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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Sept 17, 2016 9:53:50 GMT
Shine, Come To Me was released worldwide / Scandinavia while Twist In The Dark was released in France and Heart Of The Country was a flop in the UK.
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Sept 17, 2016 9:58:26 GMT
Shine / That's Tough
One Little Lie / I Don't Wanna Be Alone
Come To Me / Can't Be Serious
Comfort Me / I'm One Of God's Children
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Post by HOMETIME on Sept 17, 2016 10:49:54 GMT
Twist In The Dark/That's Tough
Shine/You Can't Be Serious
One Little Lie/When Love Turns To Lies
Come To Me (I Am Woman)/I'm One Of God's Children
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Sept 28, 2016 19:23:50 GMT
Here's a question to Epic, Why did Heart Of The Country get released as a single in the UK when you could've released Come to Me, Twist In The Dark or One Little Lie instead?
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Post by HOMETIME on Sept 28, 2016 21:01:09 GMT
The song was written by Stuart Adamson, lead singer of Big Country - and they were HUGE at the time. After the ballsy Shine stalled in the charts, I think Epic probably got nervous and looked for a quick fix. While Come To Me probably had the most commercial appeal of the single candidates, it strikes me that Epic were hoping to snap up the Big Country fans by going with Heart Of The Country, which was incredibly close to the band's own sound (no surprise: the lead singer wrote it; the band's drummer drummed on it; the band's producer produced it). The cynicism was too obvious to succeed. Only my opinion, of course.
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Post by Alan on Sept 28, 2016 21:06:38 GMT
Su Pollard (of Hi-De-Hi fame) released Come To Me (I Am Woman) in 1985 and it stalled at number 71. She had a number 2 hit the following year with a theme from a BBC TV series. Come To Me then got re-released and still bombed. It's therefore unlikely it would have been a hit for Frida.
Were Radio 1 playing any of the solo singles in the 80s? I somehow doubt it, so there was little chance of any track being a hit.
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Post by The Rubber Ball Man on Sept 28, 2016 21:14:42 GMT
She was funny in Benidorm!!!
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Post by HOMETIME on Sept 28, 2016 21:19:10 GMT
Hmm. Su's hit was virtually a novelty and her take on Come To Me was very cabaret. While it's the same song and the versions share some similarities, I think the label campaign is the big difference. Given the range of big hits in the 80s, I don't think Radio 1 was quite as ageist as it is these days. I certainly think that Frida's version of Come To Me could have done big business via Radio 2 - a station that would not have supported Shine, Twist In The Dark or even Heart Of The Country.
I still think the anti-ABBA thing was an undeniable factor - for instance, Agnetha's determinedly commercial singles and at least two more of the Chess singles should have performed a little better than they did, if you ask me. (I think Nobody's Side, The Arbiter and, above all, Anthem are hits that got away).
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Post by Liebezeit on Feb 5, 2017 0:30:14 GMT
Shine / Chemistry Tonight Slowly / I Don't Wanna Be Alone Come To Me (I Am Woman) / The Face Don't Do It / That's Tough Frida should have moved to Parlophone, CBS [Sony] or Virgin Records after she sold her shares to Polar Music. 'Not-so' Epic Records was neglectable toward her in promotion  But at least we have deep cuts of Frida's songs in most of this album. :-) |
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Post by welshboy on Apr 1, 2024 16:36:27 GMT
Just played the Shine Album and I have very much enjoyed it. When this first came out I was not a big fan as it was not like Abba. But as I have grown older the songs all have little fun parts to the music. And the whole look of the Album still looks fresh.
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Post by HOMETIME on Apr 1, 2024 17:38:59 GMT
I think Shine is the Frida album I return to most. I still rate it. Recently, I was lucky enough to hear two of the three unreleased tracks (Can't Be Serious and When Love Turns To Lies - a friend splashed out for bootlegs). Both of them great. An expanded 40th anniversary edition including these tracks would be a massive treat. In fact, I think a remix of Can't Be Serious would make a great single.
For illustrative purposes, here is a version released in 1985 by the little-known Ginny. Not a million miles from Frida's version.
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Post by foreverfan on Apr 1, 2024 17:49:34 GMT
By 84-86 the UK had had enough of ABBA in any form and nothing was going to be a hit, You could say that even the first two solo albums didn't produce any big hits here in the U.K., it was scandalous that IKTSGO was not a top 20/10 hit let alone not make the top 40.
The same goes for Shine , personally I thought the single was good, deserved to have been a hit but as said wrong time.. UK was not interested, in fact I've just found out that the album only sold around 5,000, no wonder Frida gave up and would take Agnetha another 10 years to try again..
So after the first flop single and the very low sales of the album, I would've left it there ...no more singles....
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