Words from the Front

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r21214}}

| rev2 = American Songwriter

| rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/tom-verlaine-dreamtime-words-from-the-front/|title=TOM VERLAINE > Dreamtime & Words from the Front|website=American Songwriter|date=27 October 2008 }}

| rev3 = The Austin Chronicle

| rev3score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2008-12-19/717782/|title=Dreamtime, and Words From the Front (Collectors' Choice Music)

|website=The Austin Chronicle}}

|rev5 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}

| rev6 = OndaRock

| rev6score = 6/10{{cite web|url=https://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/television.htm|title=Television|language=it|website=OndaRock}}

| rev4 = Christgau's Record Guide

| rev4score = B+{{cite book |chapter=Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime |chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=3991 |access-date=November 15, 2016 |title=Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s |title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |publisher=Pantheon Books |year=1990 |isbn=0-679-73015-X}}

| rev7 = Popmatters

| rev7score = {{rating|7|10}}{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/tom-verlaine-dreamtime-words-from-the-front-2496118784.html|title=Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime / Words from the Front|website=Popmatters|date=22 September 2008 }}

| rev8 = Rolling Stone

| rev8Score = {{Rating|4|5}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080320014932/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/104032/review/5940636/wordsfromthefront Rollingstone] Rolling Stone review

| rev9 = (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev9score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite book |chapter=Tom Verlaine |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |title=(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/848 848–49]}}

|rev10 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

|rev10score = 5/10{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |page=398}}

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The Globe and Mail wrote that Verlaine's "shadowy, intense vignettes do cast a kind of spell, but there are few new developments here in the territory he has already mastered."{{cite news |last1=Lacey |first1=Liam |title=Words from the Front Tom Verlaine |work=The Globe and Mail |date=26 June 1982 |page=F6}} The Boston Phoenix said that Words from the Front "is probably Verlaine’s weakest album, but it holds up."{{cite news |last1=Piccarella |first1=John |title=Season in Hell: Tom Verlaine dreams on |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1982-07-06_11_27/page/n67/mode/1up |access-date=4 September 2024 |work=The Boston Phoenix |date=6 July 1982}}

Words from the Front was ranked among the top fifty "Albums of the Year" for 1982 by NME.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/1982-2-1045396 |title=Albums and Tracks of the Year |author= |date=2016 |publisher=NME |accessdate=6 November 2016 }}

All songs written by Tom Verlaine

1. "Present Arrived" – 5:17
2. "Postcard from Waterloo" – 3:32
3. "True Story" – 5:25
4. "Clear It Away" – 4:11

1. "Words from the Front" – 6:42
2. "Coming Apart" – 2:59
3. "Days on the Mountain" – 8:55

• Tom Verlaine – guitars, vocals
• Thommy Price – drums
• Jimmy Ripp – guitars
• Joe Vasta - bass

; Additional personnel

• Fred Smith – bass on "Clear It Away"
• Jay Dee Daugherty – drums on "Clear It Away"
• Allan Schwartzberg – drums on "Days on the Mountain"
• Lene Lovich – saxophone on "Days on the Mountain", vocals on "Postcard from Waterloo"

;Technical

• Dave Jerden - mixing
• Michael Ewasko - engineer
• Rich Mahon - illustration
• Howard Rosenberg - photography

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