''Revenge'' is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter

Janis Ian Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child, Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)" an ...

, released in 1995. Like her preceding comeback album '' Breaking Silence'', it was recorded in

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, where Ian had been living since 1988. The title was intended as a riposte against the major record labels who had dropped her permanently after her past few albums had failed to sell in substantial numbers. Despite this, Janis and co-producer John Jennings hired what she considered her “dream band” for the sessions, and when ''Revenge'' was completed Janis considered it the most commercial album she had ever recorded. It included one song co-written with Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes. ''Revenge'' was originally released as the first album on a new Los Angeles independent label called Beacon Records; however, the project collapsed soon after the album came out, and the album would be put out by a variety of labels, amongst them her old Columbia and

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. The album was not as well received critically as ''Breaking Silence'', although "Stolen Fire", "Take No Prisoners", "Take Me Walking in the Rain", " "Berlin" and "Ruby" would all appear on subsequent live albums and career-spanning compilations. Closing track "When Angels Cry" was sung in some episodes of the soap opera ''

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Track listing

References

{{Authority control Janis Ian albums 1995 albums