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| 1 | Don't Leave Me This Way | Gamble/Huff/Gilbert | 4:51 |
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| 2 | La Dolarosa | 2:43 |
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| 3 | Disenchanted | Somerville/Coles | 4:13 |
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| 4 | Reprise | 5:22 |
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| 5 | So Cold the Night | Somerville/Coles | 5:45 |
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| 6 | You Are My World | Coles/Somerville | 4:30 |
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| 7 | Lover Man | Sherman/Davis/Ramir | 3:52 |
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| 8 | Don't Slip Away | 2:58 |
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| 9 | Heavens Above | Somerville/Coles | 3:59 |
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| 10 | Forbidden Love | 5:02 |
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| 11 | Breadline Britain | 2:31 |
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| 12 | Don't Leave Me This Way [12" Mega Mixes] | Gamble/Gilbert/Huff | 22:49 |
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Editorial Reviews
The Communards
Audio Compact Disc
Label: Polygram
Style: Dance-Pop
The Communards
UPC: 738476492424
Release Date: 01/01/1899
Original Release Date: 01/01/1899
- Sarah Jane Morris
Main Performer
Andy Kellman
Despite the inability of the music to live up to the high standards of Jimmy Somerville's ridiculously skilled falsetto voice, the Communards' first album achieved platinum status in several countries. Somerville's spirited duet with Sarah Jane Morris on a cover of Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way" helped push the record into the Top Ten on the U.K. charts, and a decent blend of other dancefloor fillers with Richard Coles-centric piano ballads lends variety for the ears that can't take a full album's worth of dance music. Both "Breadline Britain" and "Reprise" continue Somerville's activist ideals; the latter has to be one of the sharpest dissections of Margaret Thatcher. Compared to the following Red, much of the duo's self-titled debut sounds flat, lacking punch -- all the more surprising from a Mike Thorne (Wire, Marc Almond) production. [The remastered version adds a lengthy mix of "Don't Leave Me This Way."] ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi
