Thursday 26 July 2012

Go West 'Tracks Of My Tears'

Chart Peak: 16

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Go West are Peter Cox and Richard Drummie... They have been consistent hitmakers since 'We Close Our Eyes' in 1985 and this cover of the Smokey Robinson classic reached No. 16 in October 1993.
Well, if anyone ever asks you whether the same phrase appears as both a song title and the name of an act on the same Now album, here's your answer. Admittedly, it happens again on Now 27, but that's 'Doop' by Doop so it doesn't really count. I like the fact that 'Go West' is the second track on the album and Go West the band appear on the penultimate one.
"Consistent hitmakers" is one way of putting it. Or you could quote the notes to Now 1985 (released earlier in 1993 and supplied to me in the same cache of cassettes as this) which note that "'We Close Our Eyes', their first hit, is still their biggest to date". Either way, they were nearing the end of the road by this point, and this was their last new material for fifteen years, a doubtless contractually-obliged new track for a Greatest Hits album. It's not a bad version, to be fair, but it does sound exactly like you'd expect if you know the song, Peter Cox's voice and the approximate recording date. It feels soulless and pointless, and why would you ever choose to listen to this when you could listen to the original?


Also appearing on: Now 23
Available on: Greatest Hits

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