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Bananarama - Pop Life Audio CD

A fair review of the Bananarama "Pop Life" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bananarama reviews here, or go back to the Bananarama tabs.

Bananarama Band: Bananarama
Title: Pop Life
Rating:
Release Date: 2007-03-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Preacher Man 2: Long Train Running 3: Only Your Love 4: What Colour R the Skies Where U Live? 5: Is Your Love Strong Enough? 6: Tripping on Your Love 7: Ain't No Cure 8: Outta Sight 9: Megalomaniac 10: I Can't Let You Go 11: Heartless 12: Only Your Love [7" Mix][*] 13: Preacher Man [Alternative 7" Mix][*] 14: Megalomaniac [Edit][*] 15: Tripping on Your Love [Single Mix][*] 16: What Colour R the Skies Where U Live? [Jjagged Mix][*] 17: Ain't No Cure [Alternative Version][*]

She's not your Sister anymore, Siobhan is Shakespears
And you can see that the hole left behind wasn't just a voice but a writer. I so miss Siobhan Fahey on this lp. There are several remakes and remixes that are very good, but I don't know if all of them would have been on "Pop Life" had Fahey stayed.
But again, the songs (remakes or otherwise)& the vocals are very strong and they stay with you. 5 stars, though the 5th is flickering. .


The girls' later CDs don't get a very good selection of bonus tracks
In actuality, they could have released probably 3 CDs for each disc to fit all the remixes that were spawned from these releases. Both Pop Life and Please Yourself suffer from a really lame selection of bonus tracks. Instead of getting some 'alternate 7" mixes' of the singles here, we could have been treated to the bevy of 12" mixes of "only your love", "preacher man", "long train runnin" and "trippin on your love. " Not to mention, this reissue has removed the bonus track "Preacher Man (Ramabanana Alternative Mix)" that was on the original pressing of the CD!!! The only real surprise here is the long version of What Colour R The Skies Where U Live?.


Come back Siobhan, Sarah and Keren are talented!
The only thing I do not like about the album is that Jacqui O'Sullivan, I am sure she is a nice lady, but she never belonged in Bananarama. Pop Life is an excellent album, especially Preacher Man, Long Train Running, and Only Your Love. Keren Woodward and Sarah Dallin are so talented and beautiful. It would be so awesome if Siobhan Fahey reunited with them and made new albums as a trio the way it was meant to be, it would mean so much to fans around the world. The truth is Keren and Sarah alone make excellent albums, that last release Drama was the best work they have done ever. Pop Life is right up there too, it gets an A. .


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