Exotica (Bananarama album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Exotica
Type = Album
Artist = Bananarama


Released = March 2001
Recorded = September 2000-January 2001
Genre = Pop rock
Dance
Ballad
Latin pop
Length =
Label = M6 Interactions
Producer = Pascal Caubet
Reviews =
Last album = "Master Series"
(1996)
This album = "Exotica"
(2001)
Next album = "The Very Best of Bananarama"
(2001)

"Exotica" is the eighth studio album released by British female girl group Bananarama. It was produced by Pascal Caubet, and issued only in France, in 2001, on the M6 Interactions label. The work is a combination of new compositions along with re-recordings of past Bananarama hits, including an interesting Latin pop version of U.S. and UK Top 10 smash hit "Cruel Summer". Two songs were released as promo-only singles: "If" (which was abandoned mostly before release), and a cover version of George Michael's "Careless Whisper". The 2001 long playing work was not a commercial or critical success for Bananarama, but the few copies of "If" which ever made it to the French market became one of the rarest items ever by the band, heavily sought after by fans and collectors.

Track listing

#"If" (Caubet/Dallin/Woodward)
#"Starz" (Dallin/Moran/Waller)
#"What You Gonna Do" (Dallin/Waller)
#"Cruel Summer" (Dallin/Fahey/Jolley/Swain/Woodward)
#"Crazy" (Dallin/Hampartzyoumyan/Woodward)
#"Boom" (Dallin/de Havilland/Waller)
#"Robert DeNiro's Waiting" (Dallin/Fahey/Jolley/Swain/Woodward)
#"Careless Whisper" (Michael/Ridgeley)
#"Sleep" (Dallin/Statham/Waller/Woodward)
#"I Heard a Rumour" (Dallin/Fahey/Woodward/Stock Aitken Waterman)
#"Got a Thing for You" (Caubet/Dallin/Waller/Woodward)
#"Venus" (VanLeeuwen)