Alan Rankine - The World Begins To Look Her Age
I posted an mp3 rip of this record back in the early days of ESWA (around March 2009), so it's about time I attempted a quality re-rip and have just about achieved it. Les Disques Du Crepuscule pressings varied greatly in quality, and after much cleaning, this dirty old record came out quite well.
Alan Rankine's contribution to music in the eighties is highly revered - he was the other Associate plus he contributed greatly to the works of Paul Haig and Anna Domino. He also had his hands on the production of all these, so there is no doubting his pedigree.
Without any doubt, this is a pop record and there are aspects of cheesy pop which will annoy a few, The Best In Me for instance, is as cheesy as cheesy can be, The Sandman is a great eighties synthpop single and but has the feel of chart fodder, also Mission For The Don is just pure MOR and Your Very Last Day sounds like a great long lost Paul Haig b-side. I like the title track a lot, though it does push your patience by running to nearly nine minutes. The World Begins To Look Her Age is without a doubt a pop album, but imho it is a very credible pop album and Rankine got a short deal with Virgin off the back of it with many of the tracks finding their way onto the follow-up She Loves Me Not.
Ripped from a vinyl album released on Les Disques Du Crepuscule (TWI 672) in 1986 to high quality lossless flac audio.
A1. Elephants Walk In The MorningA2. Mission For The Don
A3. Your Very Last Day
A4. The Best In Me
B1. The World Begins To Look Her Age
B2. The Sandman
B3. Last Bullet
B4. Love In Adversity
