Why do you think it is always in the sales? It's terrible! (Liverpool - Frankie Goes To Hollywood)

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Product:	Liverpool - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Date:	29/05/01 (40 review reads)
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Advantages: It soon ends

Disadvantages: I bought the bloody thing

Frankie's first album "Welcome To The Pleasure Dome" was always going to be a tough thing to follow. Internal politics at the record company (ZTT) and the fact that three members of ZTT's 'house' band (The Art Of Noise) had quit meant the Frankie's would never sound the same again as basically, the band couldn't play a note to save their own lives. The production of "Liverpool" was passed over to Steve Lipson as Trevor Horn wanted to turn them into an "ordinary" rock band and was always "unavailable" to work with the band. The result is what we have here: "Liverpool" - eight tracks of bland, soft rock music that has none of the ground-breaking, dynamic material that could be even be remotely identified with the original Frankie output. People seem to think that the likes of pop-shysters "Take That" were amongst the first "manufacteured" bands, were they weren't and although there were earlier ones, with the possable exception of that pile of shite called "Hear Say", Frankie Goes To Hollywood were THE manufacteured band of all time.

Now, with that bloody long-winded introduction out of the way, park arse and read what the album was about...

"Warriors Of The Wasteland" - mostly performed by producer Steve Lipson, "Warriors" is almost metal and if they had a decent singer (sorry, Holly, you can't sing rock) for this type of song, it would have got higher than lingering around the thirties mark in the charts. Proberbly the best song off this short album.

"Rage Hard" - the first of three singles to stem from this album. Although there is a rare heavy metal version of this song somewhere, this weak rock song only got as high in the charts due to typical ZTT hype (thanks to Paul Morley). Otherwise, this should have only got as far as the lower seventies.

"Watching The Wildlife" is
the third and last ever Frankie single to be released (not counting the reissues every year or so). So weak and lacklustre that it should never have been issued as a single. So out of place in comparrison to the other singles but sits in well with the other pap that pads this album out.

The album fillers ("Kill The Pain", "Maximum Joy", "Lunar Bay", "For Heaven's Sake", "Is Anyone Out There?") do not warrent my fingers tapping away on my keyboard as they are so dire the only thing going for them is that they are short in length, that is, if you must listen to it. Whilst I abhore all those "Greatest Hits" collections as they are an underhand way of getting people to buy the same product twice in many cases, I'd suggest a Frankie Compilation instead of this crappy offering. Why do you think it is always in the sales and chuck out bins in record shops?

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