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Rating:
I don't know if it was reasonable to expect a deadly one-two punch from a group as controversial as Frankie Goes To Hollywood, given the provocative image they very astutely portrayed and the recurring rumors that they couldn't actually play.
What is certain is that on the second attempt, the hopes of replicating the enormous success of Welcome sank with a work decidedly below expectations. Overall, we are faced with a good album, but the comparison with the excellent debut album seems too harsh.
The change of pace is clear, a sudden farewell to the extravagances and fun antics of Relaxiana in favor of a more linear sound, eight nervously rock tracks that, however, don't leave much room for imagination.
There would be no follow-up, and in 1987, a few months after the start of the tour, Holly left the group, effectively decreeing its end. It seems that the disagreements with Trevor Horn, who two years earlier preferred to record the entire debut album with elements external to the group, including some members of Yes, were by now irreconcilable, and only the choice to entrust co-production to Stephen Lipson helped spur the group to compose and play the entire album independently. Furthermore, the lack of a leading song, despite the three singles released, made the whole project less appealing.
However, it is possible that the group did not have the necessary depth to embark on a longer career and, after the first fortunate success, soon found themselves with nothing left to offer.
But let's not consider them just an episode; with Welcome to the Pleasure Dome and its appendage Liverpool, Frankie's dream went well beyond the '80s.
Bang!
MrB
Tracks
Warriors of the Wasteland
Rage Hard
Kill the Pain
Maximum Joy
Watching the Wildlife
Lunar Bay
For heaven's Sake
Is anybody out there?
Line-up
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Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Warriors of the Wasteland (04:53)
From diamond mine to the factory
Everybody's doing what you've got to keep on doing for society
Make this world a good place to be
Let livin' be but don't work for free
Playing isn't paying so worx is what I'm saying
Working for the world go round
The battle cry don't mess with me
I've travelled the world for eternity
Warriors of the wasteland
Sailboats of ice on desert sands
Warriors of the wasteland
It seems to be that the powers that be
Keep themselves in splendour and security
Armoured cars for megastars
No streets, no bars, yours wealth is ours
They make the masses, kiss their asse(t)s
Lower class jackass, pay me tax take out the trash
Working for the world go round
Your job is gold, do as you're told
the pay you less the run for congress
Warriors of the wasteland
Sailboats of ice on desert sands
Warriors of the wasteland
I'm working for the world go round, go round
Diamond mind to the factory, yeah
Make this a world, a good place to be
Warriors what a waste, man
WARRIORS
WE'RE RATS IN A CAGE
SUICIDE A GO GO
02 Rage Hard (05:07)
Rage! Rage! Rage! Rage!
Rage Hard!
Laugh like the head of Apollo
Young and strong on the wings of tomorrow
Rise up in millions get off your knees
Dispelling the demons
In the valley of danger
We all work together, sculptures in sorrow
With love light to follow, on
Sweet head of Apollo
Rage hard, into the light
Rage hard, doing it right, doing it right
Rage Hard, against the dark
Rage Hard, make your mark
Let the tournament begin
Don't give up and don't give in
Strength to rise up, strength to win
Strength to save the wor(l)d from losing
Rage Hard, into the light
Rage Hard, doing it right
Rage Hard, against the dark
Rage Hard
Rage!
Rage Hard
Though blue eyes of children
They shine without fear
Hope is the future, with oceans of cheer
Nothing to fear
There's nothing to fear
Though laughter of angels resounding
From heaven keep fighting the favours
Of charlatan saviours, charlatan saviours
Rage hard, into the light
Rage hard, doing it right, doing it right
Rage Hard, against the dark
Rage Hard, make your mark
Let the tournament begin
Don't give up and don't give in
Rage hard, into the light
Rage hard, doing it right
Rage Hard, against the dark
Rage Hard, make your mark
I don't know which way to go
My love's like driven snow
When we past the test of time
My love you shall be mine
And if only, lost and lonely
Is all that's wrong with me, we' ll be free
Be free, be free
Laugh like the head of apollo
Young and strong on the wings of tomorrow
Rage Hard
Rage Hard
Let the tournament begin
Don't give up and don't give in
Rage Hard, into the light
Rage Hard, doing it right
Let the tournament begin
Don't give up and don't give in
Strength to rise up, strength to win
Strength to save the wor(l)d from losing
04 Maximum Joy (05:30)
(Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'Toole)
On glory day we'll get the gifts of heaven up above
All around you hope and joy, to find and fall in love
Can you feel that Maximum joy
Rolling round like a brand new boy
Rain and sunshine from heaven
Feeling the wonder, of sun ,rain and thunder
Unravelling life's mysteries, living to make history
Free at last...
Can you feel that Maximum joy
Rolling round like a brand new boy
Rain and sunshine from heaven
Can you feel that Maximum joy
Rolling round like a brand new boy
Rain and sunshine from heaven
Can you feel it...
Let dreamers dream and lovers leap
I pray for you our souls to keep free at last...
