Welcome To The Pleasuredome (studio album) by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Welcome To The Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Year: 1984
Overall rank: 1,761st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 196 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1984 (29th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (276th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,761st)
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FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD “WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME” 1984 2X VINYL LP, EXC.
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75/100 (from 196 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 73.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.

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90/100
From 01/10/2025 06:02
Having heard "The Power of Love" and relistening to "Two Tribes" I stopped hating FGTH on principle. I finally bought the single and played it non-stop for several days. Despite having over-played it, the album remains, to my ears, a great work. It fares better, when you are no longer hounded by the hype and the videos, wherever you look. It is not the greatest ever pop music to come out of Merseyside, OF COURSE, but it's damned good.
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From 07/20/2024 13:53
Kinda wish there were fewer covers, but when this thing is on, it's really on.
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80/100
From 01/30/2022 08:36
Best tracks: Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Relax, Two Tribes, Power of Love. These songs alone make this a classic mid 80's album.
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From 01/03/2022 16:59
starts strong. fizzles. quite a few covers. pop
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From 11/27/2020 06:43
Frankie's debut No.1 album which had advance sales of over one million, includes 3 consecutive No.1 hits "Relax", "Two Tribes" & the truly haunting love ballad "The Power of Love". Also included is the 13m40s version of their No.2 hit "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" and their better than original cover versions of "Born to Run" and "War(and Hide)". Check out Prince Charles short interlude on "Tag" and Ronald Reagans conclusion with "Bang" - Frankie says no more!
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80/100
From 07/22/2019 15:25
Favorite Tracks:Two Tribes, Born To Run, The Ballad Of 32, Black Night White Light, Bang
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80/100
From 01/05/2019 14:38
Three number one singles in the UK on this album, more a Trevor Horn album than Frankie Goes to Hollywood with session musicians on many of the tracks, but a great album never-the-less.
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From 08/16/2018 17:59
An excellent album through and through. The influence of Trevor Horn is very evident on many tracks. Getting a single banned by Radio 1 at the time was a clever tactic and spearheaded the band into strardom. As much I like the classic hits, I equally love the slower less known tracks like 'Including the Ballad of 32' and 'The Only Star In Heaven'.
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75/100
From 02/05/2018 14:02
A little over the top at times, but definitely more interesting and with more of other people's material than I would have anticipated.
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85/100
From 06/27/2016 09:14
My favorite songs : Relax....The power of love.....Fury....Born to run....san jose.....Black night white light....War ....Welcome to the pleasuredome
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