30th Anniversary of "Results" album by Liza Minnelli, produced by Pet Shop Boys

What a great album. The reason why it worked so well is that somehow they managed to keep her histrionic tendencies in check, and make her realize that, sometimes, less is more, as they say.

I love Liza's version of Rent on that album.

My mum did not realise "Losing My Mind" was from Follies until the other day. She thought it was an original song of Liza's.

R3 I thought the same for a while lol. Liza really made it her own.

I really wish the album performed better in the U.S.

The remastered 2017-2018 PSB catalog is a revelation. I was just thinking the other day a remaster of Results would be worth it.

Every gay man I knew bought this album when it came out.

R6 Results was re-released in 2017... not sure if it was remastered though.

[quote] The remastered 2017-2018 PSB catalog is a revelation. I was just thinking the other day a remaster of Results would be worth it.

There was one, a 4CD set a couple of years ago.

RuPaul says this is one of his favorite albums and he still listens to it frequently. I don't think it's about his loving Liza so much as his loving Liza and The Pet Shop Boys and thinking they made a perfect album together. I remember thinking I'd loving it but not being able to get into it. Maybe I'd feel differently about it today. I wish PSB had been able to make their collaborative album with Donna Summer they wanted to. Unfortunately her people turned them down.

Thanks for that! Liza would have killed "I Want a Dog". Does she do it?

We just never really 'got' Liza.

Our mother once said that if Liza hadn't been Judy Garland's daughter she would be singing in cocktail lounges.......

They did a part of Dusty Springfield's "Reputation" album shortly after this one, in 1990. And, then, they gave us this brilliant moment with Boy George.

The Crying Game proved all Boy had to do was to record good music that sounded like Culture Club, and there was still a place for him on the charts. It's the only time he'd recorded a good song produced to sound like Culture Club he'd recorded in years. But his solo career ultimately fizzled, despite recording some strikingly good albums in his late career. I miss him, he belongs on tv somewhere, such an interesting personality.

A real musician

Fuck off, R15.

It's the only thing she's ever done that I love.

I love it. This video is something... else.

I had this album on cassette. Played it in my red Ford Escort on my way home from the gym. Love.

I still listen to the cd at least once a month. It really is a perfect album.

Her VEVO uploaded the video from "Results" in March 2019

One of the most underrated albums of all time! With "Losing My Mind" they had turned Sondheim music into something not only listenable but enjoyable as well.

Bitch stole my sound!

Boy George sounded great on The Crying Game.

R14 He is on TV in Australia, one of the judges for their version of The Voice.

Great album!

I don't know if its true, but I always feel the PSB worked efficiently. I am impressed with how much they produced with all the music cuts that finally turn up from so many things that were never on albums. And one album after another for a good long time there. Their music seems to have the exactly correct level of production, neither over or under-produced. Melodies are good, there's humor, they tried out many different styles but with a fil conducteur, it all dates pretty well.

It wash from the period when I trashformed myshelf into a shuper hep rock shtar!

"The shun comesh up... I shink about you..."

All the young people of the time jusht loved me, and thought I wash absholutely shenshational!

Oddly, I never bought it. I'll check it out. I must say I couldn't stand the asymmetrical haircut.

MY GOD--I can't believe it's been 30 years! I was in college when this came out and it was a time when a few people were doing pop variations on Sondheim songs.

Actually, I may even prefer the album cuts to the singles. That's how strong the album is - no filler.

don't drop bombs doesn't get to the hook fast enough - but overall this album sucks - there's a reason that during her long career she's never had anything resembling a hit song and it's because she sings just like her mother and never developed her own schtick. One would think after watching her mother destroy herself with addiction she would have avoided it herself.

Be Besht!

Love this album. "Tonight is Forever" is a high point.

"If There Was Love" is one of my favorites. The spoken part bridge is her reciting Sonnet 94 by William Shakespeare:

The Album only peaked at #128 on the Billboard charts?

Only #128???

In 1989, Madonna with Like a Prayer and Paula Abdul with Forever Your Girl dominated the pop world, I'm not saying Liza should have sold anywhere near those two albums but

128???

