Liverpool

Frankie Goes To Hollywood | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Umvd Labels
• ASIN: B00000DFFR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #368,859 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Warriors of 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?

9. (Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind [*]

10. Suffragette City [*]

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the controversial band's 1986 album. The story of Liverpool, the second Frankie Goes To Hollywood long player, is not that of one city, or one place in time. It's the story of a journey around some odd and surprising corners of Europe. And the story of Liverpool, the deluxe edition, is a road movie retracing the band's steps in search of the tapes and memories that were left behind. Salvo. 2011. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars He's not dead, he's only resting, July 20, 2004

By 

Ernie Longmire (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liverpool (Audio CD)

VH-1 tried to get FGTH back together in the first series of "Bands Reunited" in early 2004. Holly is not only alive and well, but he's as snitty as he ever was -- after leading everyone on for a week or two he declined to perform in the reunion at literally the last minute, leaving Mark, Paul, Nasher and Ped standing around in the studio. I've always felt that Liverpool was unjustly overshadowed by the chaos in the band around the time of its release. There's nowhere near as much fluff as on Pleasuredome and some of the non-single tracks are just brilliant. Steve Lipson produced the hell out of this album and as a result it rewards deep listening by fans of the all-out ZTT production sound.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth Another Look, November 29, 2005

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J. Merritt - See all my reviews

This review is from: Liverpool (Audio CD)

This album got short shrift once upon a long ago. FGTH made much more of a splash and had most of their commercial success with 1984's "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome," but the band came apart so quickly that many people didn't notice this 1986 effort. That's a shame, because this is a very good album. It's far more straightforward then "Pleasure Dome;" there's none of the extra-long or extra-short tracks or crazy intros and interludes that laced the first album together. The concept here focuses in from the hedonistic and apocalyptic overtones of "Dome" to the nature of man in the modern world. And `focus' is a key word; whereas the first album was all over the place stylistically, this is just eight tight, well-crafted songs with an alternative-pop sheen provided by producers Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn. If you enjoyed "Relax" and "Two Tribes" but never gave this album a chance, you might want to reconsider. And the Bowie cover that's been added as a bonus track (if you buy the right version) is just about worth it all by itself.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong on its own merits, March 5, 2001

By 

Mattias Thuresson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Liverpool (Audio CD)

If Frankie's debut album 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' had many high's and low's, their second and last album Liverpool was more even in quality. Liverpool is more conventional. Although it lacks hits like 'Two Tribes' and 'Relax' it neither has the space-fillers and boring chit-chat of the overlong'Welcome...'. Featuring a string of good songs, my favourites are 'Watching the Wildlife' and 'For Heaven's sake'. It would have been interesting if Frankie wouldn't have split up and too see where they would have gone from Liverpool. This album deserves a listening to anyone who likes Frankie's chart toppers.