Monday, January 14, 2019

The 1983 Listening Post - Tracey Ullman - You Broke My Heart in 17 Places

Tracey Ullman - You Broke My Heart in 17 Places

November 25 1983
Tracey Ullman
You Broke My Heart in 17 Places
4.5 out of 10
Highlights:
Breakaway
Long Live Love
Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
Bobby’s Girl
They Don’t Know
What a nice escape from the heavy handed BritSoul shit that I’ve been listening to. This is a pop. This is fun. Yes, it’s a covers album. But in such a heavy handed era, it’s so welcome.
And Kirsty MacColl deserved to have a hit song like “They Don’t Know”. There is a direct line that can be drawn from Tracey to Meaghan Trainor’s album, Title.
Utterly charming, retro without being nostalgic, poppy without being cloying, cute but never insipid.

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