Poolside (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Poolside
Type = studio album
Artist = Nu Shooz


Released = 1986
Recorded =
Genre = synthpop
Length = 37:16
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = John Smith, Rick Waritz
Reviews =
Last album = "Can't Turn It Off"
This album = "Poolside"
Next album = "Told U So"

"Poolside" is the title of a 1986 album by the American pop/freestyle/electronic dance music group Nu Shooz. It was released on Atlantic Records in the US in the spring of 1986. At the time, the band was creating music with in both the synthpop and freestyle genres. It was the band's first major-label release (an earlier album, "Can't Turn It Off", was released by the Nebula Circle label in 1982), and it was responsible for their breakthrough onto the pop and dance charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA later in the year for sales of over 500,000 units. It peaked on the American album chart at #27 [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=305&cfgn=Albums&cfn=The+Billboard+200&ci=3005166&cdi=6241434&cid=07%2F12%2F1986 Billboard 200 chart info at billboard.com] ] and spawned three singles which charted in the U.S.: "I Can't Wait", "Point of No Return", and "Don't Let Me be the One". In the UK, the album reached #32 on the UK Albums Chart. [http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=4595 Nu Shooz UK chart info at chartstats.com] ]

Track listing

# "Lost Your Number" (5:43)
# "I Can't Wait" (5:25)
# "Don't Let Me Be the One" (4:23)
# "Goin' Thru the Motions" (4:01)
# "You Put Me in a Trance" (4:20)
# "Point of No Return" (4:23)
# "Secret Message" (3:30)
# "Don't You Be Afraid" (5:14)

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