1) Everybody Have Fun Tonight- A pop masterpiece. Goes down well as a retro favourite at parties. listen and try hard not to have fun.

2) Hypnotise Me- Not bad. A well constructed, pounding synth 80's pop tune.

3) The flat horizon- One of the highlights of the album. Good instrumentation. Great tune.

4) Betrayal- WC moving into ballad territory but it actually works! The lyrics (often a shortcoming of 80's pop) are intriguing.

5) Let's Go- A good choice for single #2. Let's go baby, let's go baby come on! Leave the worries of life behind you and dance to this pop-rock gem! Retro gold!

6) Eyes of the girl- Ho-hum filler

7) A fool and his money- Ok but nothing special

8) The world in which we live- A social commentary! Yes from Wang Chung. Makes a profound statement about the immorality of man and how individuals can make a difference. I didn't count on WC dropping the f-word and s-word together!! "the world in which we live is run by people who ... everybody". An unpleasant surprise coming from the seemingly inncuous WC! But still a highlight of the album. Song comes off inventive and 3 dimensional.

Everybody have fun tonight...
It's more than likely that the single Everybody have fun tonight..." is the one most people will be familiar with but this album was one of the classic 80's albums (and there were such a lot...).

I managed to get this on CD last year after having it on vinyl for ages and then losing it. Wang Chung never got the recognition in the UK that they had in the US, I remember a reviewer of "Points On The Curve" writing them off as too American, and that was with the class "Dance Hall Days" on there as well.

The uptempo songs such as "Everybody...", "Hypnotise Me" (English spelling) and "Let's Go" are all worth the money, but my favourite song on here is "Betrayal". This ballad is a moving song about a guy who married his child-hood sweet-heart and has realised that she's betrayed him with someone-else while he's been out working all hours trying to get enough money to live. A familiar story to many people I think...

Wang Chung always sounded to me like they were having a good time and just wanted others to share in their fun. Go on, you know you want to...

The bland and the blander
I'm afraid to say this is an uninspiring album. The single most glaring deficiency which it exhibits is the songwriters' respective inabilities to develop a tune. As a result, it is very, very boring. The ballads sometimes have interesting lyrics, but they are all delivered in a flat monotone with very little variation in the music either.

"Let's Go" is easily the best song on the album, with a good start and a driving progression, but even this runs out of steam/ideas towards the end of the chorus; as a result they have to tunelessly shout the title and some other words just so they can move on to the next verse. "Everybody have Fun Tonight" is not quite as good, but at least is much better than passable and its ending is a strong as its start. Other than "Hypnotise Me", which is mildly clever, the rest are very, very weak.

Oh, and "The World in which we Live" ends this mind-numbing collection. Seven long minutes where the song goes nowhere and they just have to chant the title as a 'climax'. Oh dear. The most memorable thing about the song is the obscenities at the start of it, which are totally gratuitous, unnecessary and are just another example of the bells and whistles this band will pull out to try to revive the album despite their weak songwriting.

One star is probably harsh (I thought hard about this), but it is nonetheless difficult to give it two stars on the basis of two good songs out of eight. Very, very disappointing.

Lucky to Find This One Album!
I was at Michigan State when I picked up this album in the discount bin (don't ask) across the street at the local [store]. I bought it for [$] and I was blown away, I mean I was expecting a somewhat cheesy album to buy just for camp value but I was pleasantly surprised. The tracks especially "Hypnotize" were pretty good. I understand it's pretty hard to find this album now. I just checked out the discount bin, imagine that.

Wang Chung's Very Best
If your to buy one Wang Chung album make this your choice. Every song on this album are great to listen to from begining to end. This album contains alot of great instrumentation, and it's especially shown on the song "The Flat Horizon" which in my opinion is the greatest song off the cd. But all in all every song is great to listen to.