Heat Generation

{{Refimprove|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Heat Generation | type = studio | artist = the Radiators | cover = Radiators Heat Generation Album.jpg | alt = | released = 1981 | recorded = Ultrasonic, New Orleans, Louisiana | venue = | studio = | genre = Swamp rock | length = 38:31 | label = Croaker | producer = Bill Cat, the Radiators | prev_title = Work Done on Premises | prev_year = 1980 | next_title = Law of the Fish | next_year = 1987 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} <ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r16024}}</ref> | rev2 = | rev2Score = }} '''''Heat Generation''''' is the second album and first studio album from the Radiators.

==Overview==

Four years after they formed and a year after their first album, the Radiators entered a studio for the first time to create ''Heat Generation''. It flopped and they gave up making albums for five years, until they signed with Epic Records.

==Track listing== {{track listing | total_length = 38:31 | all_writing = Ed Volker, who collaborated on the title track. | title1 = Jigsaw | length1 = 4:50 | title2 = Cocktail Music | length2 = 3:57 | title3 = Automatic | length3 = 3:58 | title4 = Smokin' Hole | length4 = 4:07 | title5 = Heat Generation | writer5 = Ed Volker; Camile Baudoin; Frank Bua Jr.; Dave Malone; Reggie Scanlan | length5 = 1:53 | title6 = Nail Your Heart to Mine | length6 = 4:40 | title7 = Sunglasses On | length7 = 2:30 | title8 = Shoot Out the Lights | length8 = 3:38 | title9 = Gimme a Rainbow That's for Real | length9 = 5:13 | title10 = Monkey in Her Heart | length10 = 3:45 }}

{{Track listing | headline = 2007 reissue bonus tracks | total_length = 44:37 | title11 = If Your Heart Ain't in It | length11 = 2:45 | title12 = Hard to Tell | length12 = 3:21 }}

==Credits==

* Camile Baudoin — Guitars and Vocals * Dave Malone — Guitars and Vocals * Frank Bua — Drums and percussion * Reggie Scanlan — bass and cowbell * Ed Volker — keyboards, Vocals and Percussion * Bill Cat — producer * The Radiators — Producer

==References== <references/>

Category:The Radiators (American band) albums Category:1981 albums