Put The Needle On The Record - Week #56

Put The Needle On The Record Week #56 Electronic - Electronic

For this weeks feature we go back to May 1991 and the Electronic album "Electronic".

The self titled debut album by Electronic is a masterpiece and so it should be, as it was a "Supergroup" that featured New Order's Bernard Sumner, Johnny Marr from The Smiths, as well as, Neil Tennent and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys, it is an album that went on to sell over one million copies (they were the days!)

The album was recorded in Manchester at Johnny Marr's home studio and made the best use of his guitar skills, and Bernard Sumner's passion for synthesizers, throw in a dose of Pet Shop Boys wit and you have the ingredients for a fabulous album, it doesn't disapppoint, it contains some outstanding tracks, "Getting Away With It" (for some strange reason this wasn't included on the first edition of the album but was added later on subsequent versions), "The Patience Of A Saint", both of which feature the Pet Shop Boys and are the strongest tracks on the album, how the latter wasn't a single I will never know. Other highlights include, "Get The Message", ""Reality", "Tighten Up" and "Feel Every Beat".

3 singles were released off the album, if you include "Getting Away With It", which was their debut single (which reached number 12 in the UK Singles chart, it did well in America too, reaching number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100), "Get The Message" (which reached number 8 in the UK Singles chart) and "Feel Every Beat" (which reached number 39 in the UK Singles chart)

The album reached number 2 in the UK Albums chart.

Track Listing

Idiot Country
Reality
Tighten Up
The Patience Of A Saint
Getting Away With It
Gangster
Soviet
Get The Message
Try All You Want
Some Distant Memory
Feel Every Beat

If you have this album in your collection, dig it out and give it a spin!