Filth and Dreams
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Swing Out Sister
's sixth album, Filth and Dreams, was released in Japan in March 1999, and it remains the only album not released in any other country. This album featured stronger jazz leanings than some of their early pop-oriented albums, and is restrained in mood. For this record, SOS adapted to the growing popularity of hip-hop in the late '90s.
Filth and Dreams is the first album by the group not released in their native England, and is currently the most difficult CD to find.
Swing Out Sister
Swing Out Sister are a British "sophisti-pop" group best known worldwide for their 1986 song "Breakout". Other hits include "Surrender", "Twilight World", "Waiting Game" and a remake of "Am I the Same Girl?" Though album sales in the U.S. and Europe have levelled off since the early 1990s, the...
's sixth album, Filth and Dreams, was released in Japan in March 1999, and it remains the only album not released in any other country. This album featured stronger jazz leanings than some of their early pop-oriented albums, and is restrained in mood. For this record, SOS adapted to the growing popularity of hip-hop in the late '90s.
Filth and Dreams is the first album by the group not released in their native England, and is currently the most difficult CD to find.
Track listing
CD Version- "Who's Been Sleeping" (4:36)
- "Closer Than the Sun" (3:42)
- "Sugar Free" (4:29)
- "Filth and Dreams" (3:54)
- "Happy When You're High" (5:34)
- "If I Had the Heart" (4:21)
- "When Morning Comes" (4:27)
- "Invisible" (4:26)
- "World Out of Control" (3:59)
- "Make You Stay" (3:57)
- All songs written by Andy ConnellAndy ConnellAndrew John "Andy" Connell is an English musician and composer. Along with Corinne Drewery, he is part of the duo that makes up Swing Out Sister....
, Corinne DreweryCorinne DreweryCorinne Drewery is the lead singer of the pop music band, Swing Out Sister.-Early life:Drewery grew up in Nottingham and the Lincolnshire village of Authorpe and went to South Reston Primary School, then Monks' Dyke High School and King Edward VI Grammar School in nearby Louth, then Lincoln College...
and Paul Staveley O'DuffyPaul Staveley O'DuffyPaul O’Duffy is a British record producer, composer, mixer. He is best known for producing Swing Out Sister's Grammy-nominated multi-platinum debut album, for his BMI nomination as 'Producer of the Year' in 1987, and work with John Barry and other film score producing...