Thunder In My Heart/Easy To Love/Leave Well Enough Again/I Want You Back/Its Over/Fool For Your Love/ World Keeps On Turning/There Isn't Anything/Everything I've Got/We Can Start All Over Again
By the time of the release of Thunder In My Heart singer songwriter Leo Sayer had move away from the quirky compositions that had built his reputation. Here he embraces a mainstream pop disco sound which was perhaps not the best use of his talents. (US:37 UK:8)
“Thunder In My Heart features some big studio names of the day, and kick-starts with a devastatingly smashing disco hit – the title track. Not a bad setting to release a new album.”
“The music on the album is actually quite good, but excluding Sayer's sometimes amazingly high voice, there isn't much that separates this album from tens of similar mainstream attempts.”
“I bought this album on the strength of the absolutely thrilling single Thunder In My Heart which was brilliantly sung with enormous passion and should have been a much bigger hit. The rest of the album is just filler I’m afraid, really disappointingly mediocre material.” “Leo was experimenting during the 70s but unfortunately started resorted to mass appeal ballads. He has one of the UK's best pop voices. No one comes close in today’s music scene.”
“The second of three Richard Perry produced albums. On this one, Perry allows Leo to write more of the songs than previously, but somehow convinces him to dumb them down for general consumption. Leo Sayer is a great singer but this stuff is so ordinary. One more album together and Leo went back to his roots - a bit too late, I'm afraid.”
“Whilst the album is certainly of its time production wise, there is no doubting the passion and effort that went into making it. By now Leo had his eye on the US market, disco was in full swing, and beats and strings were the order of the day, which is what makes this record so great. The strings and tunes are just fantastic. Thunder In My Heart has a fab vocal, which he sings with gusto and real feeling. Buy this album if you are a fan of '70s disco, melodies and inspired soul music.”
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