Album · Hugh Cornwell
Wolf by Hugh Cornwell
Wolf is an album by Hugh Cornwell, released in 1988. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Another Kind of Love”, on 1 list with a best position of #55.
Wolf was Hugh Cornwell's first solo album, released on Virgin in June 1988 while he was still singing and playing guitar in the Stranglers, and it finds him trading that band's snarl for slicker, danceable pop. He produced it with Ian Ritchie, with Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley adding production on two tracks, and the cast list is long: Jools Holland and Simon Clark on keyboards, Graham Broad and Manny Elias on drums, a brass section of Don Weller, Pete Thoms, Steve Dawson and Alex Gifford, singer Haywoode and guitarist Gus Isadore.
The critics weren't buying it. Ira Robbins in the Trouser Press Record Guides dismissed it as lightweight dance-pop with nothing the Stranglers couldn't have managed, and The Encyclopedia of Popular Music was just as unkind. The album never charted, but "Another Kind of Love", released as a single that September, made it to No. 11 on the US Alternative chart, helped along by a video from the surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Wolf on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another Kind of Love | 1 | #55 | – | 1988 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.