UFO "Obsession (Japan, Toshiba-EMI Ltd., TOCP-7201)"

Obsession is the seventh studio album by English rock band UFO, released in 1978. This was the final studio album to feature Michael Schenker on lead guitar until he returned to the band in 1993. A single from the album, "Only You Can Rock Me" / "Cherry", was also released in 1978. So too was the band's first three-track EP "Only You Can Rock Me", "Cherry" / "Rock Bottom", reaching No. 50 in the UK. The album was recorded at an abandoned post office in Los Angeles.

EMI's 2008 remastered edition includes three bonus live tracks, and also some writing credits are corrected.

Reviewing the LP in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "I've admired their forward motion and facile riffs, so it's my duty to report that they've degenerated into the usual exhibitionism. Theme song: 'Lookin' Out for No. 1,' a turn of phrase that's becoming as much of a watchword in late '70s rock as 'get together' was in the late '60s."

Track listing

1. "Only You Can Rock Me" Pete Way, Michael Schenker, Phil Mogg 4:08
2. "Pack It Up (And Go)" Way, Schenker, Mogg 3:14
3. "Arbory Hill" Schenker 1:11
4. "Ain't No Baby" Mogg, Paul Raymond 3:58
5. "Lookin' Out for No. 1" Mogg, Raymond 4:34
6. "Hot 'n' Ready" Schenker, Mogg 3:16
7. "Cherry" Way, Mogg 3:34
8. "You Don't Fool Me" Raymond, Andy Parker, Mogg 3:23
9. "Lookin' Out for No. 1" (reprise) Schenker, Raymond 1:14
10. "One More for the Rodeo" Way, Mogg 3:45
11. "Born to Lose" Schenker, Mogg, Raymond 3:31

Total length: 35:59

Production

Ron Nevison – producer

Mike Clink – assistant engineer

Alan McMillan – conductor, string arrangements, string conductor

Hipgnosis – cover art