Favorite Cher album?

[IceColdLover]

Mine is her self-titled 1987 album, "Cher". It was her comeback album following years of failed success with previous albums and taking time off to pursue an acting career. She signed with Geffen Records at this time. The album produced 5 singles ("I Found Someone", "We All Sleep Alone", "Skin Deep", "Bang Bang" and "Main Man"), the latter two being promo-only in North America. Singers Michael Bolton and Jon Bon Jovi helped produce the album. Richie Sambora and Desmond Child were also producers.

The album was promoted on Saturday Night Live, where she performed "I Found Someone" and "We All Sleep Alone", and on the Late Show with David Letterman, where she performed "I Found Someone" and "I Got You Babe". Later released on VHS, the Letterman performance would be her last with ex-husband Sonny Bono before his death. The album was also promoted on UK television.

The album reached #26 in the UK, and peaked at #32 on the US Billboard album charts. The first single released from the album and its only UK top 10 hit was "I Found Someone", which reached #5 in the UK and #10 in the US. The second single, "We All Sleep Alone", peaked at #14 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and just missed breaking the Adult Contemporary top 10 in the US, stalling at #11. It was less successful in the UK, however, peaking at #47.

 

[ShyTwink]

Not.com.mercial

The majority of not.com.mercial was written by Cher in 1994 when she retreated to France. The song "Born With the Hunger" was written by Eikhardt, and "Classified 1A" is a newly remixed version of her 1970 Sonny Bono-penned song. The folk/rock-themed album with some slow ballads was proposed to Warner UK when Cher signed with the company in early 1995. Rob Dickins, head of Warner, reportedly turned down the project as being "not commercial".

In 1999, Cher decided it was time to release the record as an exclusive for fans through her website and Artist Direct. Though no singles were released, the song "Born With the Hunger" has been featured on the international version of her 2003 compilation album The Very Best of Cher.

None of the songs have ever been sung live and little information is known about the album itself, although Cher's liner notes give a brief description of who/what inspired each song. Two songs were inspired by a married man she loved, one by her daughter's girlfriend, and another by soldiers and army men treated poorly. The song "(The Fall) Kurt's Blues", co-written with Pat MacDonald of Timbuk3 and Bruce Roberts, is her tribute to rock singer Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994.

 

[IowaGuy]

Love all her albums.

 

[Cormac135]

Cher.

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[aaggii]

Believe.

When it came out, I was 8 or 9 years old and like usual, my parents would give me money for sweets and I would go and buy music instead. I remember seeing the video for Believe and I like it a lot, so I go buy it, the cover is a very photoshopped version of Cher, I listen to the album 100 times, tell all my friends about the ¨new chick with a long funny face but cool voice¨ thinking she must be 18 or so. I later find out in a music magazine that she was around 50 back then. Shock, old people make music too. Remember, I was a kid and all I had at hand was MTV and my parents´ disco vinyls that I hated so so much. No idea who Cher was. Years later I found some of her first tapes from the 60s with Sonny and I still have them back at my mom and dads´ house. But I stick with Believe cause it was when I started paying attention to music, stopped listening to whatever they sold you and started searching stuff on my own (even if in the end I figured what I like most is jazz and 60s soul). Plus, brings back childhood memories.

 

[vacancy3]

Love all her albums.

Right....but cmon.....believe is epic

 

[Mellored]

Stars, or the original UK mix of her album It's a Mans World

 

[Matt89]

Believe for sure. I still listen to it.

 

[LoveMoves]

Heart of Stone - my first Cher album remains my fav Cher album.