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Moonlight On Water 4:39
Andy Goldmark, Stephen Kipner; Nonpareil / EMI April Music / Stephen A Kipner Music
Bad Attitude 4:00
Paul Bliss & Stephen Kipner; EMI April Music / Stephen A Kipner Music / Paul Bliss Music
Never In A Million Years 4:08
Van Stephenson, Dave Robbins & Bob Farrell; Warner Tamerlane Pub. / WB Music / Uncle Beave / Mint To Be Music
Smoke Screen 4:06
Stephen Kipner & Cliff Magness; EMI April Music / Stephen A Kipner Music / Magnified Music
Let Me In 5:18
Dennis Matkosky & Paul Gordon; Geffen Music / Matkosky Music / Chappell & Co. / French Serf Music
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Turn The Beat Around 4:22
Gerald Jackson & Peter Jackson; Unichappell Music
Unison 4:40
Bruce Roberts & Andy Goldmark; WB Music / Rewind Music / Waner Tamerlane Music / Sprocket Music
No Promise, No Guarantee 5:00
Bonnie Karlyle & Pat Robinson; Hot Ticket Music / Watchpocket Music / Music Of The World Inc.
Reverse Psychology 3:33
Stephen Kipner & Cliff Magness; EMI April Music / Stephen A Kipner Music / Magnified Music
The Best Was Yet To Come 3:21
Bryan Adams & Vallance; Irving Music / Calypso Toonz/Adams Communications
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Executive Producer - Doug Morris
Plus
Richard Perry, Peter Wolf,
Laura Branigan, Steve Lindsey,
Dennis Matkosky, Peter Bunetta,
Rick Chudacoff, Steve Kipner &
Clif Magness
82086-2
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NOTE:
Singles released "Moonlight On Water", "Never In A Million Years", "Turn The Beat Around"
This is the first time Laura gets to produce some material on her Albums.
Celine Dion again uses a song that Laura first sang, "Unison".
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Short on ideas even with a three-year layoff (they couldn't even think of an album title!), the Laura Branigan brain trust, led by executive producer (and now Warner Music-U.S. chairman/CEO) Doug Morris put its faith in drum programs to carry a collection of mediocre originals, a lame cover of Vicki Sue Robinson's dance classic "Turn The Beat Around," and a Bryan Adams castoff. Branigan sang with her usual gusto, but even slick producers like Richard Perry and Peter Wolf couldn't animate the material. Leadoff track "Moonlight On Water" saw a little singles chart action, but Laura Branigan's sixth album was her least successful effort so far, failing to break into the top 100 best-sellers.
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There's a chilling word that record companies use. What you and I call "music," they call "product." Laura Branigan's last album, Touch, sounded like product; it was a pop wasteland, music for a Styrofoam landscape. This new one is better. It's just as full of songs panting just as
hard to be on the radio, but its rhythms are darker, tougher, far more "street." Branigan must have been born with a sob in her voice, and here, far more than on Touch, that sob casts
passionate shadows over everything she sings. Listen to the album's first single, "Moonlight on Water," and you might be seduced into believing Branigan's breathless images of what
I guess is meant to be life fully lived: "riding wild horses," "sex on the beach." Stay to the end, and maybe you'll even buy the uplift of the closing anthem, "The Best Was Yet to Come,"
complete with synthesizers plush as pillows and a glowing boy's choir.
It might occur to you that you've heard songs like these many times before. That's because you have. The lyrics of "Bad Attitude" string together more cliches than you might have thought
possible: "diamond in the rough"; "arrow through my heart"; "I've only got myself to blame."
But then "Bad Attitude" is also the song in which Branigan, like a model modern woman, ditches the guy she just can't rely on. So I admit it: I'm seduced. Call this album a guilty pleasure and watch for "Moonlight on Water" to swarm all over pop radio. But you might
not be seeing it on MTV. The video is full of inscrutable Significance, conveyed through
incoherent shots of ballerinas and clowns. The director just should have shown us Branigan (who, when we do see her, looks dusky and full of genuine emotion). Or, for variety,
moonlight on water, riding wild horses or sex on the beach.
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LAURA BRANIGAN Laura Branigan Lambada! No, wait a minute -- wrong dance imperative. Get down! This is a disco recidivist album, full of rhythm-defined dance pop -- and very attractive rhythm-defined dance pop it is too, despite the fact that it seems a bit dated. Branigan has a steely voice that can cut through the synthesizer overlay, and there are effective, rechargeable tunes, such as ''Bad Attitude'' (Paul Bliss-Stephen Kipner) and ''Unison'' (Bruce Roberts-Andy Goldmark). Oddly enough, the vintage disco tune ''Turn the Beat Around,'' a 1976 hit for Vicky Sue Robinson, seems on the lame and halt side, certainly nowhere near as effective as Branigan's revival of ''Name Game'' on her previous album, Touch. While Branigan tends toward the histrionic, her slower-tempo tunes -- especially ''Never in a Million Years'' -- make for effective pace changers amidst all the belting. She seems capable of moving out of dance mode one of these days. Laura is clearly not out to lull anyone with this album. At 32, she's a little too mature to be Madonna and Paula Abdul's sorority sister and not quite mature enough to be their housemother, but there's a relationship there somewhere. (Atlantic) -- R.N.
People Magazine
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