What a deal of a shameless gall was required to put this product out. It's not as if it's that bad, either, everything's 'fine' by 'NR' standards; rather, what offends is its bloated unwieldiness, its smug dedication to gauche time-wasting. Like all these in-studio pop groups (ABC, Human League, Eurythmics, Soft Cell, Heaven 17), these songs aren't 'songs', but improv over a bed of synthesised sound. Some have more structure than others, see (hear) 'Relax', but by and large this is a symbol of the stagnant. The original B-sides of Relax and Two Tribes were One September Monday and The Happening, a/k/a One February Friday. The Last Voice previously released on vinyl only ( 12 ZTAS 3), and Relax (Disco Mix) previously released on Greece-only promo vinyl Norwegiancharts.com – Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 July 2019. Producer Trevor Horn wanted a big launch for his new record label ZTT Records, and he got exactly that with Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s controversial, international smash hit “Relax”. It topped the UK Chart and became the country’s sixth biggest selling single of all time. Their follow-up single “Two Tribes” topped the UK chart for nine weeks.

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Then come the covers which are nice enough because Holly Johnson has a nice voice and on one level FGTH were just a decent covers band. (side 3) Vary pleasure incessantly (never more than two hours at the same task) and from all these successive pleasures make one continual pleasure." Top 100 Albums (January 3–December 29, 1984)" (PDF). Music Week. 26 January 1985. p.42. ISSN 0265-1548– via World Radio History. Year-end charts [ edit ] 1984 year-end chart performance for Welcome to the Pleasuredome Chart (1984)

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