She gave voice to a far more assertive persona on the sleek and steely floor-filler "Don't Drop Bombs," supported by Tennant and Tessa Niles on vocals.įilm score composer Angelo Badalamenti wrote the atmospheric orchestration for "Rent." The 1987 PSB ballad of a kept woman, considering her position from all angles, first brought the duo to Minnelli's attention she imbued it with a chilling honesty. The mood is mellower on the reflective "So Sorry I Said," with the singer stepping into the role of a woman trapped in a hopeless relationship but unable or unwilling to leave it once again, Minnelli's gifts as an actress subtly add dimension to the evocative lyrics. The Pet Shop Boys opened up their worldview from the personal to the political on the bleak "If There Was Love," in which a breathy, ethereal Minnelli asks, "If there was love/Would that be enough" in a world of "individual freedom, intrinsically curbed/Inspiration: nil, slavery: ten?" (As if to emphasize the fact that the more things change., the track ends with Liza's reading of a Shakespeare sonnet.) Minnelli's voice was out front - impossibly urgent, dramatic, intense in its yearning for a lost lover - over a background of Fairlight synths, keyboards, and percussion and topped off with Anne Dudley's darkly rich, John Barry-esque orchestration. The new, opening song, "I Want You Now," quickly established how felicitous the teaming was. Five of their songs were originals, and two were reworkings of previously released tracks, while the remaining three songs were well-chosen covers. Tennant and Lowe (who had previously worked with a very different but equally legendary diva, Dusty Springfield) wrote seven songs on the album, and co-produced it with Julian Mendelsohn. This set follows the imprint's recent, expanded reissues of Minnelli's The Singer and Tropical Nights. label Strike Force Entertainment, part of the Cherry Red Group, has revisited this seminal LP in a new 3-CD/1-DVD compact box set that aims to be a completist's dream. Though Results remained under the radar in the United States, it became a top ten album and yielded a top ten single in the United Kingdom. Marrying her powerful theatrical style with throbbing dance beats and layers of synthesized sounds, Results was - and is - unlike anything else in her six-decade catalogue. Yet one of Minnelli's most cherished collaborations was also one of her most unexpected.ġ989's Results was the superstar's first studio album in over a decade, and teamed her with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, a.k.a. The list of Liza Minnelli's musical partners reads like a "Who's Who" of popular culture: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charles Aznavour, Donna Summer, Joel Grey, Chita Rivera, and of course, her mother Judy Garland, to name a few.
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