Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome C/D

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Hyped it was, but it's pretty damn great. Like yourself I was 13 or 14 the first time around. Hadn't listened to it since then, but I dug it out again a year or so ago. Whew, I think it sounds even better now than it did then. Classic!

Wasn't it a big Christmas album as well? I remember it being pushed relentlessly in Woolworth's Xmas ads that year.

And!! The Two Tribes video!

Young pop fans across the nation on Christmas morning: "WTF?"

'Power of Love' is coming up, I can't wait to hear it. That was a favourite of mine also.

This is a really great album!

...I did say I'd keep it, right? :-P

Mzui, you're back! So um about a certain CDR project... ;-)

What an Xmas gift this will be! (I have Dr. C's address if you need it.)

Back to the subject at hand -- I am actually interested in this album in the light of Simon R.'s use of it and Frankie as the end-point of Rip It Up and Start Again. As he sees it, it was the conclusion of 'post-punk/new pop' in terms of The Future -- "On one level, you could see Frankie as punk's last blast. But on another deeper, structural level, Frankie were a taste of pop things to come -- the return of the boy band. Perhaps that accounts for the curious hollowness, even at the height of Frankiemania, to the phenomenon."

Incidentally, one of the main problems w/ the record is the degree to which it pales in comparison to the singles. In particular, the Fruitness Mix of the title track is just outstanding.

never heard any of the modern remixes - are any of them any good or is it a case of stick with the 80's 12" and avoid the new ones ?

Agreed. They've done those Twelve-Inches (har) sets, but a box would be fun. Plus, the Act set is outstanding...

pretty much the biggest british band in terms of singles sales and press fuss between the fabs and the gallaghers. good on em. well 'ard. etc.

Too lazy to do that.

Anyone remember the backlash T-shirts, the ones that read "UP YOURS FRANKIE"?

Please tell me Paul Morley was behind them.

Still I don't remember their second album being very good at all. A shame.

iYet Another Redundant "Double LPs" Thread...but with a fairly interesting variation

As for the MUSIC, I wish they'd included the (superior) alternate mix of "Two Tribes" - the version that was used in the video. That GREBT video with the death-match between Ronald Reagan and Konstantin Chernenko (look him up, youngsters.) But inferior or not, it's still the LPs high point, if you ask me.

I didn't say *Howe* plotzed, more like what stereotypical Yes fans might have thought of it. Dare I say.

The song structures on "...Pleasure Dome" are pretty much traditional all the way. The title track may last for 13 minutes, but other than the intro and outro, it keeps to the same mood and groove throughout, with none of the mood changes and dymanic changes that are typical of prog.

A second CD as proposed above might be the greatest CD ever made, come to think of it...

There was a recent upgrade of the original CD, with proper cover and inserts, but no 2CD package as such (at least not in the UK).

"we get buzzed off the fact that warhol's heard of us,
because he got buzzed off the fact that picasso had heard of him"

BANG!

That bassline on 'Wish The Lads Were Here'!

timely revival.

anyone tempted by the new boxset ?

as much as i love the whole excess of ztt, i have to admit that this boxset does nothing for me.

which is a massive letdown as i really wanted the definitive FGTH boxset of this album.

i.e. remastered version. multiple cds of all the commercially available remixes/b-sides. cd of extras.

+ big f*ck off print of the original inner sleeve artwork ...

but hey ..

am totally down with the big print idea

I want the new box but the pledgemusic pages says not available to US backers

boo ..

knowing ztt there will be probably be a usa exclusive edition with a very subtle difference ..

I've been listening to this album a fair amount over the last couple of days after the recent Frankie singles poll, and it's been really hitting the spot for me. However, I'm thinking that the tracklisting on the original CD issue is superior to the vinyl version: the first CD issue replaces the album version of 'Two Tribes' with the Annihilation mix (even though it keeps the 'For The Victims of Ravishment' title) and merges it with 'The Last Voice' and gets rid of the section with Chris Barrie doing the "Prince Charles talking about orgasms" bit, and it replaces 'Ferry (Go)' and 'San Joe (The Way)' (which I've never liked) and replaces them with the far superior 'Happy Hi!' ... Side One and Side Four are basically represented in the same way on the original CD.

So what's the definitive version of this album? I swear, this band has like 60 billion different versions of every goddamn thing they released.

Just picked up the 2CD 25th anniversary remaster of this, having never listened to it before. Phew!