaskill – drums, vocals
Album notes
- This would be the last studio album King's X would release on Atlantic Records.
- "American Cheese (Jerry's Pianto)" is the second released song to feature Jerry Gaskill on lead vocals. The term pianto is a made-up word and is meant as a joke.
- "American Cheese (Jerry's Pianto)" and "Lies in the Sand (The Ballad of...)" produced by Ty Tabor and King's X.
- "A Box" features additional vocals by Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket.
- "Sometime" is not to be confused with "Sometimes", which is taken from King's X's first album Out of the Silent Planet.