True r35 but Results really has stood the test of time. It was never a blockbuster, but for many gay men in 1989, it was just as present in our Sony Walkman as Like a Prayer or Forever Your Girl or Rhythm Nation 1814.

In many ways, for me, Results was my coming out album. I knew other boys in my class would never listen to this, so it became a special album for me. When it came out, I knew I had to have it.

The PSB production is outstanding. There are the expected moments of camp but overall, Results is quite a sophisticated, elegant pop album. "Rent" and "Tonight is Forever" are truly outstanding, showing Liza at her best.

Results has been reissued twice. Once in the mid-'00s in a DVD/CD casebook. And then as previously stated, by Cherry Pop a few years ago.

Weird to think that Gene Simmons was Liza's manager at the time!

Judy Garland did not have many hit album until "Judy at Carnegie Hall." That live album was a hit before it was released because disk jockeys were given advance notice in the Summer of 1961. Once they started to play songs from that album, the record company released the 2-lps in a plain black box. It was the best selling album in the United States for the next six months.

1989-1991 was one of my favorite periods when it comes to pop music. So many iconic pop albums released during that time, this being one of them and I'm not even a particular Liza fan nor do I own any physical copies of her other recordings.

PSB and Bronski Beat were the tops

It's too bad Madonna and PSB never worked together.

They did!

Madonna is reportedly a fan.

Contrary to what was said above, Liza never sang like her mother. She attempts to sing like her mother and that is the problem. Nobody has ever equalled Judy Garland.

Ooh, I love that album. Especially the shingles.

I couldn't get into it at all. I think of Liza as a character.

I still love that album too.

I saw the PSB in concert a year or so ago and I was surprised by just how amazing a show they do. Great sound.

[quote]I wish PSB had been able to make their collaborative album with Donna Summer they wanted to. Unfortunately her people turned them down.

Donna's people should've been fired for that! WTF were they thinking? Imagine what a Donna/PSB album could've been.

Who is the hot guy in the LMM video?

Eldergays would hate this

why?

R50 She was trying hard to keep up with the trend then

[quote]I saw the PSB in concert a year or so ago and I was surprised by just how amazing a show they do. Great sound.

True, but unfortunately the live album that just came out does not capture any of that - the sound is flat and there's no energy at all.

Count me as a Results lover.

The "Love Pains" chorus is kinda odd though. You can barely hear Liza over the backup singers.

I Was Molested (Pet Shop Boys Remix)

I remember being shocked when I heard it didn't sell well. Everyone I knew owned it.

[quote]Everyone I knew owned it.

Small social circle?

Only gays bought it

The best song and remix off this album.

Original and best

my bf tried to get me into this shitty album back in '89. I was 17 years old and did NOT want anything to do with a fucking "Liza" album. I listened to a couple of tracks and remember saying "WTF is this shit"? He was all over it. I was more into Madonna and Sheena Easton and couldn't give a fuck about a lousy album by some old druggy bitch.

I tried to get my bf into this brilliant album back in '89. He was 17 years old and did NOT want anything to do with what he called "a fucking 'Liza' album". He listened to a couple of tracks and I remember him saying "WTF is this shit"? He was not at all into it. He was more into that hag Madonna and shrill Sheena Easton and couldn't give a fuck about a well composed album by some old showgirl. I dumped his ass.

>>"Results" is the ninth studio album by Liza Minnelli released on September 12, 1989...

That must have been a very busy day for her.

Results - lmao! More like "Comatose".

To the TWAT who keeps making fun of Liza's speech problems: Knock It Off. She's gotten past her physical speech problem and "making fun" of it is soooo old. Grow the fuck up and stop being the ASSHOLE that you are.

Good for you R61 ... I would have done the same ... just can't stand men with no taste!

R12 : Are you senile Mrs Patrick Campbell? Can't think of another reason ...

Liza is like a parody of herself. Not something to listen to.

yeah my bf liked it. that says it all... that asshole had ZERO taste. he used to like some country bitch called lorrie morgan too. he tried to force her shit on me too. thank god for artists like madonna and sheena easton.

