Put The Needle On The Record - Week #58

Put The Needle On The Record Week #58 Alison Moyet - Alf

For this weeks feature we go back to November 1984 and the Alison Moyet album "Alf".

This was Alison Moyet's debut album, her first after Yazoo split and there is quite an interesting story surrounding this, In 1983, shortly before the release of their second Yazoo album "You And Me Both" in 1983, Yazoo announced that they were splitting up. Deciding to pursue a solo career, Moyet soon received various offers from different record companies. Moyet ended up signing to CBS for £1 million later that year. However, after signing the contract, Yazoo's American record company Warner Bros then put an injunction on her. The legal issues took a year to be resolved by settlement in 1984! That was something I never knew, so even I get to learn new things from doing these features! The album was produced by Steve Jolley and Tony Swain, who had previously worked with Spandau Ballet and Bananarama.

The singles released were the obvious highlights but other gems on the album, include "Where Hides Sleep" and "Honey For The Bees", it is an album that has stood the test of time quite well and for me, it is Alison's best album.

4 singles were released off the album, "Love Resurrection" (which reached number 10 on the UK Singles chart), "All Cried Out" (which reached number 8 in the UK Singles chart), "Invisible", my favourite Alison Moyet track, (which surprisingly only reached number 21 in the UK Singles chart) and "For You Only" that was released in Europe and the States.

The album reached number 1 in the UK Albums chart.

Track Listing

Love Resurrection
Honey For The Bees
For You Only
Invisible
Steal Me Blind
All Cried Out
Money Mile
Twisting The Knife
Where Hides Sleep

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