Reality Effect | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | the Tourists |
Cover: | Reality Effect.jpg |
Released: | October 1979 |
Recorded: | August 1979 |
Studio: | Olympic Studios and DJM Studios, London |
Label: | Logo Records Epic Records (US/Canada) |
Producer: | Tom Allom |
Prev Title: | The Tourists |
Prev Year: | 1979 |
Next Title: | Luminous Basement |
Next Year: | 1980 |
Reality Effect is the second album by the British band the Tourists, released in 1979.
This album received much more favourable reviews than the band's first album, with catchier songs and a stronger reliance on the vocals of singer Annie Lennox. The album contained two hit singles, "So Good to Be Back Home Again" (UK #8) and a cover of the 1964 Dusty Springfield song "I Only Want to Be With You" (UK #4).
Although the band featured Lennox and her future Eurythmics partner Dave Stewart on guitar, the bulk of the songs were written by singer/guitarist Peet Coombes. The album peaked at #23 on the UK Album Chart, and spent a total of sixteen weeks in the Top 100.
Smash Hits said, "Plenty of lasting writing talent but as much character as an iceberg. ELO would have been proud of some of this, but it's SO depressingly sombre. Let down by po-faced lyrics about 'life'."[1]
All tracks composed by Peet Coombes except where indicated
Side 1
Side 2
All tracks composed by Peet Coombes except where indicated
Side 1
Side 2
with:
Chart (1979/80) | Peak position | |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] | 62 | |
United Kingdom (Official Charts Company) | 23 |