Communards - Communards (1986)

Posted By: popsakov

Date: March 8, 2024

Communards is the debut album by The Communards, released in 1986 on London Records. The album was produced by Mike Thorne, who had previously produced lead singer Jimmy Somerville's earlier band, Bronski Beat. Although the singles released ahead of the album were only moderately successful, the first single to be lifted from it after release, "Don't Leave Me This Way", was number one in the UK for four weeks and was the top-selling single in the UK that year. During the single's four-week run at number one, the album itself reached a chart peak of number seven, going on to spend a total of 45 weeks in the UK Albums Chart. Musically, the album contains tracks that largely fall into one of two styles, either Hi-NRG (all of the singles lifted from the album were in this style) or piano ballads showcasing the talents of Richard Coles, a classically trained pianist. The standard "Lover Man" is arranged as a straight jazz number, albeit with the unusual twist of being performed as a duet.

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, All Music

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Track List:

01. Don't Leave Me This Way [6:26]
02. La Dolarosa [2:43]
03. Disenchanted [6:14]
04. Reprise [5:22]
05. So Cold The Night [6:48]
06. You Are My World [8:01]
07. Lover Man [3:52]
08. Don't Slip Away [2:58]
09. Heavens Above [3:59]
10. Forbidden Love [4:57]
11. Breadline Britain [2:31]
12. Disenchanted (Dance) [8:42]

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See also:

Jimmy Somerville - The Very... And The Communards (2001)

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