Catch as Catch Can

Catch as Catch Can

by Kim Wilde
Catch as Catch Can

Catch as Catch Can

by Kim Wilde

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Overview

Kim Wilde's third album was never released in the U.S. -- EMI America had dropped the singer after 1982's career high point, Select, didn't spawn any hits -- which is a shame since this admittedly uneven album is a key transition point in her career. Catch as Catch Can is probably Wilde's most experimental album, a continuation of the dark-hued synth rock feel of Select with hints of the more commercial dance-pop sound that would characterize the rest of her career. Certainly the first single, the gimmicky, campy strut "Love Blonde," is the oddest single of Wilde's career. Elsewhere, the genuinely beautiful ballad "Can You Hear It" (probably the prettiest song Wilde ever recorded), "Sparks," and the quirky "Dream Sequence" have an atmospheric, nearly psychedelic tinge, thanks to hazy backing vocals and diffused, dreamy arrangements. However, other songs like the opening "House of Salome" and the stuttering "Back Street Joe" point toward the purely electronic Hi-NRG disco sound that would characterize 1984's Teases & Dares, and indeed pretty much every Kim Wilde release thereafter. [The 2009 edition added five bonus tracks including a remix of "Dancing in the Dark" by Nile Rodgers.] ~ Stewart Mason

Product Details

Release Date: 06/23/2009
Label: Cherry Pop
UPC: 5013929422223
Rank: 119610

Tracks

  1. House of Salome
  2. Back Street Joe
  3. Stay Awhile
  4. Love Blonde
  5. Dream Sequence
  6. Dancing in the Dark
  7. Shoot to Disable
  8. Can You Hear It
  9. Sparks
  10. Sing It out for Love
  11. Love Blonde
  12. Back Street Driver
  13. Love Blonde
  14. Dancing in the Dark [Nile Rodgers Re-Mix]
  15. Dancing in the Dark

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Kim Wilde   Primary Artist
Craig Hardy   Keyboards
Michael Hurll   Director
Ron Isted   Director
David Taylor   Director
Mike Mansfield   Director
Tim Pope   Director

Technical Credits

Tom Parker   A&R,Remixing
Craig Hardy   Programming
Glenn Howard   Editing
Ricky Wilde   Composer
Popfidelity Allstars   Producer,Remixing
Luke Nutley   Executive Producer
Paul Gurvitz   Composer
Kim Wilde   Composer
Steve Thorpe   Liner Notes
James Blair   Remixing,Producer
Adrian Gurvitz   Composer
Arthur Schwartz   Composer
Ricki Wilde   Composer
Howard Dietz   Composer
Marty Wilde   Composer
Nicky Chinn   Composer
Nile Rodgers   Mixing
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