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“Welcome To The Pleasuredome” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
From the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984)
“Welcome To The Pleasuredome” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood appears on 9 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2005. It was first released in 1984 on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome. Its best result is #1014 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,620 alternative song of all time.
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The title track of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 1984 debut album Welcome to the Pleasuredome is the band at its most grandiose, a sprawling Trevor Horn production that takes its cue from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan". Holly Johnson, Peter Gill, Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash share the writing credit, and Horn builds it into a vast, glittering palace of sound.
Plenty of listeners took it as a hymn to excess, and next to "Relax" it only pushed the band's notoriety higher. Like Coleridge, though, the song is really warning about what mindless indulgence costs you. In March 1985 a trimmed, remixed version became the group's fourth UK single; Billboard reckoned it had less hook than "Relax" but more drama.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1386 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1386 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1387 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1386 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2002 | 1391 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1372 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2003 | 1014 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2004 | 1372 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1371 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
Also listed as: Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
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