The song peaked at number 26 on the Hot 100 chart and at number 3 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart while reaching number 25 in Canada. The song become a minor hit at its time of release. " Hearts on Fire" was the second single from Into the Fire. "Heat of the Night" was eventually nominated for a Canadian Juno Award for Single of the Year in 1987. "Heat of the Night" was released the following month in the UK and peaked in the top 50 on the UK Singles Chart at 50, and was Adams' only single from Into the Fire to chart in mainland Europe. In Canada, the compact disc release became the first by a Canadian artist to earn a Gold certification (sales of 50,000 units), and only the second overall following Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. "Heat of the Night" reached number 7 on the Canadian singles chart and remained in the top ten for five weeks. In the US, the song ascended to number 2 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Heat of the Night" was the debut single from Into the Fire and was released worldwide in March 1987. Only "Hearts on Fire" met with Rivera's critical approval. Ī retrospective review from Eduardo Rivera at AllMusic characterized most of the album's songs as "lifeless and dull", with some even being called "depressing", "ugly" or "truly awful". Worse are the vague pro-Native American message of "Native Son" and the antiwar message of "Remembrance Day," the lyrics of which read like earnest but clumsy high-school poetry.
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"Adams shows that he has a will to speak but nothing in particular to say.a scan of the song titles ("Heat of the Night," "Only the Strong Survive," "Into the Fire" and so on) shows that the best Adams and co-writer Jim Vallance could come up with was a series of clichés. Steve Hochman of Rolling Stone Magazine expressed similar sentiments:
Robert Christgau knocked Into The Fire for its "dumbness density", noting that he counted "an astonishing fifty-six full-fledged clichés on what's supposed to be a significance move."
Vallance was up for the songwriting challenge of not repeating Reckless." Ĭritical reception was generally unfavourable, with the album's lyrics being particularly singled out as substandard. some were, let's say, slightly more exploratory than we'd written in the past. "I have to laugh when the press say that LP didn't do well because it did as well as Cuts Like a Knife, but I suppose the perception was it wasn't Reckless II! Who cares? There were some songs that were slightly different than what we had written before. That album had sold over 12 million in that context Into the Fire, which sold over 2 million copies worldwide at its time of release, was viewed as a commercial failure. Though commercially successful, peaking at number seven on the Billboard 200, the expectations for Into The Fire were set by the overwhelming success of Adams' previous number one hit album Reckless. The album was released on 30 March 1987 and featured the singles "Heat of the Night" and "Hearts on Fire". Adams says in the "Into the Fire" songbook that the album's title track refers to a man who is at a crossroads and does not quite know what to do with his life, which is how Adams felt when he started recording the album after the massive success of Reckless. A possible influence to the album was Adams' involvement of the six-city "Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope" tour in 1986. īy the time Into the Fire was completed, Adams and Vallance were satisfied with only two songs: The dark "Victim of Love" and the upbeat "Hearts on Fire". "Hearts on Fire" was mixed in London, England on 11 January. "Hearts on Fire" was originally written for Reckless in 1984, but was recorded on 1 September 1986. "Heat of the Night" was recorded 12 September 1986. The studio was named Cliffhanger since Adams' house was close to the sea. Adams and his backing band, which consisted of Keith Scott, Mickey Curry, Dave Taylor and Tommy Mandel, used the dining room, bathroom and bedroom to isolate the different instruments. It was recorded at a studio set up in Adams' home in Vancouver, British Columbia. The recording for Into the Fire started on 16 August 1986 and finished on 24 October. Six singles were released from the album: " Heat of the Night", " Hearts on Fire", "Victim of Love", "Only the Strong Survive", "Into the Fire" and "Another Day". Into the Fire peaked at number seven on the US Billboard 200 chart and reached the Top 10 in several other nations. It was released on 30 March 1987 by A&M Records as the follow-up album to the chart-topping Reckless (1984). Into the Fire is the fifth studio album by the Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams.