Victims of the Age is the title of an album by Mark Heard

Mark Heard

John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....

, released in 1982 on Home Sweet Home Records

Home Sweet Home Records

Home Sweet Home Records is a record label, based in Dallas, Texas.Home Sweet Home was founded in 1981, in Nashville, Tennessee, by Grammy Award-winning producer and singer-songwriter Chris Christian...

. This album was listed at #32 in the book CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music

CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music

CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music is the title of a book, edited by Thom Granger and published in 2001 by Harvest House Publishers....

(Harvest House Publishers, 2001).

"Heart of Hearts" later became a hit on Christian Radio when it was covered by Leslie Phillips

Sam Phillips (singer)

Leslie Ann Phillips, aka Sam Phillips is an American singer and a songwriter.-Biography:Phillips was born in Glendale, California. She began her musical career as a vocalist in the early 1980s, singing background parts for Christian artists Mark Heard, Randy Stonehill and others...

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Side one

1. "Victims of the Age"
2. "City Life Won't Let Up"
3. "Faces in Cabs"
4. "Nothing is Bothering Me"

Side two

1. "Some Folks' World"
2. "Growing Up Blind"
3. "Dancing at the Policeman's Ball"
4. "Everybody Loves a Holy War"
5. "Heart of Hearts"

The band

• Mark Heard
  Mark Heard
  John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....
  
  : electric 6- and 12-string guitars, electric lead and slide guitars, vocals, percussion, harmonica, accordion, mandolin
• John Mehler
  John Mehler
  John Mehler, born August 27, 1948 in Long Beach, California, drummer for Love Song, Spirit of Creation, Noah and other bands. John graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1969 and soon thereafter moved to Salt Lake City with two musician friends, Chuck Fraher and Jay Truax to form Spirit of...
  
  : drums
• Bill Batstone
  Bill Batstone
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  : bass guitar
• Carl Pickhardt: keyboards
• Tom Howard
  Tom Howard (musician)
  Tom Howard was an American pianist, musical arranger and orchestral conductor.In 1983, Howard helped the rock band Daniel Amos form the Alarma! Records label....
  
  : keyboards
• Harry Stinson: tambourine, shaker
• Background vocals: Mark Heard, Larry Norman
  Larry Norman
  Larry David Norman was an American Christian musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer, who worked with Christian rock music...
  
  , Leslie Phillips and, Bill Batstone.

Production notes

• Engineered by Mark Heard, Bill Cobb, Janet Sue Heard
• Recorded January-February 1982 at Poiema Studio, Camarillo, California
  Camarillo, California
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  , and at The Gold Mine, Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
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• Mixed by Mark Heard at Wilder Brothers Studios, West Los Angeles
• Mastered at A&M by Bernie Grundman
• Cover design by Mark Heard
• Photographs by Janet Sue Heard

"Thanks to Bill and Marsha, John and Linda, Billy, Guy (#8) Denton, Linda at Laursens, Chris and Shanon, Daryl and Dawn, Tom and Dori, Jonathan, and the Benson folks. Love to the Circle of Cynics, Pat and Pam Terry, the Strat Brothers. Chuck and Sandra Perefit, Jon and Diane, Jean and the Screaming Cheese Band in Zurich, the L'Abri

L'Abri

L'Abri is an evangelical Christian organization founded by Francis Schaeffer and his wife Edith in Huémoz-sur-Ollon, Switzerland on June 5, 1955. They opened their alpine home as a ministry to curious travellers and as a forum to discuss philosophical and religious beliefs.- The development of...

folks in Huemoz and Chesieres, Calhoun, Peter and Becky, and my folks."