Alf

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Brankin, Una (28 May 2013). "A confident Alison Moyet is beating her demons". Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 4 November 2018.

A critical and commercial smash, the broadsheets labelled this her best album in decades while the record-buying public rewarded the LP with a UK Top 5 placing, her best since Raindancing. With some of Moyet’s typical arch wit, in a press release for the record, she described The Minutes as “Born of reconstructed improvisation. I like to think of it as prog-pop. But I also like to think of big dogs as small horses, so don’t hang on to that thought long.” It all happened very fast and because we hadn't been in a band for years, playing in clubs, it was very much just a working relationship—we never had the chance to bond. We never really knew each other. Not really... The fact that we never talked, never socialised together, meant that when problems came up we didn't know how to communicate and sort things out." Alf Deluxe". AlisonMoyet.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2017 . Retrieved 17 March 2017.

A single, " Nobody's Diary", was released in May 1983 ahead of the album and reached number three in the UK chart, [10] but within days of the single's release, Yazoo announced that they were splitting up. [29] The album, ironically titled You and Me Both, was released in the UK in July 1983 and topped the UK album charts, [10] a feat it would also achieve in New Zealand. However, with no further singles or live appearances to promote it, it did not sell as well as Upstairs at Eric's, although it still achieved gold status in the UK for sales of 100,000 copies. [25] In the US, You and Me Both peaked at number 69 on the Billboard 200. [26] Arguably Moyet’s finest solo album to date, if there was any sense whatsoever that her hook-up with Guy Sigsworth for The Minuteswas a flash in the pan, then this put that to the sword in spectacular style. Despite containing a clutch of hits that would become signature songs for her, Moyet’s 1984 debut LP Alf wasn’t without the odd record company-related hitch. Meeting With My) Main Man (Live At The Town & Country Club, London, 17th July, 1991) Previously unreleased. Moyet had another big UK hit the following year with " Is This Love?" (co-written by Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, under the pseudonym Jean Guiot), [8] followed in 1987 by her second LP, Raindancing. Raindancing spawned further hit singles, including a cover of Floy Joy's " Weak in the Presence of Beauty" and " Ordinary Girl". In 1987, she scored another cover hit with " Love Letters", which peaked at UK No.4. The video for the song featured comedy duo French & Saunders.

On 27 September 2016, it was announced that Moyet's first four studio albums Alf, Raindancing, Hoodooo and Essex would be reissued as Deluxe editions after having been remastered by BMG on 25 November 2016. Each double-disc set comes in a casebound book with the original album remastered from the original tapes along with 12-inch remixes, b-sides and previously unreleased songs. [26] Creative, Sugar Rush (6 October 2017). "MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice (2017)". a-ha . Retrieved 8 August 2023.Elsewhere, though, twitching electro meets chopping guitars on the superlative Changeling, a real banger that’s become a live favourite and the equally dancefloor-centric Right As Rain, where Moyet once again sounds absolutely at home in this context. Album review | Alison Moyet: 'Alf', 'Raindancing', 'Hoodoo' & 'Essex' Deluxe Editions". Attitude. 25 November 2016 . Retrieved 1 April 2017. RPM's Top 100 Albums of 1985". RPM. Vol.43, no.16. 25 December 1985. p.14. ISSN 0033-7064– via Library and Archives Canada.