# Heat Generation

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Heat Generation
| type       = studio
| artist     = [the Radiators](/source/The_Radiators_(US))
| cover      = Radiators Heat Generation Album.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1981
| recorded   = [Ultrasonic](/source/Ultrasonic_Studios%2C_New_Orleans), [New Orleans, Louisiana](/source/New_Orleans%2C_Louisiana)
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Swamp rock](/source/Swamp_rock)
| length     = 38:31
| label      = Croaker
| producer   = Bill Cat, the Radiators
| prev_title = [Work Done on Premises](/source/Work_Done_on_Premises)
| prev_year  = 1980
| next_title = [Law of the Fish](/source/Law_of_the_Fish)
| next_year  = 1987
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [AllMusic](/source/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](/source/The_Radiators_(US)).

==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](/source/Epic_Records).

==Track listing==
{{track listing
| total_length     = 38:31
| all_writing      = [Ed Volker](/source/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](/source/Camile_Baudoin); [Frank Bua Jr.](/source/Frank_Bua_Jr.); [Dave Malone](/source/Dave_Malone); [Reggie Scanlan](/source/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](/source/Camile_Baudoin) — [Guitar](/source/Guitar)s and [Vocals](/source/Vocals)
* [Dave Malone](/source/Dave_Malone) — Guitars and Vocals
* Frank Bua — [Drum](/source/Drum)s and [percussion](/source/Percussion_instrument)
* [Reggie Scanlan](/source/Reggie_Scanlan) — [bass](/source/Bass_guitar) and [cowbell](/source/Cowbell_(instrument))
* [Ed Volker](/source/Ed_Volker) — [keyboards](/source/Keyboard_instrument), Vocals and Percussion
* Bill Cat — [producer](/source/Record_producer)
* [The Radiators](/source/The_Radiators_(US)) — Producer

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

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