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Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Liverpool Audio CD

A fair review of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Liverpool" 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 Frankie Goes to Hollywood reviews here, or go back to the Frankie Goes to Hollywood tabs.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood Band: Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Title: Liverpool
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Release Date: 2000-08-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Warriors of Wasteland 2: Rage Hard 3: Kill the Pain 4: Maximum Joy 5: Watching the Wildlife 6: Lunar Bay 7: For Heaven's Sake 8: Is Anybody Out There? 9: (Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind [*] 10: Suffragette City [*]

Worth Another Look
FGTH made much more of a splash and had most of their commercial success with 1984's "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome," but the band came apart so quickly that many people didn't notice this 1986 effort. This album got short shrift once upon a long ago. That's a shame, because this is a very good album. It's far more straightforward then "Pleasure Dome;" there's none of the extra-long or extra-short tracks or crazy intros and interludes that laced the first album together. The concept here focuses in from the hedonistic and apocalyptic overtones of "Dome" to the nature of man in the modern world. And `focus' is a key word; whereas the first album was all over the place stylistically, this is just eight tight, well-crafted songs with an alternative-pop sheen provided by producers Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn. If you enjoyed "Relax" and "Two Tribes" but never gave this album a chance, you might want to reconsider. This price is a bit steep, but the Bowie cover that's been added as a bonus track just about makes it worth it.


He's not dead, he's only resting
Holly is not only alive and well, but he's as snitty as he ever was -- after leading everyone on for a week or two he declined to perform in the reunion at literally the last minute, leaving Mark, Paul, Nasher and Ped standing around in the studio. VH-1 tried to get FGTH back together in the first series of "Bands Reunited" in early 2004. I've always felt that Liverpool was unjustly overshadowed by the chaos in the band around the time of its release. There's nowhere near as much fluff as on Pleasuredome and some of the non-single tracks are just brilliant. Steve Lipson produced the hell out of this album and as a result it rewards deep listening by fans of the all-out ZTT production sound.


Reunite Again..............
The lead singer is dead. Maybe in another world.
Liverpool is one of their best. Especiall y the song rage hard.


How Cool Is This?
Though I could have done without the four cover tracks though. I wished Frankie Goes To Hollywood had made more albums! I liked Welcome To The Pleasuredome a lot.

This is a decent follow up though. Maximum Joy is my favorite of the bunch. Rage Hard and Warriors I can do without. It is nowhere near as cool as Pleasuredome but it is still fun.

Holly and the boys need to reunite for a third album! The 80's are cool again these days. We need them in the rock and roll wasteland of today. Frankie say, no more.


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