Select (album)

Select
Studio album by Kim Wilde
Publication (s)	May 10, 1982
Label (s)	RAK Records
Format (s)	LP, cassette, CD
Genre (s)	Synth pop , new wave , pop rock
Title (number)	10
running time	40:44
production	Ricky Wilde
Studio (s)	RAK Studios , London
chronology Kim Wilde (1981) Select Catch as Catch Can (1983)
Single releases November 1981 Cambodia April 1982 View from a bridge

Select (German: “select” or “choose”) is the second studio album by British singer Kim Wilde . It was released on RAK Records in May 1982 .

background

Select followed the successful debut Kim Wilde , but the first single Cambodia , released six months before the album, showed a change in the sound, which tended significantly more in the direction of synth pop . The songs were again written by Marty and Ricky Wilde and produced by the latter. Lyrically Select followed on from the first album; View from a Bridge, for example, is about suicide , with Ego the opposite of a love song was recorded. The song Can You Come Over was recorded in the Wilde family home. Gered Mankowitz photographed Kim Wilde for the cover.

In the United Kingdom , the album reached number 19 in the charts, in the United States it could not place. In Austria reached Select place 20 and in Germany fourth place in the album charts . In the Netherlands the album came in at number one and in Sweden at number two on the hit list there.

Track list

All plays were written by Ricky Wilde and Marty Wilde, except where noted.

Side one

1. Ego - 4:11
2. Words Fell Down - 3:31
3. Action City - 3:25
4. View from a Bridge - 3:32
5. Just a Feeling - 4:12

Side two

1. Chaos at the Airport - 3:20 am
2. Take Me Tonight - 3:56
3. Can You Come Over - 3:35
4. Wendy Sadd - 3:49
5. Cambodia + recapitulation - 7:13

Bonus title (Remastered Edition 2009, CD)

11. Watching for Shapes ( Cambodia , B-side) - 3:42
12. Cambodia (Single Version) - 3:57
13. Child Come Away - 4:05
14. Just Another Guy ( Child Come Away , B-side) - 3:19
15. Bitter Is Better ( Masami Tsuchiya , Bill Crunchfield) - 3:43

Title List (Deluxe Edition 2020)

CD1

1. ego
2. Words Fell Down
3. Action City
4. View from a bridge
5. Just a feeling
6. Chaos at the Airport
7. Take Me Tonight
8. Can you come over
9. Wendy Sadd
10. Cambodia
11. Recapitulation
12. Child Come Away
13. Bitter is Better
14. He will be there
15. Watching for shapes
16. Just another guy
17. Bitter Is Better (Instrumental)

CD2

1. Ego (rough mix)
2. Words Fell Down (Original Mix)
3. Action City (Instrumental Demo)
4. Just a Feeling (Rough Mix)
5. Chaos at the Airport (Rough Mix)
6. Take Me Tonight (Original Mix)
7. Cambodia (Matt Pop Extended Version)
8. View from a Bridge (Luke Mornay Remix)
9. Child Come Away (Matt Pop Remix)
10. Cambodia (Luke Mornay Urbantronik Mix)
11. View from a Bridge (Raw Remix)
12. Child Come Away (Matt Pop Instrumental)
13. Cambodia (Matt Pop Instrumental)
14. View from a Bridge (Luke Mornay Instrumental)
15. Cambodi (Luke Mornay Urbantronik Instrumental)

DVD

The Videos

1. Cambodia
2. View from a bridge
3. Child Come Away

Kim at the BBC

1. Cambodia (On Top of the Pops )
2. View from a Bridge (On Top of the Pops )
3. View from a Bridge (On Nationwide Special: The British Rock & Pop Wards )

reception

Charts and chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	4th (19 weeks)	19th
Austria (Ö3)	20th (2 weeks)	2
United Kingdom (OCC)	19th (11 weeks)	11

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
France (SNEP)	gold	100,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver	60,000
All in all	1 × silver 1 × gold	160,000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date of publication
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kim Wilde - Select , discogs.com
3. ^ View from a Bridge , wilde-life.com
4. ↑ Kim Wilde - Select , hitparade.ch
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE CH UK
6. ^ Les Certifications & Les Ventes. infodisc.fr, accessed on August 5, 2020 (French). 
7. ↑ Kim Wilde - Select. bpi.co.uk, accessed August 5, 2020 .