Weak in the Presence of Beauty (album)

Weak in the Presence of Beauty
Studio album by Floy Joy
Released 1986
Length 37:38
Label Virgin
Producer Don Was
Floy Joy chronology
Into the Hot
(1984)Into the Hot1984		 Weak in the Presence of Beauty'
(1986)

Weak in the Presence of Beauty is the second and last album by English band Floy Joy. It was released in 1986, and featured the minor hit, "Weak in the Presence of Beauty".[1]

Unlike the previous album which featured Carroll Thompson on vocals, this album instead featured vocals from Desi Campbell, whilst both original member Michael Ward and new member Robert E. Clarke performed and wrote the music.

"Friday Night" was also released as a single but was a commercial failure.[2] The band split shortly after the album although in 1990, both Campbell and Shaun Ward would form the band Everyday People.

Shaun Ward spoke of the album in 1990, during an interview with his band Everyday People. He stated "The first Floy Joy album was an anthology of R&B, jazz... all the things we’d grown up listening to and absorbed. Though we liked it, we came to realize that maybe it was a bit too personal. So that’s why the second album is more direct and commercial. Unfortunately when we did that no one wanted to know."[3]

Track listing

All tracks written by Michael Ward and Robert E. Clarke except where noted.

  1. "Weak in the Presence of Beauty" (3:28)
  2. "Friday Night" (6:36)
  3. "Penny in My Pocket" (4:22)
  4. "Too Drunk to Funk" (3:49)
  5. "Ask The Lonely" (W. Stevenson; I. Hunter) (3:43)
  6. "Chinese A-Go Go" (4:01)
  7. "Crackdown" (2:49)
  8. "Walking in The Night" (3:26)
  9. "This is My Time" (Desy Campbell) (1:59)
  10. "It Makes No Difference to Me" (3:26)

Singles

Charts

Chart (1986) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 100

References

  1. 1 2 "Official Charts > Floy Joy". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 2017-05-16.
  2. ↑ "Floy Joy - Friday Night In This Cold City (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  3. ↑ http://desicampbell.com/everyday-people/
  4. 1 2 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 114. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. the Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988.
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