Eurogliders - Absolutely

Name: Eurogliders
Album: Absolutely
Year: 1986
Style: Light Rock, Adult Contemporary
Similar Bands: Bangles, Animotion, Shakespears Sister, Boom Crash Opera,
"One-Word" Review:
Based Out Of: Perth, Australia
Label: Columbia, CBS

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Absolutely (1986)

1. Can't Wait to See You 4:13 (single)
2. The City of Soul 4:49 (single)
3. What Kind of Fool 3:49
4. So Tough 3:41
5. We Will Together 4:32 (single) /
6. Absolutely 4:37 (single)
7. Jesse 4:30
8. Moving Away 4:08
9. Enough Love 3:57

Album Rating (1-10): 5.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Bernie Lynch - Vox, Guitar, Keys, Producer (the Stockings, Living Single, Kam Sha)
• Grace Knight - Vox (Living Single, Australian Olympians, Kam Sha, Oz Art for Ozone, Olivia Newton-John)
• John Bennetts - Drums, Percussion, Programming (Eartha Kitt, Dangerzone)
• Ron Francois - Bass (Strutters, Lene Lovich, Teardrop Explodes, James Reyne, Wendy Matthews, Sinceros, Absent Friends, Kaylan, Ganggajand, Fingerprintz, Nick Plytas, Valerie Lagrange, Julian Cope, Cabo Frio, Aleesha Rome)
• Amanda Vincent - Keys (Living Single, Thompson Twins, Boy George, Tim Finn, QED, Renee Geyer, Mondo Rock, Jenny Morris, Billy Bragg, Moodswings, Camelle Hinds)
• Crispin Akerman - Guitar (Living Single)
• Bill Scheniman - Producer. Recording & Mixing
• David Quinn - Additional Engineering
• Peter Cobbin - Additional Engineering
• Tim Kramer - Additional Engineering
• Chris Porter - Producer, Engineer
• Brian Peacock - Mgmt
• Chris Gunn - Mgmt
• Adrienne Overall - Photo Painting

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, and i'll be honest: the year 1986 made me quite hesitant to buy this, as much of this has the production styling of dead drums and one-dimensional synth smoothness. But i do like a good female fronted band, so i wanted to give this band a try. I'm still expecting adult contemporary pop with the bad late 80's production sound.

Album Review: And the sound is spot on...i still can't imagine what people were thinking when these studio albums came back and sounded like they were created entirely digitally without a soul. The band started in 1981, and enjoyed success with many singles, their biggest was Heaven (top 5 hit). Grace Knight and Bernie Lynch (he asked her, his then girlfriend, eventually short-lived wife, to be in his band Living Single as it was before a words-out-of-a-hat name change, (there was another Living Single)) still perform together as the Eurogliders as of 2018.

Stand Out Track: Can't Wait to See You

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