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The BoDeans
Released 1987

Fool
04:29
976 plays

Dreams
03:33
2,376 plays

Only Love
03:06
2,188 plays

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- 1
- Dreams
- 03:33
- 2,376 plays

- 2
- Pick Up The Pieces
- 03:23
- 1,585 plays

- 3
- Take It Tomorrow
- 03:54
- 1,408 plays

- 4
- Say About Love
- 04:12
- 1,702 plays

- 5
- Don't Be Lonely
- 03:50
- 1,344 plays

- 6
- Runaway Love
- 03:56
- 1,089 plays

- 7
- Only Love
- 03:06
- 2,188 plays

- 8
- What It Feels Like
- 02:31
- 1,244 plays

- 9
- The Ballad Of Jenny Rae
- 03:50
- 1,664 plays

- 10
- Forever Young (The Wild Ones)
- 03:58
- 1,394 plays

- 11
- Someday
- 03:31
- 1,198 plays

- 12
- Fool
- 04:29
- 976 plays

- 13
- I'm In Trouble Again
- 04:27
- 1,182 plays

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album review

Having established themselves as contenders with their debut album, the BoDeans looked to move on to the next level in commercial and artistic terms on their second release, bringing in producer Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and expanding beyond their roots rock style, to the extent of occasionally singing in falsetto, adding female backup vocals, and recording near-soul pop numbers like "Runaway Love." But the songwriting wasn't as impressive, and the de-emphasis on such signature sounds as Sammy Llanas' nasal voice inclined the album toward anonymity. (Sequencing didn't help either: Why bury the album's best song, the Byrds-like "What It Feels Like," as the eighth track? In fact, the album improved generally in its second half, when it sounded more like the first record.) Although they broke into the Top 100 best-sellers, they failed to break a chart or radio single, which clouded their future. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide