Retro Spins: Laura Branigan - Hold Me

Here we go again, continuing the journey through the Queen of Liberal Borrowing of Other People's Material. I'm talking about Laura Branigan, the industry mouthpiece for other people's hard work, or cover artist. It appears that the rest of the world caught on at this point, and as a result, her sales quickly dipped out. The once platinum selling (clearing throat) "artist", was now not even selling enough albums to be certified at all.

I'm kind of annoyed that I have all of Branigan's albums from the 80's. Mainly because this expensive adventure hasn't paid off. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm subjecting myself to her music. Maybe this is because I'm just overly worked up about it, or maybe it's valid, and the juice just hasn't been worth the squeeze. Whatever the reason, I'm begrudgingly jumping into her 1985 released, Hold Me.

While out of the gate I wasn't impressed, my self contained rage slowly dissipated by track two, Maybe Tonight. It was a solid toe tapper. Ironic because of the first side of the album, it's the only one that wasn't released as a single.

Taking a leapfrog over the bland, and aptly titled, Foolish Lullaby, we then come to the tune which I bought the album for, Spanish Eddie. It's unfortunately after this great tune that we come to her cover of Alphaville's Forever Young. She does her best, I suppose, but it's just inferior to the original vocals of Marian Gold.

Branigan returns to the Michael Bolton well to record I Found Someone. Much like his prior song, How Am I Supposed To Live Without You, she does a serviceable job. However, the definitive rendition award goes to Cher for her self titled 1987 comeback album.

Overall, it was an okay album, but nothing to write home about, nor get excited for. I've got one more album from her to listen to, and candidly, I'm not necessarily chomping at the bit to do so. I'll definitely get to it though.

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