Dancing on the Couch
Dancing on the Couch is the second studio album by the English pop duo Go West. It was released on 26 May 1987 and reached number 19 on the UK Albums Chart.
The album was recorded at Puk Studios in Denmark and Old School House on the Isle of Man. Recording began in June 1986. It was originally planned for a late-1986 release, but a computer fault at Puk Studios delayed it until 1987. Despite the delay, the single True Colours was released in November 1986.
The American version of the album had a different cover and replaced the track Let’s Build a Boat with Don’t Look Down – The Sequel, which became Go West’s first Top 40 hit in the United States.
A deluxe edition released on 26 January 2024 by Chrysalis includes three CDs and a DVD, remastered by Gary Stevenson. It features a disc of B-sides, remixes and rarities, plus a third disc with the Runaway Train Tour: Live at Hammersmith Odeon, and a concert DVD.
Singles from the album were True Colours (November 1986), I Want to Hear It from You (April 1987), The King Is Dead (August 1987), and From Baltimore to Paris (November 1987).
All tracks were written by Peter Cox and Richard Drummie, with additional writing by Alan Murphy on tracks 3, 7 and 9. In Go West’s discography, Dancing on the Couch sits after Bangs & Crashes (1986) and before Indian Summer (1992).
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