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Simply Red - Stars (1991) Japanese Press

Posted By: Designol

Date: 20 Nov 2023 17:33:30

Stars is the fourth album by British-based pop/soul/jazz band Simply Red, released in September 1991. Five singles were released from the album, including the UK top ten hits "Stars" and "For Your Babies". The album was a worldwide success, particularly in the band's home country where it has been certified twelve times platinum and was the best-selling album of the year in the UK for both 1991 and 1992, the first album to be the best-seller in two consecutive years since Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water in 1970–71. As of July 2016 it is the 14th best-selling album of all time in the UK.

Although it doesn't have a single as strong as "Holding Back the Years" or "If You Don't Know Me by Now," Stars is Simply Red's best album since their debut. It's smoother and more polished than their previous work, yet Mick Hucknall is singing better than ever and his songwriting is improving. That is a good thing, too, since Stars is the first Simply Red album not to contain any cover songs. Having absorbed his pop, soul, and reggae influences, Hucknall is now successfully writing songs in his own style, something that, with the exception of "Holding Back the Years," he hadn't managed previously. The result, in Europe and especially the U.K., was a massive commercial breakthrough for the group. Stars even outsold Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at home. In America, where the band had never established much audience continuity beyond its two number one hit singles, it was a different story, which, given the band's highly American-influenced sound, was a confirmation of the overall decline of English bands in the U.S. in the early '90s.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com

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Tracklist:

01. Something Got Me Started (4:01)
02. Stars (4:08)
03. Thrill Me (5:04)
04. Your Mirror (4:00)
05. She's Got It Bad (3:34)
06. For Your Babies (4:17)
07. Model (3:47)
08. How Could I Fall (4:46)
09. Freedom (3:52)
10. Wonderland (3:49)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 18. September 2010, 16:21

Simply Red / Stars

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AccurateRip summary

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DR log

foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-05-24 16:30:37

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Analyzed: Simply Red / Stars
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 0.00 dB -12.54 dB 4:01 01-Something Got Me Started
DR10 -0.19 dB -11.86 dB 4:08 02-Stars
DR10 0.00 dB -12.19 dB 5:04 03-Thrill Me
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR11

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Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
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