Editing No Fun Aloud

{{Infobox album
| name       = No Fun Aloud
| type       = [[Studio album]]
| artist     = [[Glenn Frey]]
| cover      = GlennFreyNoFunAloud.jpg
| border     = yes
| alt        =
| released   = June 1982<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/252/mode/2up?q=Eagles|title=Great Rock Discography|page=253}}</ref>
| recorded   = Early Fall, 1981 – Spring, 1982
| venue      =
| studio     = Wilder Bros. Studios and Rudy Records, Los Angeles, [[Muscle Shoals Sound Studio|Muscle Shoals Sound, Sheffield, Alabama]], Bayshore Recording Studio, Miami
| genre      = {{flatlist|
* [[Rock music|Rock]]
* [[pop rock]]
* [[soft rock]]
}}
| length     = 39:21
| label      = [[Asylum Records|Asylum]]
| producer   = {{flatlist|
* [[Glenn Frey]]
* [[Allan Blazek]]
* [[Jim Ed Norman]]
}}
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[The Allnighter (album)|The Allnighter]]
| next_year  = 1984
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/no-fun-aloud-mw0000311674|title=No Fun Aloud - Glenn Frey &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev2score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=3 |page=610}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]''
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=372}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev5score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=265}}</ref>
}}
'''''No Fun Aloud''''' is the debut solo studio album by [[Glenn Frey]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/01/glenn-freys-80s/424671/|title=An Appreciation of Glenn Frey's Glorious '80s Songs|first=Spencer|last=Kornhaber|date=January 19, 2016|website=The Atlantic}}</ref> It was released in [[1982 in music|1982]] on [[Asylum Records|Asylum]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/glenn-frey-mn0000657041/biography|title=Glenn Frey &#124; Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref>

The album reached #32 on the charts and contained two top 40 singles, "[[The One You Love (Glenn Frey song)|The One You Love]]" and "I Found Somebody".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/glenn-frey/chart-history/tlp/|title=Glenn Frey|website=Billboard}}</ref> The album was certified [[Gold certification|Gold]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA), selling over 500,000 copies in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Berry |first1=Walter |title=FORMER EAGLE GLENN FREY PREPARING FOR NEW TOUR |journal=Orlando Sentinel |date=14 July 1985 |page=Calendar 6}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
[[AllMusic]] critic Mike DeGagne wrote that "it's Frey's perfectly guided vocals and impeccable talent for crafting laid-back love songs that make[s] the album noteworthy ... With Frey's own production assistance, ''No Fun Aloud'' stands up as a modest debut album."<ref name="auto"/> ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' called ''No Fun Aloud'' "a predictably slick solo debut in [Frey's] old band's party-boy mode."<ref name=RS/> ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' called it "remarkably uninspired and joyless," writing that "by and large, the songs are of the John David Souther school of no-melody dirge—the type of thing that gives California music a bad name."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Niester |first1=Alan |title=INSIDE THE SLEEVE POP No Fun Aloud Glenn Frey |journal=The Globe and Mail |date=19 June 1982 |page=F6}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' deemed it "an agreeable, well-crafted little record."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |title=GIVING A LIFT TO LOS ANGELES ROCK |journal=The New York Times |date=13 June 1982 |page=A33}}</ref>

==Track listing==
All songs by [[Glenn Frey]] and [[Jack Tempchin]], except where noted.
{{Track listing
| title1   = I Found Somebody
| length1  = 4:05
| title2   = [[The One You Love (Glenn Frey song)|The One You Love]]
| length2  = 4:34
| title3   = Partytown
| length3  = 2:57
| title4   = I Volunteer
| length4  = 4:06
| writer4    = [[Jack Tempchin]], Bill Bodine
| title5   = I've Been Born Again
| length5  = 4:36
| writer5    = [[Don Davis (record producer)|Don Davis]], [[James Dean (songwriter)|James Dean]]
| title6   = [[Sea Cruise]]
| length6  = 2:36
| writer6    = [[Huey "Piano" Smith]], [[Johnny Vincent]]
| title7   = That Girl
| length7  = 3:41
| writer7    = Glenn Frey, [[Bob Seger]]
| title8   = All Those Lies
| length8  = 4:43
| writer8    = Glenn Frey
| title9   = She Can't Let Go 
| length9  = 3:11
| title10  = Don't Give Up
| length10 = 4:48
| total_length = 39:21
}}

