Product Description

'Make It Good' is the follow up to A1's multi-platinum selling album 'The A List', which was released in 2000. Having established themselves as a boy band with their last two albums, A1 have opted for a more mature approach on their third record. Includes 'Caught In The Middle', and 'Make It Good'.

Track Listing

1. Caught In The Middle
2. Make It Good (Radio Edit)
3. Here Comes The Rain
4. When I'm Missing You
5. This Aint What Love Is About
6. Crazy For Leaving You
7. Learn To Fly
8. Isn't It Cheap
9. If I Can't Have You
10. Make It Through The Night
11. Cherish This Love
12. Do You Remember
13. One Last Song
14. Let It Out

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25348 in Music
• Released on: 2002-05-27
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
As their audience matures, A1's third album Make It Good sees the band adopt a more grown-up musical style and image. The teen tunes of old have been replaced by 14 Ronan Keating-style adult-orientated pop compositions. Like the standard Ronan long-player there's an equal mix of slow slushy numbers and lively rock/pop tunes. "Here Comes the Rain" and "One Last Song" are both melodramatic ballads that securely fall into the first of these two styles. With falsetto vocals similar to Darren Hayes's, and first-rate catchy choruses, two tracks "Cherish" and "Do You Remember" pay homage to Savage Garden (a good business move if you're trying to break into non-European territories). The "Suicide Blonde" sound-a-like track "Isn't It Cheap" quotes other Aussie rockers INXS. Co-written by Christian, Paul, Mark and Ben, the four guys who make up A1, the album is unfortunately tarnished by excessive production. Despite being their best album to date, their apparent quest for audio perfection has resulted in an, at times, sterile sounding release. --John Galilee

Customer Reviews

A1 Make It Good
A1 are probably one of the few boybands i've really liked, Their early music was catchy and up-beat with choruses that once in your head lodged themselves there for what seemed like an eternity. Unlike most boybands however A1 do play their own instuments and write or co-write the majority of their own songs and in a country where manufactured pop seems to be the only way to guarantee a big hit, that's quite an achievement.
This 3rd album sees them going for more of an adult orientated sound, perhaps because they've realised that their audience is growing up or perhaps because this is the type of music they always wanted to do, whatever the reason it works. Like any good pop album there's a good mixture to the style of the tracks, with up-tempo rockers like 'Isn't It Cheap' and 'This Ain't What Love Is About', middle of the road pop songs 'Caught In The Middle' and the title track 'Make It Good' and ballads 'When I'm Missing You', 'Crazy For Leaving You' and 'Cherish This Love' A1 have produced an album which plays at a consistantly high level and gels together much better than their previous albums. The songs are well written and catchy and show that boybands can actually grow up. A very good album.

Definitely their best album so far
The lads decided to explore new music territory with this album and I definitely think they've done it well. The music is more up-tempo, but they haven't forgotten their roots. The album have some very nice ballads, the best, in my opinion being "If I Can't Have You." That song shows off Mark Read's vocal and songwriting talents.

"Caught in the Middle", the first track has definitely made fans Stateside when they premiered it there.

I agree with other reviewers when they said that the lads have definitely shown they've grown up and that they're a band that should be taken seriously.

This one is definitely a keeper.

proving their talent
This album is one you should get as it proves these guys are more talented than you think. Their best track is the secret track at the end, which has the lycics "you took me up, I shook you down, boybands are dying and we aren't hanging around" this is sort of signalling that A1 now sucussful can move away from the dying and bland boyband era which they are in.As for the album it is a step way from pop and is semi-rock.