Where It Is

Infobox Album | Name = Where It Is
Type = Album
Artist = The Beloved

Released = 1987
Recorded = January 1986-June 1987
Genre = Pop rock
New wave
Length =
Label = Flim Flam
Producer = Michael Johnson
The Beloved
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|1.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:g9fexqwhldje Link]
Last album = |
This album = Where It Is
(1987)
Next album = "Happiness"
(1990)

Where It Is is the debut album by British pop rock / new wave music ensembleband The Beloved, released in 1987, on Flim Flam label, though it is best described as a compilation, since it actually compiles all the singles and related B-Sides previously released by the band between April 1986 and August 1987. It didn't chart in the UK Albums Chart, but it reached Number 17 in the UK Indie Chart. [cite book |last=Lazell |first=Barry |title=Indie Hits 1980-1999 |year= 1997 |publisher=Cherry Red Books |isbn=0-9517206-9-4 ]

Though the long playing work does not include any lyrics sheet, and features a mostly bare cover art, with a couple of photographs picturing the four members, all in black and white, each song is neatly accompanied by essential notes including, recording and release dates. Recently, the original vinyl record, which was unavailable for more than a decade, was finally re-released on an expanded CD edition, containing most of the original track listing, plus a number of re-recorded versions (for example, "If Only '88" and "Happy Now," the latter not being included on the original LP).

At the time, the band was a quartet, and had a guitar-orientated sound: they sounded at times like New Order, Joy Division, Nick Cave, and The Cure of the "Pornography" album. A summation of this stage of their career can be found on this critically both acclaimed and dismissed at the same time, but however commercially unsuccessful tentative first studio album. The record now includes all of the group's early singles, namely "A Hundred Words," "This Means War," "Happy Now," and the double A-side "Surprise Me" / "Forever Dancing," all of them making the Top 30 in the UK Indie Chart, but all of them failing in the UK Top 75.

The album was produced by Michael Johnson, except for "Forever Dancing" and "If Only '87", which were produced by The Beloved themselves. Similarly, the songs were all written by the band, most collectively (six tracks, two of which became the singles "A Hundred Words" and "This Means War"), three were authoured by band leader and vocalist Jon Marsh (two of which ended up on the double A-side "Surprise Me"/"Forever Dancing"), and one, that is the album's opening song, which is also one of the songs with the longest title ever in the history of music ("If Pennies Came from Heaven Could Kark Marx Have Been Mistaken?," referred to as just "If Pennies Came from Heaven" for short, or even only "If Pennies"), was composed by Tim Havard.

Track listing

# "If Pennies Came from Heaven Could Kark Marx Have Been Mistaken?" (Havard)
# "A Hundred Words" (Gauson/Havard/Marsh/Waddington)
# "Surprise Me" (Marsh)
# "Let It Begin" (Gauson/Havard/Marsh/Waddington)
# "Forever Dancing" (Marsh)
# "Righteous Me" (Marsh)
# "Slow Drowning" (Gauson/Havard/Marsh/Waddington)
# "This Means War" (Gauson/Havard/Marsh/Waddington)
# "If Only '87" (Gauson/Havard/Marsh/Waddington)
# "In Trouble and Shame" (Gauson/Havard/Marsh/Waddington)

ingles from the album

* April 1986 - "A Hundred Words" (#15)
* September 1986 - "This Means War" (#22)
* March 1987 - "Happy Now" (#22) [only on CD re-release]
* 13 June 1987 - "Surprise Me" / "Forever Dancing" (#15)

Credits

Band

*Jon Marsh
*Steve Waddington
*Tim Havard
*Guy Gausden

Production

*Michael Johnson: production except #5 and #9
*The Beloved: production on #5 and #9

taff

*Five Point: sleeve
*Phil Nicholls: photographs (taken in Paris, France, June 1987)

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