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“Winter's Call” by Badlands
From the album Badlands (1989)
“Winter's Call” by Badlands appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1989 on the album Badlands. Its best result is #767 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,983 hard rock song of all time.
"Winter's Call" is a Ray Gillen and Jake E. Lee co-write from Badlands' self-titled 1989 debut, the record that reunited Gillen with drummer Eric Singer after the pair had played together in Black Sabbath. Gillen sings lead, Lee plays guitar and keyboards, Greg Chaisson is on bass and Singer on drums. The band produced it with Paul O'Neill, and James A. Ball engineered it and mixed it with David Thoener.
By 1990 the album had shifted 400,000 copies, going by what Chaisson told Hit Parader that year, and Rolling Stone ranked it 35th on its list of the 50 greatest hair metal albums.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 767 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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