release date: Jan. 28, 1998
format: digital (18 x File, MP3)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5]
producer: various
label: BMG - nationality: Denmark
Compilation album by Danish synthpop band Gangway following the band's decision to call it quits in Sep. 1997 after poor sales numbers of their seventh studio album That's Life (Sep. 1996).
The album ums it up: Gangway was more than just 'one-hit wonders' - a term that was attributed the band after "My Girl and Me" open the doors to the British market in '86 but they weren't themselves aware of music business strategies and too many times ended up with people seing profit rather than a talent that needed nursing. The story is long, and it's full of examples of how you also need luck on your side, but the music is there to testify their talent. In the end the band was a trio consisting of songwriter and main composer Henrik Balling, keyboardist and other composer Torben Johansen, and vocalist Allan Jensen.
The eighteen songs here stem from all their seven studio albums from 1984 to 1996. They are mixed with one another but all show us the element of pop as a common denominator, and although, they have played with jangle pop, indie pop, r&b, and synthpop there's a positive spirit running through it all.
The debut album The Twist is only represented by one song: "Yellow", and their '96 finale only delivers two songs - revealing some of the feelings they have for that. The other albums deliver three songs each, except for The Quiet Boy Ate the Whole Cake (1991), which is the only be represented with four songs - again telling what that album means, and I'm completely with them: it was their best.
