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Into The Gap (CD)

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The Thompson Twins Artist Snapshot:

Starting in the early 1980s as a large ensemble of quirky, guitar-based U.K. new wavers, the Thompson Twins scaled down to a trio after their first two albums and streamlined their music to a melodic-but-danceable synth-pop sound. The slimmed-down lineup of Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, and Joe Leeway took that sound to the top of the charts throughout the '80s on both sides of the Atlantic, with such hits as "Doctor! Doctor!" and "Hold Me Now." The Twins hung it up in the early '90s, Currie and Bailey subsequently incorporating ambient electronica influences in their duo project, Babble.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Into The Gap (CD) Album By Thompson Twins (The)
1   Doctor Doctor  
2   You Take Me Up  
3   Day After Day  
4   Sister Of Mercy  
5   No Peace For The Wicked  
6   Gap, The  
7   Hold Me Now  
8   Storm On The Sea  
9   Who Can Stop The Rain  
10   Leopard Ray  
11   Doctor! Doctor!  
12   Panic Station (Day After Day)  
13   Down Tools  
14   Hold Me Now  
15   Funeral Dance (No Peace For The Wicked)  
 
DISC 2 for Into The Gap (CD) Album By Thompson Twins (The)
1   Compass Points (The Gap)  
2   Still Water (Storm On The Sea)  
3   You Take Me Up (Machines Take Me Over) [12" Version]  
4   Sisters Of Mercy [12" Version]  
5   Let Loving Start [12" Version]  
6   You Take Me Up [High Plains Mixer] [US 12" Remix] - (remix)  
7   Nurse Shark  
8   Passion Planet  
9   You Take Me Up [Instrumental Remix] - (remix)  
10   Out Of The Gap [Megamix Extended Version]  
 

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Review

CMJ (1/5/04, p.14) - Ranked #10 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1984"

Title Note

Thompson Twins: Tom Bailey (vocals, guitar, harmonica, synthesizer, programming); Alannah Currie (marimba, xylophone, percussion, background vocals); Joe Leeway (synthesizer, congas, background vocals).

1984's INTO THE GAP is the most commercially successful album by the Thompson Twins; it's also one of their best and most consistent releases. Its predecessor, SIDE KICKS, included a few catchy, danceable pop songs amid the droning, heavy postpunk of the Twins' first two albums. INTO THE GAP, however, was all pop, and contained a handful of irresistible, exquisite singles which were as good as anything on UK or US charts of the time.

"Hold Me Now," "Doctor Doctor" and "You Take Me Up" are classics of the MTV era, and unlike many hit singles of the time, don't sound dated. The darker, murkier tracks "Sister of Mercy" and "The Gap" are nearly as good. Alex Sadkin's sparkling production places Tom Bailey's swell pop voice and the quirky vocal talents of Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway in the proper ratio; the arrangements are clever and detailed.

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