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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Warriors of the 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? The Other Side Of Liverpool | |||
| 9. The Waves | |||
| 10. Pamela | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Rage Hard (Montreux mix) | |||
| 2. Warriors of the Wasteland (Montreux mix) | |||
| 3. Warriors Cassetted (featuring highlights from both the 7 and 12 single, Warriors of the Wasteland, the Twelve Wild Disciples mix and a Phenomenon of Megabytes) | |||
| 4. Wildlife Cassetted (featuring Orchestra Wildlife, Watching the Wildlife (hotter), The Waves, Bit 1, Bit 2 and The Frankie Condom Mix (for a wilder time) | |||
| 5. Our Silver Turns To Gold (monitor mix / Ibiza sessions / May 1985) | |||
| 6. Delirious (monitor mix / Ibiza sessions / May 1985) | |||
| 7. Stan | |||
| 8. For Heaven s Sake (monitor mix / Wisseloord sessions / March 1986) | |||
Product Description
DELUXE EDITION : 2CD set. Swansong 1986 album reissued with 18 rare BONUS tracks of B-sides, cover versions, alternate mixes and more! Includes reworkings of classics by David Bowie ; The Doors and The Rolling Stones.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The often ignored second and last FGTH album.
More of a straightforward album than "Pleasuredome" it delivers eight infectious rock/funk/disco tracks. Recorded at a time when the band were split in terms of musical ambition (Holly wanting more of a disco sound, The Lads wanting a rockier sound) the songs hold together surprisingly well and have a style of their own.
Some classics here : "Rage Hard", "Warriors Of The Wasteland" and the under-rated "Watching The Wildlife". The highlight for me has to be the beautiful closer "Is There Anyone Out There?"
a fitting swangsong from a much missed band.
More of a straightforward album than "Pleasuredome" it delivers eight infectious rock/funk/disco tracks. Recorded at a time when the band were split in terms of musical ambition (Holly wanting more of a disco sound, The Lads wanting a rockier sound) the songs hold together surprisingly well and have a style of their own.
Some classics here : "Rage Hard", "Warriors Of The Wasteland" and the under-rated "Watching The Wildlife". The highlight for me has to be the beautiful closer "Is There Anyone Out There?"
a fitting swangsong from a much missed band.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Liverpool was the second and indeed final album from the Scouse mid-80s megastars (even though much of their first album was played by session musicians).
This cut was lambasted by the critics upon it's release and it was never really going to get the tricky tag of 'the difficult second album syndrome' removed from it. It's certainly not up there with FGTH's epic double-album Welcome To The Pleasuredome from 1984, but it most definately has its moments, not least in the hit singles Rage Hard, Warriors of the Wasteland and the album's key moment, the brilliantly subtle Watching The Wildlife, which is worth the price of admission alone. These single cuts don't really compare with the band's era-defining 1983-1984 releases such as Relax, Two Tribes and The Power of Love, but they are worthy songs/tunes in their own right.
The band went their separate ways after this unfortunately ill-fated venture into second album territory (Holly Johnson enjoyed some shortlived solo success in 1989-1990) but this was a lot stronger than what most of their contemporaries (the rapidly fading former New Romantic bands who were quickly reverting to the 'big hair' look) were producing back then, that's for sure.
Not that bad at all, and well worth a look.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Many people don't remember the second Frankie Goes to Hollywood album, which isn't surprising as it could never live up to the hype and success of Welcome to the Pleasuredome. Signs for the album were good before release - Rage Hard, the first single, was classic overblown bombastic Frankie, even though it stalled at number 4 in the singles chart, and then.... well, actually quite a good album appeared. Warriors is Frankie doing heavy metal, Is There Somebody Out There is every bit as good as 1984's The Power of Love, and Lunar Bay, with its driving rhythms, has echoes of the title track of Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
Forward 25 years, and the album has aged well. This anniversary edition contains the original 8 tracks remastered, and the normal variety of B-sides and rare tracks that are customary on this sort of re-release. This is where things fall down slightly, and why I have only given this 4 stars. Most serious Frankie fans will already have just about everything included in the extras, which includes the CD/cassetted mixes of Warriors and Watching the Wildlife, which are pretty hard to get hold of these days. However, things on this second disk are quite patchy. 'Waves', the B-side to Watching The Wildlife, is touted as the last song Frankie recorded, but frankly isn't very good; and, frankly, an instrumental version of Rage Hard just isn't very exciting. I'm sure there were more interesting things to be found in the archives.
The typically pompous sleeve notes almost bring this back up to five stars, but four stars it is - great album, not quite so great extras, and a welcome celebration of the fact that Frankie were more than just a few T-shirts and the three number one singles.
Forward 25 years, and the album has aged well. This anniversary edition contains the original 8 tracks remastered, and the normal variety of B-sides and rare tracks that are customary on this sort of re-release. This is where things fall down slightly, and why I have only given this 4 stars. Most serious Frankie fans will already have just about everything included in the extras, which includes the CD/cassetted mixes of Warriors and Watching the Wildlife, which are pretty hard to get hold of these days. However, things on this second disk are quite patchy. 'Waves', the B-side to Watching The Wildlife, is touted as the last song Frankie recorded, but frankly isn't very good; and, frankly, an instrumental version of Rage Hard just isn't very exciting. I'm sure there were more interesting things to be found in the archives.
The typically pompous sleeve notes almost bring this back up to five stars, but four stars it is - great album, not quite so great extras, and a welcome celebration of the fact that Frankie were more than just a few T-shirts and the three number one singles.
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Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful
Criminally over-looked and slated when it first came out- for what one can only think of as bitchy reasons on the part of a British music press that was at the height of being so... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Zip Domingo
Good value!
If you already have the standard edition of this album, as I had, you're probably most interested in the bonus mateial. Read more
Published 9 months ago by S. Bach
Great reissue
I love Frankie!! Plain and simple.
All the extras (especially the remixes) on the cd are worth the Price of admission.
Enough said.
All the extras (especially the remixes) on the cd are worth the Price of admission.
Enough said.
Published 10 months ago by Randall Warren
Great album
This album deserves more credit...just because Frankie Goes to Hollywood's second album did not set the world on fire like their debut.. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2009 by P. Elliott
Actually rather good.
The first album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome had the title track, Relax, Two Tribes and The Power of love, all of them massive hits. Read more
Published on 18 July 2008 by T. J. Stickland
Not as Bad As You'd Been Led To Believe
Although it doesn't have the history behind it of WTTP, Liverpool has plenty to recommend it. In particular, Warriors Of The Wasteland is a fine left-wing anthem, whilst Rage Hard... Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2002
Superb.
Although a long time defunct "the lads" can still touch you with the music which may have been over produced "britpop" but was certainly fantastic. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2000 by johnkc@btinternet.com
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