- 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 Britishpop rock / new wavemusic ensembleband The Beloved , released in 1987, onFlim Flam label, though it is best described as acompilation , since it actually compiles all the singles and relatedB-Side s previously released by the band betweenApril 1986 andAugust 1987 . It didn't chart in theUK Albums Chart , but it reached Number 17 in theUK 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 anylyrics sheet, and features a mostly barecover art , with a couple ofphotograph s picturing the four members, all inblack and white , each song is neatly accompanied by essential notes including,recording and release dates. Recently, the originalvinyl 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 aguitar -orientated sound: they sounded at times likeNew Order ,Joy Division ,Nick Cave , andThe 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 firststudio album . Therecord now includes all of the group's early singles, namely "A Hundred Words ," "This Means War ," "Happy Now ," and thedouble A-side "Surprise Me " / "Forever Dancing ," all of them making the Top 30 in theUK Indie Chart , but all of them failing in theUK Top 75 .The album was produced by
Michael Johnson , except for "Forever Dancing" and "If Only '87", which were produced byThe 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 bandleader andvocalist 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 byTim 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
Chart placings are not from the
UK Singles Chart , but from theUK Indie Chart . [cite book |last=Lazell |first=Barry |title=Indie Hits 1980-1999 |year= 1997 |publisher=Cherry Red Books |isbn=0-9517206-9-4 ]*
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
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Jon Marsh
*Steve Waddington
*Tim Havard
*Guy Gausden Production
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Michael Johnson : production except #5 and #9
*The Beloved : production on #5 and #9taff
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Five Point :sleeve
*Phil Nicholls :photograph s (taken inParis ,France ,June 1987 )References
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