The Twelve Commandments of Dance | ||||
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Released | 17 July 1989[1] | |||
Genre | Dance | |||
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Producer | Ralf René Maué | |||
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Singles from The Twelve Commandments of Dance | ||||
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The Twelve Commandments of Dance is the debut album by German-based English dance-pop duo London Boys, released in 1989. It reached number 2 in the UK Albums Chart and stayed on the chart for 29 weeks.[2]
Other than the charting singles stated in the track listing, two other singles were released: "I'm Gonna Give My Heart" and "Dance Dance Dance".[3]
A review published in Music Week presented the album as a "perfect, pimple-free, faceless pop music that attempts to be soulful but lacks any kind of charisma", reproached the fact that all the tracks "repeat the [same] formula ad nauseum", and concluded that "the album is a danger to youngsters everywhere".[4] Johnny Dee of Record Mirror stated that lyrically, the album is "all utter cack", but considered that the more important thing lies in the fact that every track "has a 132 bpm sequencer chugging away" and "a chorus so catchy" that listerners could not forget it and could perform "stupid dances" on it.[5]
Retrospectively, in a 2015 review, the Pop Rescue website gave the album four stars out of five, presented it as containing "wonderful early commercial dance/europop and light tracks" with elements from both disco and dance music and features recalling Pet Shop Boys, added "it is up-beat throughout and mostly up-lifting and cheerful", but considered "Wichitah Woman" and "El Matinero" as the weakest tracks.[6]
All tracks written by Ralf René Maué.
Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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Europe (European Top 100 Albums)[7] | 15 |
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[8] | 4 |
UK Albums Chart[2] | 2 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[9] | Gold | |
United Kingdom (BPI)[10] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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