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Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome to the Pleasure Dome

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: ZTT Records
Released: 1984
Time:
 64:35
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Trevor C. Horn
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.fgth.org.uk
Appears with: Holly johnson
Purchase date: 1997
Price in €: 13,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] World Is My Oyster: Well/Snatch of Fury [Stay] (Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'toole) - 1:57
[2] Welcome to the Pleasuredome (Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'toole) - 13:38
[3] Relax [Come Fighting] (Gill/Johnson/O'toole) - 3:56
[4] War [And Hide] (Strong/Whitfield) - 6:12
[5] Two Tribes [For the Victims of Ravishment] (Gill/Johnson/O'toole) - 3:23
[6] (Tag) (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) - 0:35
[7] Fury (Marsden) - 1:49
[8] Born to Run (B.Springsteen) - 3:56
[9] San Jose (Bacharach/David) - 3:09
[10] Wish [The Lads Were Here] (Gill/Johnson/O'toole) - 2:48
[11] Ballad of 32 (Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'toole) - 4:47
[12] Krisco Kisses (Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'toole) - 2:57
[13] Black Night White Light (Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'toole) - 4:05
[14] Only Star in Heaven (Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'toole) - 4:16
[15] Power of Love (Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'toole) - 5:28
[16] Bang ... (Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'toole) - 1:08

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Frankie Goes to Hollywood:
Holly Johnson - Vocals, Voices
Brian Nash - Guitar
Paul Rutherford - Vocals
Mark O'Toole - Bass, Vocals
Peter Gill - Drums

Steve Howe - Acoustic Guitar, Guitar
Anne Dudley - Strings, Keyboards, String Arrangements
Luis Jardim - Percussion
Johnathon J. Jeczalik - Keyboards, Software
Steve Lipson - Guitar, Engineer, Production Assistant, Assistant Producer
Andy Richards - Keyboards
Louis Jardim - Percussion
Andrew Richards - Keyboards, Pots

Trevor Horn - Producer
Stuart Bruce - Engineer
Ian Cooper - Mastering
Anton Corbijn - Photography
Eric Watson - Photography
A.J. Barratt - Photography
Steve Romney - Photography
Pete Ashworth - Photography

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


Upbeat British dance music with melodramatic vocals and lyrics that are sexually and politically provocative. The sound of Frankie Goes to Hollywood swept Britain in the years 1983-1985. Here is the wide-screen debut double album, containing the hits "Relax," "Two Tribes," "The Power of Love," and the title track.

William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide



Ob nun Frankie Goes To Hollywood eine Retortenband war oder nicht, eines ist sicher: Ihr Song Relax gilt als ein Stück Musik gewordene Erotik. Und auch die restlichen Titel auf Welcome To The Pleasuredome lassen den Zuhörer gehörig erzittern - wenn nicht schon vor sinnlicher Erregung, dann wegen dem brachialen Power-Sound, von dem sich Skandalnudel Holly Johnson begleiten ließ.

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WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME

The world is my oyster........
Ha ha ha ha ha........  
The animals are winding me up
The jungle call
The jungle call  
Who-ha who-ha who-ha who-ha  
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan  
A pleasuredome erect
Moving on keep moving on-yeah
Moving at one million miles an hour
Using my power
I sell it by the hour
I have it so I market it
You really can't afford it-yeah
Really can't afford it  

*Shooting stars never stop
Even when they reach the top
Shooting stars never stop
Even when they reach the top  

**There goes a supernova
What a pushover-yeah
There goes a supernova
What a pushover  

***We're a long way from home
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
On our way home
Going home where lovers roam
Long way from home
Welcome to the Pleasuredome  
Moving on Keep moving on  
I will give you diamonds by the shower
Love your body even when it's old
Do it just as only I can do it
And never ever doing what I'm told  

*(Repeat)  

**(Repeat)  

Keep moving on
Got to reach the top  
Don't stop
Pay love and life-oh my
Keep moving on
On again-yeah  
Shooting stars never stop
Shooting stars never stop  

****Shooting stars never stop
Even when they reach the top
There goes a supernova
What a pushover  

****(Repeat)  

***(Repeat)  

Who-ha who-ha
Welcome to the Pleasuredome  
WELCOME........ha ha ha ha ha........  
Long way from home
WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME  


RELAX

Oh oh
Wee-ell-Now!
 
