Excellent album to follow Love Zone!

This Billy Ocean album is still one of my favorites! For him to follow the very successful Love Zone album with this platinum album is an understatement. The big hits were Get Out of My Dreams, The Colour of Love, and Tear Down These Walls, but they're no contest to my favorites here. They are the grooving Gun For Hire and the rumbling Pleasure. Some other songs I like are Soon as You're Ready, Calypso Girl, and Because of You. But Gun is still strong today with that superb horn section, the danceable rhythms and other aspects. I played that song over and over on the tape in 1988! One of 1988's best albums to be released in at a time when 1987 songs and albums were number one hits in May, June and the summer of '88.

Fun 80s album!

One of Billy Ocean's best releases, this album features a nice mix of funky upbeat cuts ("Stand And Deliver", "Gun For Hire") and romantic "Quiet Storm" ballads ("The Colour Of Love", "Here's To You"). The highlight of the album is the FULL-LENGTH version of the huge hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" (the version on his Greatest Hits CD was a shorter radio edit). This album is filled with fun pop music, but there are enough sophisticated touches to keep it interesting (such as a trumpet solo on the uptempo song "Pleasure"). For fans of elegant 80s music, this will be a nice addition to your collection.

Great R&B!

Like 1984's SUDDENLY and 1986's LOVE ZONE,this album,released in February 1988,spawned four hits. They are the title track,the love ballads THE COLOR OF LOVE and HERE'S TO YOU,and the powerful-sounding GET OUTTA MY DREAMS GET INTO MY CAR. The other songs are good. I like STAND AND DELIVER also. I never saw the 1988 film starring Lou Diamond Phillips so I don't know if that song appeared in the film. The other songs are great. Billy Ocean put out a dozen hits in the five-year period in which this album and the two predecessors were released. After this album,Ocean would start slowing down recording. Two more hits followed this album,LICENSE TO CHILL and I SLEEP BETTER(IN SOMEONE ELSE'S BED) which appeared new on the GREATEST HITS album,released in 1989.