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Fantastic! [Bonus Tracks] by Wham! (CD, 1983)

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4 Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?). 7 Club Tropicana 4:26. 3 Love Machine 3:23.

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Product Identifiers

Producer
George Michael; Steve Brown
Record Label
Epic
UPC
5099745009022
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12050189618

Product Key Features

Artist
Wham!
Format
CD
Release Year
1983
Release Title
Fantastic! [Bonus Tracks]
Run Time
52 Mins 39 Seconds
Genre
Rock

Additional Product Features

Distribution
Phantom Import Distributi
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Additional information
Fantastic is the misguided 1983 debut release from the U.K. duo Wham. With Fantastic, George Michael and partner Andrew Ridgeley introduced themselves as leather jacket-clad, street-smart "rebels." This approach proved wildly popular in the U.K., where Fantastic was a Top Ten hit, but the album went largely unnoticed in the States. While Fantastic showcases the ability of the young (20 at the time of the album's release) George Michael to craft engaging, hook-filled melodies, much of the material on Fantastic suffers from the duo's pretentious, tough-guy posturing. The empty funk of the U.K. hits "Bad Boys," "Young Guns (Go for It)," and the embarrassing "Wham Rap" barely registers, and Michael's smart-aleck, self-conscious lyrics are often unintentionally hilarious. Although Michael eventually became well-known as a reasonably successful emulator of R&B trends, neither these tunes nor Fantastic's stupefying remake of the Miracles' "Love Machine" give any indication of his abilities. At best, Fantastic can be viewed as a testament to George Michael's maturity. "Nothing Looks the Same in the Light" and "Club Tropicana," two of Fantastic's best tunes, lean toward the lush, adult pop of Michael's later solo work. Fortunately, Michael and Ridgeley would later ditch the superficial, leather-jacketed approach for the more sophisticated pop of later Wham releases like "Everything She Wants" and "Freedom" (both from 1984's Make It Big) and "The Edge of Heaven" (from 1986's Music From the Edge of Heaven), finding major U.S. success in the process. Fantastic isn't a good album, but it's oddly entertaining. It's certainly interesting hearing the difference between the frothy Fantastic and Michael's later, "serious" solo work like Listen Without Prejudice and Older. And Fantastic is also good for a few chuckles. Unfortunately, that probably wasn't George Michael's intention. But even he might get a good laugh out of it. ~ William Cooper
Engineer
Tony Taverner
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo

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item 1 Fantastic - CD NOVG The Cheap Fast Free Post
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item 2 Wham Fantastic CD #G2039804
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item 3 Wham! - Fantastic [CD]
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It's Wham!'s debut album, a great album from the biggest boyband of the 80s
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item 1 Fantastic - CD NOVG The Cheap Fast Free Post

item 2 Wham Fantastic CD #G2039804

item 3 Wham! - Fantastic [CD]

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