Time of experimentation

Time of experimentation

Pop Life (Audio CD)

Customer Review

Just four years have created to Bananarama time until they released the follow-up "Pop Life" in 1991 after their hit album "Wow". Pop Life threatened to tear in the early 90's still big following. With this album completed the Nanas probably the most radical change of image and sound of her career. Even the booklet completes the transformation of the "Girl Next Door" image, which Bananarama had to date, towards the evil Maneater Gear - do Bananarama in the booklet but nothing more than lasciviously and chain-smoking dressed only in network fumbling in large beds loll - the eye finally hears also.

The lead single "Only Your Love" announced a dramatic change of direction at: Here was nothing to hear from the naively cheerful singalong sound of SAW, the Bananaramas 90s sounded rough and unpolished on their new material - almost as demo versions for not yet completed Tracks. Youth and Jolley distinguished responsible for the production of this album - and it is among the best and most innovative what the girls have ever published. The first half of the album is still the eingänglichste. Preacher Man is a fast-paced piece with dancefloor pounding bass and an addictive chorus. Compulsory cover of each album to check out Long Train Running is, in the original of the Dooby Brothers. Bananarama cases the track in a wonderful flamenco dress and here they were of their time well ahead, the Latino sound was but it was only a decade later for the masses.

With the start of the second half (then side B) let's the girls then explosive fun: Outta Sight - what's that? Has there as the song of a foreign artist strayed onto the album? The electric guitars bratzen, booming on the bottom, hysterical, almost shrieking vocals. Had Bananarama been already active in the heyday of the Rolling Stones and Woodstock, they would have sounded so. A splendid and absolutely unpredictable track! Megalomaniac does the same: Surprisingly driving straight-forward instrumentalization and unusually aggressive vocals. I Can not Let You Go presents itself chillig yet powerful groovy - a grandiose piece Minimalistic House - a genre that has established itself until years later really. Only the once SAW produced album-closer "Heartless" sounds a little out of place - a damn strong album thus sounds a bit to any of.

Pop Life flopped his time with a maximum placement on # 46. The change of style of the group was probably too radical for the changes hating mainstream audience. Bananaramas courage to explore new musical territory was punished with ignorance. However, that fact does not change the fact that Bananarama hereby produced a magnificent album that still sounds fresh as a daisy and innovative 16 years after it was first published over long distances. Pop Life is an absolute gem, not only in Bananarama universe, but is one of the best and trend-setting pop records of the early 90s.

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