Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth CD

 Wonderful
This is Debbie Gibson's best CD by far better than any other album she has recorded. IF you are looking for some very fun music this is it!!
Submitted by beckyruderboofer (summerville sc) 
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I ordered my CD and the S&H was cheap they had a deal going and i really liked that and my CD got here in a couple days and i didn't have to wait long i would order again Tina
Submitted by tlclaus (Columbia, SC, USA) 
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 Perfect Follow Up!!!!
Electric Youth was the album that followed up such a strong debut for Deborah ( then known as Debbie ) Gibson! The first track, Who Loves Ya Baby? is a great opening track for the album!!! Very upbeat and very much where Out Of The Blue had left off! Lost In Your Eyes, Gibson's biggest hit to date was very much in the same style as Carol King or Karen Carpenter, which made this song soar to #1!!!! Love In Disquise follows up Lost In Your Eyes...this song was very different from the club styled pop and splashy ballads Gibson was very well known for! Love In Disquise sounds like a title that comes from the hit making band of the 70's and 80's Chicago!! Very much in the same style Chicago would have taken on...very rockish for Gibson!!! Helplessly In Love is track #4 on this triple platinum album....Helplessly In Love came across very much in a style that Elton John would have taken on minus a piano!!!! A very mid-tempoed styled tune here!! Also it is something that even Wilson Phillips or Mariah would have sung a few years later!!! Deborah just soars on this song and I have always considered it to be an all time favorite of mine! Silence Speaks ( A Thousand Words ) is next...this is basically the sort of ballads Gibson was famous for! Too bad radio didn't get this song...not only was it written by Gibson, but like Lost In Your Eyes and Foolish Beat, Gibson produced this track as well! What makes this song so different from the two ballads that hit #1? This song did not have a piano, or a saxaphone in it, instead it has a beautiful haunting melody and a flute is being played through most of the song!!!! This I feel is one of Gibson's best of her early years!! I very much blame Atlantic Records for not pushing this out to radio!!! This could have been Gibson's third #1 hit! Should Have Been The One is next in line, and this was always a song Gibson did live!!! Very Elton John like musically! Deborah rocks her piano! This never got radio status, and I am glad it didn't..but it is a great up beat song and lots of fun and I really liked this song! The title track, Electric Youth comes in next and this song was WAY ahead of its time!!! Not only did this song have a valuable message behind it, but more on a musical note...Gibson was doing something nobody had done yet...bringing techno to the radio!!!! Even though Electric Youth had a guitar sound to it, the song itself had this hint of Techno to it too!!! That is why it was one of her best as far as dance and remixes go!!!! No More Rhyme was a single that should have gone on to at least a top 5 but stalled at #17...I to this very day do not understand that!!! The record company may be to blame here! It had a very nice video to it and the radio did play this one for a little while! This song does come in at the end of the disc as well, you get the acoustic mix to this one too....this also appeared on the We Could Be Together cd and cassette singles too....No More Rhyme really should have gone on further, one of Gibson's pretties ballads of all time! Next up is Over The Wall...this is probably the song that inspired her later album Anything Is Possible...a song about dreams and hope! This song was really different for Gibson too, musically that is! It has a sharp tint to it and I liked that coming from Gibson....Imagine a group like Wilson Phillips singing this one, the harmony would have rocked!!! Too bad radio did not get this song either!!! It may have been another #1 hit for Gibson! We Could Be Together is next and this one is different for Gibson too...it didn't quite go with anything she had done on Out Of The Blue, but it always remained a fan fave!! She did this one live and took it to town!!! This was usually her way of getting the audience involved!! She would often invite fans on stage with this cool song!!! Gibson again goes very Chicago like on this, using horns in the song! The song didn't chart very well and it is a major shame! Had Gibson been hot in the 70's, you better believe this would have been as popular as any Chicago song! Also at the end of Electric Youth, you get an acoustic mix of this one too...this also appeared on the Electric Youth single too! Shades Of The Past ends the album ( minus the bonus tracks )...very poetic and very beautiful musically! This is where Gibson leaves off and it is also where she picks up again on Anything Is Possible!!! This song was dark for Gibson, where as Foolish Beat and Lost In Your Eyes seem a little brighter in sound for a ballad.....Shades Of The Past differs from the two songs but however she Gibson still seemed to showcase her Carol King/Karen Carpenter side!!! Two Thumbs Up For Electric Youth!!!!!
Submitted by Eric (Anderson, IN, USA)
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 No Sophomore Slump Here!
Deborah Gibson's sophomore album continued to showcase her singing and song writing talents. The ballads Lost In Your Eyes, Silence Speaks, and No More Rhyme are incredible songs which Gibson delivers with her distinctive voice. The uptempo songs are every bit as good as the ones from her first album. It was obvious that with this album she had her sites on bigger things.
Submitted by James (Baytown, TX)
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 For die-hard fans only
Debbie Gibson's 1989 follow up to "Out of the Blue" (which was very good) is, in my opinion a very poor album. It sounds like a demo-tape. The only good tracks are "Lost In Your Eyes" and "Silence Speaks" (which are VERY good!). The up-tempo songs are just boring (though the title track is catchy at first, but you'll grow tired of it), and the whole album is just too much! Not recomended. Try to get the singles "Lost In Your Eyes"/"Silence Speaks" and "Electric Youth"/"We Could Be Together" instead
Submitted by Thérèse (Montréal)
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