STOCK AITKEN WATERMAN PRODUCTION SPECIAL!

Flashback! 1988...

BROTHER BEYOND!

GET EVEN

1. He Ain't No Competition

2. Can You Keep A Secret?

3. Chain-Gang Smile

4. Restless

5. How Many Times

6. Be My Twin

7. The Harder I Try

8. I Should Have Lied

9. Shipwrecked

10. King Of Blue

11. Act For Love (Extended Version)

12. Sometimes Good, Sometimes Bad, (Sometimes Better)

Produced By S/A/W / Phil Harding / Ian Curnow / Brother Beyond / Mike Pela / Don Was / Richard James / Michael Brauer.

Mixed By Mixmaster Pete Hammond for PWL.

Additional Production and Remix By Stephen Hague for track no. 4.

S/A/W has indeed again introduced another *80's boy-band* - Brother Beyond into the music lime-light with this debuted album. Or rather brought Nathan, the lead singer into the music industry as far as the other three are... nothing much! Sorry about that if you knew what I meant ;)

I think the best song from Brother Beyond on this featured album or rather for all times should be non-other than this track "The Harder I Try". On the other hand, I would rank "He Ain't No Competition" as the *BEST* (long-forgotten) track from Brother Beyond instead! This song is seldom heard elsewhere and never on the national radio for so many years now. If you haven't heard this great track, please do so and I'm sure you will find it familiar.

Meanwhile, Brother Beyond did release another album titled "Trust". And it did feature some pretty good tracks like "Drive On" and their popular cover "When Will I See You Again" (In addition and just for your info, in my opinion the best cover for this track should go to Thomas Anders's (Modern Talking) version!)

Finally, Brother Beyond had already spilt up. But the good news is Nathan has found a new group, World Aparts which gave us 90's eurodance music! I got to say that the members from the group look much more lively than his ex-group though. And Nathan has also groom up into a more better looking side! I'm sure you will agree with me with this one ;) By the way, their music is great too! For instance, "Baby Come Back", "Just Say I Said Hello", "Everlasting Love" (cover), "Je Te Donna" (this is a GREAT track(!) and if you happened to have this CD single, please let me know.), etc. Please do check it out World Aparts if you are into Brother Beyond.

Once again I would recommand anyone to get that greatest hits compilation by S/A/W if you don't own many songs from them. Well, it is still a great S/A/W compilation CD to own especially the France version! Please go to the S/A/W special section for more details.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this new section especially devoted to Stock Aitken Waterman production. There will be more updates to come by. Nevertheless, please don't hesitate to send your opinions or suggestions to me and if you want this section to stay permanently. Thank you.

Rating ***1/2

P.S. World Aparts is also a S/A/W related group.

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