True Confessions (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = True Confessions
Type = Album
Artist = Bananarama


Released = July 1986
Recorded = May 1985 - April 1986
Genre = New Wave
Length = 48:09
Label = London
Producer = Tony Swain, Steve Jolley, Stock Aitken Waterman
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ouvyxdkbjola link]
Last album = "Bananarama"
(1984)
This album = "True Confessions"
(1986)
Next album = "Wow!"
(1987)

"True Confessions" is the third album by the British girl group Bananarama. Released in 1986, the album was not a commercial success in the UK, but achieved their biggest sales and chart success in the U.S., where the first single "Venus" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (an achievement they never obtained in their home country).

A majority of the album is produced by Tony Swain and Steve Jolley (who produced their second album). With the exception of "Venus" and "More Than Physical" (later given a garage music remix for its single version), which began Bananarama's association with the Stock, Aitken & Waterman songwriting and production team, much of the album has adult contemporary leanings.

On March 19, 2007, Bananarama's first six studio albums were re-issued by Rhino Records. All re-issues are remastered and each includes several bonus tracks, consisting of B-sides and remixes.

Miscellanea

* Bananarama gave the copyright for "Hooked on Love", an anti-drug song, to the Anti-Heroin Project's "It's a Live-in World"
* The song "True Confessions" was included on the sountrack to the American film "PI-Private Investigations" in 1987.
* "A Trick of the Night" was included on the soundtrack to the American film "Jumpin' Jack Flash".

Track listing

#"True Confessions" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 5:18
#"Ready Or Not" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:52
#"A Trick of the Night" (Jolley, Swain) — 4:40
#"Dance With a Stranger" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 4:31
#"In a Perfect World" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 6:05
#"Venus" (Robert Leeuwen) — 3:51
#"Do Not Disturb" (Jolley, Swain) — 3:25
#"A Cut Above the Rest" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:40
#"Promised Land" (Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:45
#"More Than Physical" (Stock, Aitken, Waterman, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 5:05
#"Hooked on Love" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:46

2007 re-issue bonus tracks

#"Ghost" (P. Bishop, P. Seymour, S. Dallin) — 4:03
#"White Train" (Dallin, Fahey, Woodward, Bishop, Seymour) — 3:51
#"More Than Physical" (Single version) — 3:19
#"Scarlett" (Dallin, Fahey, Woodward, Bishop) — 4:12
#"A Trick of the Night" (Single version) — 4:17
#"Set on You" (Stock, Aitken, Waterman, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:56
#"Riskin' a Romance" (Fahey, O. Marland, P. Waller) — 3:53

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