Welcome to the Pleasuredome
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Welcome to the Pleasuredome was the debut album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, first released in the UK in October 1984 by ZTT/Island Records. Originally issued as a vinyl double album, it was assured of a UK chart entry at number one due to reported advance sales of over one million.
Whilst commercially successful, the album also drew criticism for containing new versions of the group's (already much-remixed) hit singles from the same year ("Relax" and "Two Tribes", plus B-side "War"), as well as a surfeit of cover versions in lieu of much new original material.
However, the album's evergreen ballad "The Power of Love" would subsequently provide the group with their third consecutive UK number one single.
The artwork is loaded with texts, quotes, dialogues and citations, referring to persons as diverse as Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kurt Weill, Virginia Woolf...
Booklet
On the back cover of the vinyl album and in the booklet on the CD edition, the next works of world literature are mentioned:
- The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard
- Aurélie by Gérard de Nerval
- The Flowers of Evil von Charles Baudelaire
- The Songs of Maldoror von Comte de Lautréamont
- The Birth of Tragedy von Friedrich Nietzsche
- La Bête humaine von Émile Zola
- Hunger von Knut Hamsun
- We'll to the Woods No More von Édouard Dujardin
- The Conquest of Bread von Pjotr Alexejewitsch Kropotkin
- Looking Backward von Edward Bellamy
- Alice in Wonderland von Lewis Carroll
- The Serpent in Paradise von Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- Artificial Paradises von Charles Baudelaire
- Dead Souls von Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol
- The House of the Dead (novel) von Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski
- The Wild Duck von Henrik Ibsen
- Inferno (Strindberg) von August Strindberg
- The Nether World von George Robert Gissing (bisher nicht auf deutsch)
- A Season in Hell von Arthur Rimbaud
- Moby Dick von Herman Melville
- The Picture of Dorian Gray von Oscar Wilde