Results

Results is the 1989 Liza Minnelli album produced by Pet Shop Boys and Julian Mendelsohn. The album was a huge success in the UK, where it reached #6 on the UK Albums Chart (promoted by the lead single "Losing My Mind," which reached #6 on the UK Singles Chart^[1]). The album was less successful in the US, peaking only at #128 on the Billboard Top 200 albums. According to Minnelli, the album's title came to be when she was at a bar and she complimented a woman on her dress. The woman thanked Minnelli and explained that it was her "results" dress. "When I wear this dress, I get results."

Track listing

All songs written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant, except where noted.

1. I Want You Now – 4:41
2. Losing My Mind (Stephen Sondheim) – 4:11
3. If There Was Love – 6:47
4. So Sorry, I Said – 3:14
5. Don't Drop Bombs – 3:39
6. Twist in My Sobriety (Tanita Tikaram) – 4:51
7. Rent – 3:54
8. Love Pains (Steve Barri, Michael Price, Dan Walsh) – 4:10
9. Tonight Is Forever – 5:04
10. I Can't Say Goodnight – 4:52

Results/Visible Results (2005 Re-issue)

Additional tracks

11. Losing My Mind (Extended Remix) – 7:01
12. Don't Drop Bombs (Extended Remix) – 5:53
13. Love Pains (Steve Hurley's Remix) – 5:34

DVD

• Losing My Mind (Music video)
• Don't Drop Bombs (Music video)
• So Sorry, I Said (Music video)

Chart

Song information

'"Losing My Mind" is from the 1971 musical Follies. "Twist in My Sobriety" was originally recorded by Tanita Tikaram, from the 1988 album Ancient Heart. '"Love Pains" was originally recorded by Yvonne Elliman, from the 1979 album Yvonne. "Rent" and "Tonight Is Forever" were both originally recorded by Pet Shop Boys from, respectively, the albums Actually (1987) and Please (1986).

The Pet Shop Boys demo version of "Losing My Mind" (which had Neil Tennant singing the vocal) was later 'tidied up' and released as a B-side on the Pet Shop Boys single "Jealousy".

The outro to "If There Was Love" features Liza reciting Sonnet 94 by William Shakespeare: "They that have power to hurt"

Personnel

• Angelo Badalamenti – orchestra arrangement
• J.J. Belle – guitars
• Danny Cummings – percussion
• Anne Dudley – orchestra arrangement, orchestra conductor
• Donald Johnson – rap
• Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
• Katie Kisson – backing vocals
• Chris Lowe – keyboards, programming
• Gary Maughan – programming
• C.J. Macintosh – programming, scratching
• Julian Mendelsohn – keyboards, programming, backing vocals
• Tessa Niles – backing vocals
• Courtney Pine – saxophone
• Andy Richards – keyboards, programming
• Neil Tennant – keyboards, backing vocals, vocoder
• Peter-John Vettese – keyboards, piano

References