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| | Belinda | | | Music Artist : | | Belinda Carlisle | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Mca | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Mad About You
2. I Need a Disguise
3. Since You've Gone
4. I Feel the Magic
5. I Never Wanted a Rich Man
6. Band of Gold
7. Gotta Get to You
8. From the Heart
9. Shot in the Dark
10. Stuff and Nonsense
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Good start but it got better from here....
Submitted on: 2009-03-28 |
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| Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1TZS3ADFPKLLU |
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 Decent debut cassette
Submitted on: 2009-01-25 |
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Belinda is thirty-seven minutes and eight seconds long and was released on June 3, 1986. Belinda reached #13 on the Billboard 200 Album charts and went Gold. The cassette released three singles from it and only two hit the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. If you are looking for the Go-Go sound in this cassette, it is not there. This is truly Belinda Carlisle doing her own music. So some of the songs don't have that pop beat to it. Still this is a great cassette to listen to. Belinda gets a B+.
Side One
Mad About You
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#29 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary
#21 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play
#19 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
I Need A Disguise
Sine You've Gone
I Feel the Magic
#82 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
I Never Wanted A Rich Man
Side Two
Band of Gold
#26 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play
#38 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
Gotta Get To You
From the Heart
Short In the Dark
Stuff and Nonsense |
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 I will forever be mad about Belinda
Submitted on: 2002-07-24 |
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| From the moment I first heard Mad About You, I was a Belinda Carlisle fan for life. It is one of the quintessential songs of the 1980s, yet it still remains fresh and vibrant today. I have more memories invested in that song than any other from my teenaged years. While there is a significant amount of collaboration with Charlotte Caffey on the album as a whole, this music is distinctly superior from that of the Go-Go's. Belinda's style and sound would continue to grow and mature over time, but clearly the public connected most strongly with this and the subsequent Heaven on Earth releases. While Mad About You was a pretty big hit, the only other track to achieve any success was the catchy, feel-good song I Feel the Magic. However, there are some other real gems on this album that I think could have been big hits. Gotta Get To You is a pretty rocking song that does have an air of the Go-Go's to it, but it surpasses even the best song from the old group. I love Belinda's voice; every word she sings sounds sincere and heartfelt. Her voice also has a unique undercurrent of passion to it at times that makes her slower, sadder songs much more appealing and emotional. Without a doubt, the most powerful song on this album is Since You've Gone; mixing verses of soft regret and heartache with pumping choruses of forceful anguish, it's a song to treasure and seek comfort in. I Never Wanted a Rich Man and From the Heart are two slow, beautiful songs, but even they cannot compete with Stuff and Nonsense. Belinda had a habit of including a slow, melancholy ballad at the end of her early albums that differed significantly from the more beat-driven songs leading up to it. Stuff and Nonsense showcases the wonderful, passionate, underappreciated voice of this singer; the sound is far removed from the often meaningless lyrical stylings of the late Go-Go's period. Belinda Carlisle can sing love ballads with the very best of them. With less than 38 minutes of music, the album may seem relatively short now, but 38 minutes was a typical running time for albums released in the mid-1980s. I cannot help picture Belinda Carlisle as she appeared in the two videos for this album whenever I listen to these tracks--blonde, beautiful, and happy. In a pretty short period of time after the breakup of the troubled Go-Go's, she had turned her life completely around, and the obvious happiness she felt comes through clearly in her singing. I think this CD captures the essence of Belinda Carlisle better than any other (although I don't consider this her best album). As one song says, "it's all from the heart," and I can say that Belinda definitely captured my own heart with this wonderful album. |
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Do you feel the Magic?!!
Submitted on: 2002-03-26 |
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| This is the awesome 1986 debut solo album by the great Belinda Carlisle. Also the last on the I.R.S. record label, the label that she had been with on the GO-GO's first three albums,(1981-84). This album is short and sweet, clocking in at just under 38 minutes. The first song is the classic smash 'Mad About You', upbeat and cheerful, a personal fav of mine. She displays her great vocal range very well on that song. 'Gotta Get To You' is catchy, with a cool saxophone solo in the bridge. 'I Need A Disguise' is a cool song, with a great beat, also Susanna Hoffs from the Bangles co-wrote and sang backup on this song. 'I Feel The Magic' is just plain fun and cheerful. 'Shot In The Dark' has a cool synthesizer rhythm, and great guitar fills. There is also a great mix of slow ballads, 'Since You've Gone', 'Stuff And Nonsense'(simply angelic vocals on that song) and 'From The Heart'. This one has it all, Great musicianship, arrangements, song writing, and Belinda Carlisle with her beautiful, fantastic vocals. Complete lyrics to all songs are included in the booklet. Also, most songs were co-written by her fellow GO-GO Charlotte Caffey. This album is also hard to come by, so don't pass up a chance to buy it. It is truly a great travesty that this album is out of print now. If you don't have it, get it, ROCK ON!! |
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Belinda's first album is a star!!
Submitted on: 2002-01-10 |
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| The songs on Belinda's first solo album was as good of a success as any of the Gogos albums. It hit #13 on the charts and spawned the number 3 hit 'mad about you' i recommend this cd to anyone who likes Belinda or the gogos, or especially 80's music. Five stars all the way. |
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