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No Stranger to Danger by The Payolas
No Stranger to Danger is an album by The Payolas, released in 1982. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 15 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Eyes of a Stranger”, on 15 lists with a best position of #92.
No Stranger to Danger, the second album from Vancouver's Payola$, came out on A&M in 1982, following In a Place Like This, with Mick Ronson in the producer's chair. The group's engine was always the same two men, singer and lyricist Paul Hyde and Bob Rock, the multi-instrumentalist who wrote alongside him, and here they catch the band mid-stride, one foot still in new wave's chilly angles and the other stepping toward big, clean pop-rock hooks.
"Eyes of a Stranger" is the prize, a moody, slow-burning single that went to number 4 in Canada while the album reached No. 5 there and finished 37th on the 1982 year-end chart. It also won the band four Juno Awards. For all that, it has never been issued on CD or as a download: vinyl and cassette are the only way to hear it whole, with "Romance" and "Eyes of a Stranger" turning up on compilations.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from No Stranger to Danger on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eyes of a Stranger | 15 | #92 | – | 1988–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.