Liverpool (album)

Liverpool
Frankie Goes to Hollywood studio album
Publication (s)	October 20, 1986
admission	1986
Label (s)	ZTT Records (GB)
Format (s)	Record , music cassette , CD
Genre (s)	Dance , new wave , pop , rock
Title (number)	8 (+2 bonus titles)
running time	44:03
production	Stephen Lipson
Studio (s)	Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum , Sarm Studios, London
chronology Bang! (1985) Liverpool Bang! ... The Greatest Hits of Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1993)
Single releases August 25, 1986 Rage Hard November 10, 1986 Warriors of the Wasteland February 23, 1987 Watching the wildlife

Liverpool is the second and final studio album by the British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood . It was released in October 1986.

History of origin

After the success of Welcome to the Pleasuredome and the promotional tour, recordings for the band's new album began in Ireland. Peter Gill , Brian Nash and Mark O'Toole wanted to counter circulating rumors that their debut album was recorded without their musical participation. The recordings, described as "chaotic", were moved from Ireland to Ibiza and back to Ireland, then to the Netherlands, the Channel Island of Jersey and finally back to the Netherlands, where the album was finished in mid-1986 with Stephen Lipson as producer. Also, Trevor Horn , the band was at its record deal, was involved in the production. The album was considered a commercial disappointment due to the high production costs, which are said to have been double that of the debut album. The cover photographs are from Anton Corbijn . The album title goes back to an idea of ​​ZTT co-founder Paul Morley :

“When we came to discuss the second album's title, I wanted to call it Liverpool because that's where they were going back to. I knew it was all over. Holly wanted to call it something like The Jeweled Minds of Persia . ”

“When we were discussing the title of the second album, I wanted to call it Liverpool because that's where they would return. I knew it was all over. Holly wanted a title like The Jeweled Minds of Persia . "

- Paul Morley in an interview with Simon Reynolds

Publication and chart success

After the tour following the release, there was a break with singer Holly Johnson due to the toggle contracts with ZTT Records . The breakup of the band was announced in April 1987. Simon Reynolds describes the contract situation of the band with the record label in his book "Rip it Up" after a quote from Paul Morley as "Deal from the fifties" with royalties of five percent and the assignment of copyrights to the publisher "Perfect Song", one Subsidiary of ZTT. Lawsuits on the part of the record label ZTT Records were ruled in January 1988 in a London court in favor of Johnson, who then began a solo career.

Liverpool reached number 5 in Great Britain, number 5 in Germany and number 116 in the USA. Rage Hard was released as a single before the album in August 1986. The singles Warriors of the Wasteland and Watching the Wildlife were also released from the album .

In 2011, the band released a remastered deluxe edition with a second CD containing rare and unreleased recordings.

reception

Alex S. Garcia from Allmusic gave the album 2.5 stars out of 5. The album is "not a bad sample" of the music of the 1980s. Garcia highlighted the "flawless production" of the album by Trevor Horn.

Track list

All songs were written by Gill / Johnson / Nash / O'Toole unless otherwise noted.

1. Warriors of the Wasteland - 4:58
2. Rage Hard - 5:03
3. Kill the Pain - 6:16
4. Maximum Joy - 5:32
5. Watching the Wildlife - 4:18
6. Lunar Bay - 5:42
7. For Heaven's Sake - 4:29
8. Is Anybody Out There? - 7:25

A later release includes two bonus tracks:

1. (Don't Lose What's Left) of Your Mind
2. Suffragette City ( David Bowie )

2-CD Deluxe Edition

CD1

1. Warriors of the Wasteland 04:54
2. Rage Hard 05:08
3. Kill The Pain 6:16 am
4. Maximum Joy 05:30
5. Watching the Wildlife 04:19
6. Lunar Bay 05:42
7. For Heaven's Sake 04:30
8. Is Anybody out There? 07:28
9. The Waves 02:44
10. Pamela 00:22 (spoken)
11. Pocket Vibrator 03:32 (Monitor mix Sarm sessions October 1986)
12. Suffragette City 03:35
13. Roadhouse Blues 04:06
14. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 04:50 (Monitor mix Sarm sessions May 1986)
15. (Don't Lose What's Left) Of your little mind 06:14
16. Rage Hard (voiceless) 05:07

CD2

1. Rage Hard (Montreux mix) 05:34
2. Warriors of The Wasteland (Montreux mix) 03:19
3. Warriors cassetted 19:58
4. Wildlife Cassetted 24:26
5. Our Silver Turns to Gold 03:44 (Monitor mix Ibiza sessions May 1985)
6. Delirious 03:12 (Monitor mix Ibiza sessions October 1985)
7. Stan 00:42 (spoken)
8. For Heaven's Sake 07:55 (Monitor mix Wisseloord sessions March 1986)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.allmusic.com/album/liverpool-mw0000650165
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Thompson: Alternative Rock . Miller Freeman, San Francisco 2000, ISBN 0-87930-607-6 , pp. 375 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Christian Graf and Burghard Rausch: Rock Music Lexicon . Europe / Vol. 1, ABC – Kursaal Flyers. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12387-9 , pp. 511 ff . (750 pp.).
4. ↑ Simon Reynolds: Totally Wired - Postpunk Interviews and Overviews . Soft Skull Press, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-59376-286-5 . , P. 335
5. ↑ Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up And Start Again . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-270-6 (Chapter 26 Raiding the Twentieth Century: ZTT and Frankiemania ). , P. 507
6. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/liverpool-mw0000650165/awards