Dollar Album [Import]

Dollar (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 4, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• ASIN: B0032BVEL8
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #248,396 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour)

2. Give Me Back My Heart

3. Hand Held In Black And White

4. Pink And Blue

5. I Got Your Number Wrong

6. Guessing Game

7. Give Me Some Kinda Magic

8. Videotheque

9. Dangerous Blondes

10. You Made Me Love You

11. Anyone Who's Anyone

12. The Second Time Around

13. Hand Held In Black And White (Alternative Trevor Horn 1981 Mix)

14. Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour) (Alternative Trevor Horn 1981 Mix)

15. Give Me Back My Heart (Alternative Trevor Horn 1981 Mix)

16. Videotheque (Alternative Trevor Horn 1982 Mix)

17. I Got Your Number Wrong (Alternative 1982 Mix)

18. Guessing Games (Alternative 1982 Mix)

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1982 album from the British Pop duo including six bonus tracks. The album features their massive hit singles 'Hand Held In Black And White' (#19), 'Mirror Mirror' (#4), 'Give Me Back My Heart' (#4), 'Videotheque' (#17) and 'Give Me Some Kinda Magic' (#34). Booklet contains original LP artwork, detailed liner notes and pictures of all the relevant sleeves. Produced by the legendary Trevor Horn, this is the album that launched his highly successful production career. 18 tracks. Cherry Pop. 2010.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Four stars mainly for Trevor Horn, March 27, 2010

By 

bobby morrow "Bobby Morrow" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dollar Album (Audio CD)

This album has finally been released on CD almost 28 years after it's debut. It's given a good reissue by Cherry Red, is faithfully remastered and packaged superbly. Fans have been campaigning to get this on CD for the longest time and must be thrilled with this good value effort containing 6 rare bonus tracks.

Thing is, 'The Dollar Album' is one of those albums that isn't as good as you remember it... Much publicity at the time was attatched to the involvement of Trevor Horn who wrote and produced 4 tracks. He is truly the album's saving grace and his songs; 'Hand Held In Black And White', 'Mirror Mirror', 'Give Me Back My Heart' and 'Videotheque' are uniformly superb.

Thing is, there are 8 other David Van Day and Thereza Bazar penned and produced tracks! The duo had written some of the songs on their excellent first album, 'Shooting Stars' in 1979, but this is definitely too much of a good thing with the majority of the tracks trying to ape Horn's style but are let down by dreadful lyrics and weak production that exposes the often quite poor vocals. It's not as bad as the preceding 'The Paris Collection' album and the songs are catchy but there was far superior pop music around at the time and it's not hard to see why 'The Dollar Album' became their final album.

After this LP, the duo quickly split and attempted unsuccessful solo careers before embarking on a series of increasingly embarrassing 'reunions' that continue pretty much to this day.

Saddled with a cheesy, blatantly fake image, Dollar would always have to work extra hard to make sure their music stood out and they clearly weren't up to it. I think their mistake was trying to do too much. They weren't experienced or talented enough to write and produce whole albums themselves and while 'The Dollar Album' is probably their biggest selling and best remembered LP, it's the aforementioned Chris Neil produced 'Shooting Stars' album that for me is their peak.