[quote]I wish PSB had been able to make their collaborative album with Donna Summer they wanted to. Unfortunately her people turned them down.

Why?!? She (or “her people”) couldn’t pick material to save her life.

i guess that's why Donna Summer's 1989 album was a hit seller and Liza's was not?

Donna's 1989 album was ok, but she was a fool to turn down the PSB. They were red-hot at the time and had just had a huge international hit with "What Have I Done To Deserve This" with the fabulous Dusty Springfield (RIP).

Donna went with the hitmaking SAW instead

r64 when did Liza's speech problem develop?

r73 at birth.

The second time Judy dropped her.

[quote]Donna went with the hitmaking SAW instead

Why couldn’t she have done both?

because she didn't want to work with the goddamned pet shop boys. goddamn are you that fucking limited?!!!!

Step away from the meth, R77. Christ.

i'm not on meth i was adding a comment to the asinine comment posted by the idiot at r76.

Cocaine?

"Results" is the ninth studio album by Liza Minnelli released on September 12, 1989...

The sky was so blue that day.

There is only room for one dance diva in the family

Donna Summer probably didn’t want to work with homosexuals

Donna Summer probably didn't want to work with Pet Shop Shit.

R70 she had her final tip 10 hit but the album itself peaked at #53 on the Billboard charts and sold a measly 255,000 copies in the US , over 500,000 worldwide in the last 30 years

Compare that to the 15 million Worldwide Madonna sold with her 1989 album Like a Prayer or the 12-13 million worldwide sales for Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl or Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation of that period

R85 compare that with Liza Minnelli Results! LMAO!

Liza looked damn good for 43. I don't blame her. She probably was scared to death at that point of being shuttled into the Frank Sinatra-type demographic after being dragged along with two septuagenarians on the Ultimate Event Tour.

This album from Liza of all people, who had NEVER made good pop music, came from out of the blue, and it is perfectly put together for her, for PSB, and for the moment. Who cares that it wasn't a hit (other than Liza). It's a very fine production, and I'm sure Liza is happy to have it in her discography.

what do Donna Summer and Liza Minnelli have to do with one another?

R89, not a damned thing!

To be fair, Donna's record label initially wasn't even going to release the album in the states. Radio stations got their hands on TTIKIFR as an import and started playing it, where it generated huge buzz. The imported single started selling like hot cakes when her label decided to release it and the album. The follow up single really got no promotion, and I don't think Summer even filmed a video for it.

Had the label done a traditional release, the album could have sold better, and This Time I know it's for real might have been another number one for her. Definitely would have gone top 5.

Loves about to change had a video

R91 is a perfect example of people in the Trump era: Don't know something? Just keep talking as if you do.

Yes, Summer filmed a video for the next single. And US stations did not start playing the import, forcing the label to release it. Summer was ending her Geffen contract, Geffen didn't want the new album, so Atlantic Records came to the rescue, feeling they could have a hit with it stateside. And so several months after it's UK release, it then was released in the states via Atlantic Records.

Donna's last studio album, "Crayons" in 2008 was very good.

^it was not

Yes it was.

^it flopped badly

It was still a good album.

^but no one here could name a song

I loved “Stamp Your Feet” from Crayons. She had a Billboard Dance hit with it.

I'm a Fire.

I wonder what Judy would have thought of "Results"?

Losing My Mind live on The Arsenio Hall Show.

😆 lmao

Don't drop bombsh, bay-bee. Don't. Drop. Bombsh.

Loved it. Remember seeing her on Arsenio with a group of friends. All flabbergasted. Sondheim never sounded so accessible before. She was so hot! So beautiful. So young looking. So sober looking. She was actually cool. She was Liza by way of PSB. For once she wasn't *L I Z A * Sad it didnt last long. She started using again. Got weird again. Went back to the tried/true shtick again. The rest is tragedy/history.

Officially been 30 yearsh. Letsh Schelebrate!!

R103 - great makeup, great hair, amusing moves. Perfect!