Relax don't do it
When you want to go to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
When you want to come
 
Relax don't do it
When you want to to go to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
Relax don't do it
When you want to suck it to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
Come-oh oh oh
 
But shoot it in the right direction
Make making it your intention-ooh yeah
Live those dreams
Scheme those schemes
Got to hit me
Hit me
Hit me with those laser beams
 
I'm coming
I'm coming-yeah
 
Relax don't do it
When you want to go to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
 
Relax don't do it
When you want to suck it to it
Relax don't do it (love)
When you want to come
When you want to come
When you want to come
Come-huh
 
Get it up
The scene of love
Oh feel it
 
Relax Relax Relax
Higher higher Relax
 
Now's The Time, It's Party Time

Hey


WAR (HIDDEN)

Oh no-there's got to be a better way
Say it again
There's got to be a better way-yeah
What is it good for?  

*War has caused unrest  
Among the younger generation
Induction then destruction
Who wants to die?  

War-huh What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again  
War-huh
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Yeah  
War-I despise 'Cos it means destruction  
Of innocent lives
War means tears
To thousands of mothers how
When their sons go off to fight
And lose their lives  

I said War-huh  
It's an enemy of all mankind
No point of war
'Cos you're a man  

*(Repeat)  

Give it to me one time-now
Give it to me one time-now  
War has shattered
Many young men's dreams
We've got no place for it today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord, there's just got to be a better way  

It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
War Friend only to the undertaker
War  

War War-Good God, now  
Now Give it to me one time now
Now now What is it good for?


TWO TRIBES (ANNIHILATION)

Ladies and gentlemen, let me present
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Possibly the most important thing
This side of the world.
 
Oh yeah, well ard!
 
You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times over, but the Goddess of the
Eternal Court of History will smile and tear to tatters the brief of the
state prosecutor and the sentence of this court, for She acquits us
Condemn me
Condemn me
Condemn me
History will absolve
Singing "this will be the day that I die".
yeahhhhhaaaa
 
(If your grandmother or any other member of your
family should die whilst in the shelter,
put them outside, but remember to tag them
first for identification purposes.) 
Go to war
Go to war
Go to war
heh
Just think, war breaks out and nobody turns up.
(If any member the family should die whilst in the shelter, put them outside,
but remember to tag them first for identification purposes.)
(If your grandmother or any other member of the family should die whil...
 ...dentification purposes.)
heh heh

It's enough to make you wonder sometimes if you're on the right planet.
 
Let's go
 
*When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
 
Cowboy No. 1
A born-again poor man's son
On the air America
I modelled shirts by Van Heusen-yeah
 
You know
 
*(Repeat)
 
Working on the black gas
 
Switch off your shield
Switch off and feel
I'm working on loving-yeah
Giving you back the good times
Ship it out-out
I'm working for the black gas
 
*(Repeat)
 
We got two tribes
We got the bomb
We got the bomb-yeah
Sock it to me biscuits-now
 
Are we living in a land
Where sex and horror are the new Gods?
Yeah
 
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score


BORN TO RUN

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
`Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
I want to guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims
and strap your hands across my engines
Together we could break this trap
We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back
Will you walk with me out on the wire
`Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real

Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight
In an everlasting kiss

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide
Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run


WISH (THE LADS WERE HERE)

Y' talking to me buddy

Well way - ow way - ow whoah

Now

I' out the street
And I dance to the beat of the, Cheers
I'm on the road and it's so nice
To meet ya, meet ya

Wait

*Love is on the run
Wish you were here
My love has got a gun
Wish you were here, here oh

The people I meet
There a treat
Wish you were here
Dance to the beat
With your feet on the street
You were here

Wait

*(REPEAT)

Oh now now now oh

Way - ha way - ha whoah oh

**Blow it down
The portrait of love
Blow it down
Heaven's above
Blow it down
The club of love
Blow it down
Glory of love

Tell me, why no talk to me, man
Tell me while I drown
Tell me, why no talk to me, man
Tell me while I drown