Can you feel that Maximum joy
Rolling round like a brand new boy
Rain and sunshine from heaven
Can you feel that Maximum joy
Rolling round like a brand new boy
Rain and sunshine from heaven
I will catch and keep you like a rainbow in my room
And tie you to a star that's rising, dancing on the moon, on the moon
Can you feel it...Maximum joy...Maximum joy
05 Watching the Wildlife (04:18)
Watching the wildlife
On my way home, the state of Rome
People gliding on the floor
Pleased with life not needing more
Sunset on the river
People go home in the rain
Familiar faces on the train
Running scared, and staying sane
If you live by the sword
Well that's your own reward
So don't walk with me
Watching the wildlife
The beast within you
Eats your heart out
Get free from hate and get in love
Boys in the backyard
The girls are hanging out the lines
Washing the day, wash your troubles away
It's game we have to play
Ghosts are chasing you round
Things that happen in the past
Don't make that mistake again
The sun beats down the streets of passion
If you live by the sword
Well that's your own reward
So don't talk with me
Watching the wildlife
The beast within you
Eats your heart out
Get free from hate and get in love
Your own worst enemy
Get free from hate and get in love
If you live by the sword
Watching the wildlife
Watching you
The beast within you too
Watching the wildlife
Get in love, get in love
Watching the wildlife
We all live in a dream in home
We watch TV and drive a car
We go outside, but not too far
Watching the wildlife
We walk the water like a sun
Living cuts you like a knife
Living here watching the Wildlife
Get in love, get in love
06 Lunar Bay (05:16)
Walk right through my soul, keep out the cold
Make me lose control, fill me with love
My mind is blasing and were escaping, the real world
Swing and sway on Lunar bay
On Lunar bay, yeah
Touch my very soul, makes me lose control
My dreams unfold, you fill me with love
Feel me walking in the sun
Hear me talking to the moon
I won't change for anyone
I'm just for you
Touch my very soul, makes me lose control
My dreams unfold, fill me with love
The train of faces are going places, get on board
Swing and sway on Lunar bay
On Lunar bay , yeah
Swing and sway, swing and sway
Feel me walking in the sun
Hear me talking to the moon
I won't change for anyone
I'm just for you
When the wind rushes in
To hemald the king
Just stay in my heart
forever more
Feel me walking in the sun
I won't change for anyone
When the wind rushes in
To hemald the king
Just stay in my heart
forever more
in the sun
I won't change for anyone
In the common age of automation, where people might
eventually work ten or twenty hours a week, Man for
the first time will be forced to confront himself with
the true spiritual problems of living
07 For Heaven's Sake (04:55)
Leave them behind, those clouds of trouble
We have to find a world that's new
Buy a new dress and go out dancing
Do all the things you wanna do
For heaven's sake, you have to break away
Unchain yourself, from the mood of today
We don't need aggression
We don't need recession
Just give us some money
Our lives could be sunny too
We don't need regression
Or means of repression
Our lives could be sunny too ,ooh
Our lives should be so full of laughter
With endless joy to follow after
Summer comes to girls and boys
Never too late, but to enjoy, to enjoy
In my head, In my head, In my head,
In my head, In my head, In my head,
Oh come on down from your ivory tower
Unlock the doors and give us flowers
We've worked for you now for too long
We've done what's right, you've done us wrong
For heaven's sake, we got to break away
Unchain yourself, from the mood of today
We don't need regression
To make your impression
Oooh, the world is waiting
We need to go out dancing
Oooh, the world is waiting
We need a new TV
Oooh, the world is waiting
We don't need fear and fighting
Oooh, the world is waiting
We don't need history
In my head, In my head, In my head,
In my head, In my head, In my head,
She should buy us all a drink
She should buy us all a drink
She should stop and think, stop and think
She should buy us all a drink
Yeah
We don't need recession
or means of aggression
Just give us some money (Unchain yourself)
Our lives could be sunny too, ooh
Just give us some money
Our lives could be sunny too, ooh
She should stop and think, stop and think
We don't need regression
Or means of repression
Just give us some money (Unchain yourself)
Our lives could be sunny too, ooh
08 Is Anybody Out There? (07:25)
(Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'Toole)
If I could change the things I've done
Would I be the only one
To with again if only I could take your pain away
And think of better, better things to say
The highest price I'd gladly pay
For you to live, just golden days, golden days, golden days
So celebrate the moment now, have all that you desire
We'll keep each other warm, together we'll weather the storm
The children are dying and nobody's crying
There's got to be something out there, someone who cares
Got to be something out there *
Give me real life, the worry and the strife
I'll throw it out of the window, to the dogs below
So come with me I'll guide you through wardrobes of fantasy
And treasure chests of what could be
A world without anxiety
A legacy of golden days, golden days, golden days
Leave it all behind the blind leading the blind
Have all that you desire
Gotta be, gotta be someone out there
Let's break the rules scattering the jewels
Of joy amongst ourselves
The lonely, lonely of the shelves
Feel good about yourself, I'll drink to your health
Have all that you desire
(REPEAT)*
I'm looking for something, and I don't know what it is
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