maandag 13 november 2017

Kirsty MacColl - Electric Landlady (1991)

Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was an English singer and songwriter. She recorded several pop hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" and cover versions of Billy Bragg's "A New England" and The Kinks' "Days".
Her recording of "They Don't Know" was covered with great success by Tracey Ullman.
Releasing the album Electric Landlady, Kirsty MacColl's third studio album. Released in 1991, it was her second Virgin Records release and second collaboration with producer/husband Steve Lillywhite. The title was given when MacColl found it to be the name that was accidentally written on some early pressings of Jimi Hendrix's album Electric Ladyland.
Electric Landlady (coined by Johnny Marr, a play on the Jimi Hendrix album title Electric Ladyland), including her most successful chart hit in North America, "Walking Down Madison" (co-written with Marr and a Top 30 hit in the UK), in 1991. Despite the song's U.S. chart success.
The longest song of the album, it features guest vocals by rapper Aniff Cousins, and was originally written for Alison Moyet.

Tracklisting

1. "Walking Down Madison" 6:35 (MacColl, Johnny Marr)
2. "All I Ever Wanted" 3:51 (MacColl, Marshall Crenshaw)
3. "Children of the Revolution" 4:00 (MacColl, Johnny Marr)
4. "Halloween" 3:38
5. "My Affair" 5:25
6. "Lying Down" 4:51 (MacColl, Pete Glenister)
7. "He Never Mentioned Love" 3:53 (MacColl, Jem Finer)
8. "We'll Never Pass This Way Again" 4:33
9. "The Hardest Word" 4:36 (MacColl, Hamish MacColl)
10. "Maybe It's Imaginary" 2:13
11. "My Way Home" 4:27 (MacColl, Pete Glenister)
12. "The One and Only" 3:42
All tracks composed by Kirsty MacColl and Mark E. Nevin; except where indicated

Notes
Released: 25 June 1991
Genre: pop rock
Length: 51:49
Label: Virgin Records

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