Dancing to the dance floor
When you fall I'm gonna pick you up

**(REPEAT)

Way - ha way - ha whoah oh

I' out on the street'
I dance to the beat of the cheers
I'm on the road and it's so nice, so nice E
Nice-YEAH

*(REPEAT)


BALLADS OF 32

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KRISCO KISSES

*Thunder thunder
I love that thunder- yeah
Hunger hunger
You feed my hunger - yeah
Hunger hunger

**Take it to the top my love
Let's take it to the top
With a fist way past the rest
Take it to the top

***You fit me like a glove, my love
You fit me like a glove
Be my friend my be-bop
Take it to the top my love

****Krisco kisses, kisses
Never misses, misses
Krisco kisses, kisses
You can take it up, up and up

*(REPEAT)

**(REPEAT)

You fit me like a glove my love
My little puppet glove
Be my friend, my be-bop
Take it to the top, my love oh

Yeah

****(REPEAT)

Higher, higher
I love that thunder
You feed my hunger

Higher, higher
I love that thunder
You feed my hunger

Hunger, hunger
Hunger, hunger
Hunger, hunger

You fit me like a glove my love
You fit me like a glove
You fit me like a glove my love
You fit me like a glove

 ***(REPEAT)

 ****(REPEAT)


BLACK NIGHT WHITE LIGHT

We are the leaders
And nothing can beat us
I feel so good
The angels can take you there
You better beware
Of devil may care
 
*Tell me where you want to go
We are the leaders
Heaven's above and Hell's below
We are the leaders
Oh sing hallelujah sing hallelujah
Giving it to you
We are the leaders
 
**Black night white light
The other side of midnight
 
The pleasure seekers
Are dyin' to meet you
They need young blood
The devil may take you there
You better take care
You've every ware
 
*(Repeat)
 
Chasing the dragon
Get off that wagon boy-yeah
Rub your body up
Work it up so good
Got to get on up
Going up show it off-yeah
 
**(Repeat twice)
 
We're on a journey
Into the light it feels so good
Your mind can take you there
With what is the call
Of body and soul
 
Your body and soul


THE ONLY STAR IN HEAVEN

Enjoy it or get out the game
It's such a shame to lose a game
So use your brain and play it sane
It's just a game i another plane

And when I call you on the phone
Then show me that you're really home
Let's share this thing and I will sing
Live life like a diamond ring

I can tell you something, shoop shark
That you oughta know, know
Feel my feeling
Go to let it show show show

*Got to shake you tail
To break away

FISH

Got to shake you tail
To make a wave

SHARK

*(REPEAT)

Get hot

Red hot

**Everybody create
Create your bait
Everybody create
Before it's too late

Live life like a diamond ring
Live life like a diamond ring

**(REPEAT)

*(REPEAT)

***You're the only star in heaven
You're the only star that shines
You're the only star in heaven
Now that only star is mine
Mine - YEAH

On my way to Hollywood
The minute I get there
And this is how you get there
YEAH YEAH
Love, love

You gotta fan a flame
(FLAME FLAME FIRE)
You gotta fan a flame
(FLAME FLAME FIRE)
You gotta fan a flame
Called love, love

Space is a place (LET ME OUT)
Space is a place (LET ME OUT)
Space is a place called love, love

Give me a sign

***(REPEAT)

Play it

OH OH OH

Only star in heaven
On my way to Hollywood
The minute i get there
The minute i get there
For love I stake this place
Say it again
Stake this place for love

You're the only star i heaven - YEAH
You're the only star that shines

Let me out

You're the only star i heaven
Now I know that star is mine

***(REPEAT)


THE POWER OF LOVE

I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door  
Feels like fire
I'm so in love with you
Dreams are like angels
They keep bad at bay-bad at bay
Love is the light
Scaring darkness away-yeah  
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal 
 
*The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
 
I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down I'll be around
With my undying, death-defying
Love for you  
Envy will hurt itself
Let yourself be beautiful
Sparkling love, flowers
And pearls and pretty girls
Love is like an energy
Rushin' rushin' inside of me 
 
*(Repeat)
 
This time we go sublime
Lovers entwine-divine divine
Love is danger, love is pleasure
Love is pure-the only treasure  
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal  
The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
The power of love
A force from above
A sky-scraping dove  
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal  
I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door 


BANG ...

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