== Personnel ==
{{Div col}}
* Glenn Frey – vocals, [[Electric organ|organ]] (1), lead guitar (1, 3, 4, 8), electric piano (2, 5, 7, 8), guitars (2, 5, 10), bass (2, 9), drum machine programming (2, 9), acoustic piano (3), backing vocals (4, 10), all other instruments (9), [[clavinet]] (10), synthesizers (10)
* [[Hawk Wolinski|David "Hawk" Wolinski]] – synthesizers (1, 10), organ (4, 6-8)
* Clayton Ivey – acoustic piano (6)
* [[Allan Blazek]] – additional keyboards (10)
* [[Josh Leo]] – guitars (1, 3)
* [[Danny Kortchmar]] – guitars (4)
* Duncan Cameron – electric guitar (6-8)
* [[Wayne Perkins]] – acoustic guitar (7)
* Bryan Garofalo – bass (1)
* [[Bob Glaub]] – bass (3, 5, 10)
* Roberto Piñón – bass (4)
* [[David Hood]] – bass (6-8)
* [[Michael Huey (musician)|Michael Huey]] – drums (1, 3, 4, 10)
* [[John Robinson (drummer)|John Robinson]] – drums (5)
* [[Roger Hawkins (drummer)|Roger Hawkins]] – drums (6-8), [[bell]]s (7, 8)
* Steve Forman – percussion (5, 9)
* Al Garth – tenor saxophone (1)
* [[Jim Horn]] – tenor saxophone (2)
* [[Ernie Watts]] – saxophone (2)
* The Heart Attack Horns (5):
** Jim Coile – alto saxophone
** [[Greg Smith (American musician)|Greg Smith]] – baritone saxophone
** Bill Bergman – tenor saxophone
** John Berry, Jr. – trumpet
** Lee Thornburg – trumpet, horn arrangements
* Ronnie Eades – saxophone (6)
* Harvey Thompson – saxophone (6)
* [[Jim Ed Norman]] – string arrangements (2, 7), horn arrangements (5)
* The Monstertones – backing vocals (3)
* [[Marcy Levy]] – backing vocals (4)
* [[Bill Champlin]] – backing vocals (4)
* [[Tom Kelly (musician)|Tom Kelly]] – backing vocals (4)
* Julia Waters – backing vocals (8, 10)
* Maxine Waters – backing vocals (8, 10)
* [[Oren Waters]] – backing vocals (8, 10)
{{Div col end}}

==Production==
* Producers – Glenn Frey, Allan Blazek and Jim Ed Norman.
* Recorded by The Wlider Brothers
* Engineers – Allan Blazek and Steve Melton
* Assistant Engineers – Ray Blair, Glenn Frey, George Gomez, Ben King, Mary Beth McLemore and Jay Parti.
* Mixed by Allan Blazek at Bayshore Recording Studios (Coconut Grove, FL).
* Art Direction and Design – Jeff Adamoff
* Photography – Jim Shea
* Direction – [[Irving Azoff]]

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Chart (1982)
! Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kent |first=David |title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]] |publisher=Australian Chart Book |year=1993 |isbn=0-646-11917-6 |location=St Ives, New South Wales |author-link=David Kent (historian)}}</ref>
| 44
|-
{{album chart|Netherlands|34|artist=Glenn Frey|album=No Fun Aloud|access-date=June 6, 2024|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|39|artist=Glenn Frey|album=No Fun Aloud|access-date=June 6, 2024|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|32|artist=Glenn Frey|access-date=June 6, 2024|rowheader=true}}
|}

==Certifications==
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{{certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=Glenn Frey|title=No Fun Aloud|award=Gold|relyear=1982|certyear=1982}}
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== References ==
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