Everything about this album is fantastic. I look into freinds collections and I always see they have All Change but not this one. Upon asking them why they often say I thought they only did one album. Like shite these are gems of songs and should be celebrated. Power is a great song writer and if you get the chance check out his solo album here:
All songs written by Power.
- "Free Me"
- "On The Run"
- "Live The Dream"
- "Soul Tied"
- "She Sun Shines"
- "I'm So Lonely"
- "Mad Hatter"
- "Mirror Me"
- "Guiding Star"
- "Never Gonna Tell You What To Do (Revolution)"
- "Dance Of The Stars"
For their second album, 1997s Mother Nature Calls, the fast paced guitar songs were replaced with a a more contemplative sound. The band continued to release radio-friendly material such as "Free Me". According to Power the title of the album was supposed to be tongue in cheek because Mother Nature is always calling (because of man's mortality), but also because he was on the toilet at the time he came up with the name. The band decided to once again use John Leckie to help record the album and the production was much more well-developed on this album, with the band using much more than the simple guitar-bass-drums mix as they had done on the previous album. John Power has blamed the initial poor reception on the album on the fact that it is a "grower" requiring much more patience than the more pop-based style of All Change and has claimed that a number of critics later told him that they felt they had changed their perceptions of the album. Despite this the album spawned another two top ten hits with "Live the Dream" and "Guiding Star" and one top twenty hit with "I'm So Lonely". The album peaked at #3, going platinum (according to the BPI), but many believe the album went at least double platinum, if not more, considering its chart peak.
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It's obvious to say, but Cast picked up where The La's left off, but Cast had waaaaayyyy better production.
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