Put The Needle On The Record - Week #60

Put The Needle On The Record Week #60 Blancmange - Mange Tout

For this weeks feature we go back to May 1984 and the Blancmange album "Mange Tout".

"Mange Tout" was the 2nd album released by Blancmange, the follow up to the excellent debut "Happy Families" and features some of the duo's best tracks, "Don't Tell Me", "Game Above My Head", "Blind Vision", "That's Love That It Is" and their sublime cover of the ABBA track "The Day Before You Came", I also think "Time Became The Tide" is a brilliant track, the rest of the tracks on the album aren't that good if I am being honest, fortunately the good stuff makes it a very listenable album. The other good thing about this album is that they released fabulous 12 inch extended versions of the singles all of which are brilliant, my favourite track on the album is probably a toss up between "Don't Tell Me" and "Blind Vision".

The album became the best selling album for the band and is probably the peak of their career.

Four singles were released off the album, "Blind Vision", which is my favourite track on the album (which reached number 10 in the UK Singles chart), "That's Love That It Is" (which surprisingly only reached number 33 in the UK Singles chart), "Don't Tell Me", (which reached number 8 in the UK Singles chart) and "The Day Before You Came" (which reached number 22 in the UK Singles chart).

The album reached number 8 on the UK Album chart.

Track Listing

Don't Tell Me
I'll Fly For YouGame Above My Head
Blind Vision
Time Became The Tide
That's Love That It Is
Murder
See The Train
All Things Are Nice
My Baby
The Day Before You Came

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