At the end of the day however this album does feature some beauties; all of the previously mentioned tunes plus UK #1s 'Sure', 'Never Forget', the teary 'The Day After Tommorrow' and the brilliant 'Holding Back The Tears'.

Never mind, if you can't find the original version of 'Nobody Else' on import, then you could do much worse than this one. But do try, it'll be well worth it - trust me!

Scott Keenan

Good - But The UK Version Is Better
The US Version of 'Nobody Else' disappoints mainly because it feels so tacked-together. Or maybe it's just because I know what it's missing. 'Pray', 'Babe', and 'Love Ain't Here Anymore' have been chucked in from the previous album 'Everything Changes' and brilliant tracks like 'Lady Tonight' and 'Hate it' have been scrapped! It doesn't have the same flow as the original, nor does it feel like the same body of work and it also suffers because it only features ten tracks. I think the US record company thought they'd do the same as Capitol did with The Beatles albums - slice and dice them so that they could make as many albums (and money!) as the could. This probably would have worked too, if they hadn't broken up as soon as 'Back For Good' had become a US Top Ten hit!

At the end of the day however this album does feature some beauties; all of the previously mentioned tunes plus UK #1s 'Sure', 'Never Forget', the teary 'The Day After Tommorrow' and the brilliant 'Holding Back The Tears'.

Never mind, if you can't find the original version of 'Nobody Else' on import, then you could do much worse than this one. But do try, it'll be well worth it - trust me!

Scott Keenan

Boys that sing. Take it for what it's worth.
I've never had ferociously militant opposition to the whole "boy band" phenomenon, but I am aware that the songs, for the most part, don't entail a whole lot of effort. I figured, for whatever reason, that Take That would be different...and guess what, they're not. Seriously. Go listen to just about any track on Take That (excpet for Back For Good, of course, because just about everyone's heard that) and compare it to just about anything N*Sync or O-Town has ever done. It's assembly-line songwriting (with the occasional hit), a bunch of capable singers who establish a pretty good harmony, and dependable warm fuzzy goodness. It's a boy band album, folks. Deal with it.

Nobody Else: The Wonders That A Boy Band Can Bring
Many seem to disregard boy band pop as empty, lame, ill-crafted, and a sign of disrespect to real music. But in the mid-90's, a boy band from England changed that perspective. The band was called Take That and within 4 years, they were able of taking boy band pop to a new level. First of all, the band wrote most of the material themselves. Second and last, the music is mostly made of real instruments. Just listen to the dazzling UK number one and Billboard top ten hit single Back For Good and you will know what I mean. This song is beyond any description for its versatile extraordinary lyrics that fall in the right place, the accoustic guitar ringing throughtout the whole song, and the beautiful backing harmony vocals of the entire band. Gary Barlow, the band's favorite lead singer and songwriter, has got to be one of the least appreciated songwriters in pop history. Back For Good is one of the best songs ever written. The beauty that Back For Good offers is repeated many times on Nobody Else, the delightful title track Nobody Else, the pleasant Holding Back The Tears, and the tearjerker The Day After Tomorrow featuring Mark Owen on vocals. But with the serious side of Take That comes the let's-get-down-and-party typical boy band pop side also. The energetic dance vibe flows on with such tracks as the UK number one hit Sure, a song co-written by Gary, Mark and future pop phenomenon Robbie Williams, and the songs Hanging Onto Your love, Every Guy and Lady Tonight. The highlight of the album, however, is Never Forget. Take That's last single released as a five piece band, Robbie Williams quit the group around the same time this number one single hit the airwaves in the UK. The song, despite being written solely by Gary, is a group effort when it comes to vocal duty. The lisping voice of Howard Donald, the engaging snarls of Robbie, and the whiny tone of Mark along with a hard hitting chorus feauring an entire choir and an opening with singing children. "We've come a long way...but we're not too sure where we've been" sings Howard in the opening verse of the song, and goes on by saying "There's a road going down the other side of this hill" It's pretty ironic that the remaining four members of Take That called it quits just 6 months after this song was released. The good thing is that they didn't have to go through going down any hills, they quit while they were still on top. This song defines the success and fame that Take That had been going through for the past 3 years before this classic.

Nobody Else is a good example of the wonders that boy bands can make musically if they grew some guts and had some 'real' talent. It is the band's third and last full length studio recorded album released and their best. Take That is the only boy band that I regard as artists. American boy bands don't amount to Take That's worst songs, if they have any!

I recommend picking up their Greatest Hits album, released in February 1996 to commemorate their breakup, before purchasing this one.

All Albums
I just wanna say,that all their albums are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They never looked silly and ridiculous like BSB,N'Sync and all stupid boy bands. Just buy their any album or Greatest Hits and you won't regret!!! They were the best boy band ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!