Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

I have heard some of these songs on the radio, but didn't really care for them then, and definitely didn't care about them now.

I skipped around a lot. Even Wishing Well, which I remembered wasn't all that great. Light pop R&B, nothing special to me.

Didn’t bother to listen. Didn’t like it 40 years ago, no desire to listen now.

Didn't expect to like it but didn't expect to hate it this much. Doesn't even have his one good song, "Wishing Well."

It was shit then, and it’s still shit now. One star for consistency

This kinda sounds like 90s Prince but more boring.

Med på at hans stemme er imponerende men sys ikke rent faktisk det lyder godt -- kedelig produktion, og ikke rigtig nogen bangers

nah bro, disney ass shit

This is 80s trash

It was very old sounding, mid

Kirkland brand Motown?

Didn’t like. Some nice songs but nothing particularly special

Maybe it's not that bad but I can't stand it. Was very hard to finish.

I like "Sign Your Name". I blame nostalgia, but it's a nice, modest tune. The rest of this, including Wishing Well - the other one I had known - is not good. At all. The insane Sgt. Pepper nonsense and the Uuhh, I dreamt of a new name: SANANDA (Chakra & Crystal Healing, Orgone Towers) does not help. Embarassing.

We already had enough Michael Jackson albums on this list without adding in pound shop Michael Jackson knockoffs.

Not my style at all.

💤

Boring

Bruh, skip

Did not like it in '87 - still don't like it in 2024. He looks too Milli-Vanilli in Wishing Well.

I did not like this at all. I don’t like Prince and I don’t like MJ, this album felt like mixture of both. It’s was like stepping on dog shit and cleaning it off to only step on more. 2/10

It’s like listening to a cheap knock off version of Prince. I’m sure he’s very talented, but I don’t hear anything original or why it was so celebrated in the UK on release. Pass. Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: didn’t pay attention

Every song sounds like the ending of Ghostbusters 2 where they're inside the Statue of Liberty. Not a fan.

If this guy was half as good as he thinks he is he'd be the best artist of all time. This is over the top in the wrong ways and missing any substance. The amount of artists who are miles ahead of him who he is ripping off is wild. The song Let's Go Forward felt like it was 45 minutes.

I tried to find something I liked about this but I couldn't. The music sounds like karaoke music and I don't think the vocals are anything special. I feel like there is better music before and after this in which the music just has more soul, more funk.

Not for me. 1/5

Whoo boy, what to say about this one? Vocally, it's impressive. Terence goes out of his way to belt almost every note, aside from a few tracks where it goes, stylistically, more R&B. It wears on you after a while. The production is that late 80s/early 90s sound that I just never got in to, so another mark against it. I think this might escape my graveyard if it was shorter, and if the songs cut off after a little while, but it just wants to show off so. badly.

No dance music will ever be good for me

Sappy, poppy soul. Not my thing at all. Whatever year this was made, I would imagine it sounds very much like the type of record that was being made that year.

If the most deluded person you knew made an album it would sound like this. This is a self-serious Prince/MJ knockoff who just cannot avoid the cartoonist and ridiculous aspects of the genre. Every single goofy aspect of funk/soul/rock in the 80's slapped together. I do not understand why this is on this list of classic albums.

Hard one star. This dude works really hard and it's still crazy boring. Despite his claims, this is no Sgt. Peppers. This just sucks.

Found on Wikipedia: 'In 2012, journalist Daryl Easlea said the album was crystallized as Trent's moment, "a soundtrack to the turning point when the 80s turned from austerity to prosperity. It's as central to that decade as the much-seen image of the city trader waving his wad of banknotes to the camera. It remains one big, infectiously glorious record."' If this is the sort of thing this album evokes to "music experts" decades later after its release, then it fully deserves the one-star grade I would have given it even if I had not read that ridiculous comment. Wave your wad of banknotes someplace else. The production values of this LP have aged horribly, even if you follow the standards of commercial music during the eighties. Worse, Terence Trent D'Arby are extrememly grating for the most part. So, next, please. Number of albums left to review: 526 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 227 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 109 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 139 (including this one)

Sounds pretty well put together and he has a good voice. Just not for me. Really wasn't enjoying it by the end. 1 seems harsh, but there's no way I would be going back to this

No 1/5

i hated it. 80s leisure, exposure, thoughtlessness. it was bad.

What the fuck was that

did not care for this, not much of a pop fan

Horseshit!

Lost me at the first MJ hee-hee

This was the first big miss for me. I honestly did not enjoy any aspect of it. I'm sorry to anyone who has positive feelings about this album, but it just did nothing for me. I listened to it all the way through with good headphones, but it took a lot of willpower to make it to the end.

Didn’t care for this album.

Maybe this album is a victim of mood listening to it but like stfu Terence, she said gtfo.

I don't see what's so special save for wishing well. As an album it's ok I guess

No me gustó

This album is a deterrent by nectar- a pretty sweet voice (except for the high screams he misses), but generally awful songs.

Neee 1

Pure garbage

1987: Wishing Well

me ripped off my pants today in public

Good