Amore (The Hooters album)
Amore is the debut studio album by American rock band The Hooters, released in 1983. Background. The Hooters got their start with their independently released album "Amore". It cost $12,000 to record. The album sold over 100,000 copies, mostly in the Philadelphia area, and led to their major label record deal with Columbia Records in 1984. "Amore" introduced the original versions of four songs: "All You Zombies," "Hanging on a Heartbeat," "Fightin' on the Same Side," and "Blood from a Stone," which would reappear in different versions on later albums. In 2001, 18 years after  its original release on LP album and cassette, "Amore" was made available on compact disc and included two cover versions as bonus tracks: The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" from June 15, 1986, at A Conspiracy of Hope, a benefit concert on behalf of Amnesty International at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and The Skatalites' "Man in the Street," a live demo from the first Hooters recording session in 1980, which was also the band's first song to be played on the radio. Critical reception. "Trouser Press" wrote: "The Hooters’ easy facility in many stylistic  genres (reggae, the main impulse on "Amore", remains in the repertoire, along with glossed-up heartland rock versed in folk traditionalism) matches an inability to pin down any clear-cut personality." Track listing. 2001 CD release bonus songs: