Mr. Mister - Go On … (LP) (1987) - €10,00

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Go On... is the third album by American pop rock band Mr. Mister. It was released in 1987, and featured a more serious tone than their previous album Welcome to the Real World, which was commercially successful. 
 This album did not fare as well commercially and would become the last publicly released album by the band before they broke up in 1990. 

For their third and final record, Go On, Mr. Mister made few changes. 
The record contained an uplifting pop/rock vibe that was consistent with their first two efforts. They continued to write songs in the vein of '80s pop bands like Mike & the Mechanics and Genesis, and their lyrics continued to center around the vaguely spiritual themes explored in their hit singles "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie." 
The only significant change was in record sales. Go On produced one moderately successful single, "Something Real (Inside Me/Inside You)," which lacked the killer hook of their previous hits, though it did include some compelling experiments with exotic keyboard sounds. 
The greatest strength of the record is its lyrical substance. Songwriters Richard Page, Steve George, Steve Farris, and John Lang are not the most skilled wordsmiths in pop music, but they find some laudable ways to express their favorite themes. 
"Man of a Thousand Dances" is written from the perspective of a man who is doggedly haunted by a presence that we begin to feel may be divine. 
"The Tube" blasts couch-potato culture and its illusory perfection: "I want to live in a dream that's neverending/ I want to love all the wasted time I'm spending." Released in 1987, during the height of the materialistic '80s, Go On was an example of a band using its pop culture bully pulpit to suggest that the "greed is good" philosophy was leaving a spiritual vacuum in American culture. 


Side one
1. Stand And Deliver - 5:32
2. Healing Waters - 5:45
3. Dust - 6:32
4. Something Real (Inside Me / Inside You) - 4:19
5. The Tube - 5:15

Side two
1. Control - 4:17
2. Watching The World - 4:21
3. Power Over Me - 5:02
4. Man Of A Thousand Dances - 4:50
5. The Border - 5:39


Mr. Mister


Additional personnel


Production
  • Kevin Killen – producer, engineer, mixing
  • Jimmy Hoyson – second engineer
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY).
  • Jonathan Owen MA (RCA) – cover illustration
  • Ria Lewerke – art direction
  • Norman Moore – art direction, design
  • Tracy Veal – design
  • Reed Anderson – liner photography
  • Georg Kushner – sleeve photography
  • Susan Gilman – production coordinator
  • Sherry Rettig – production coordinator
  • George Ghiz – manager

Notes
Release:  1987
Format:  LP
Genre:  Rock
Label:  RCA Records
Catalog#  PL86276

Vinyl:  Goed
Hoes:  Goed

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