Ultra Violet (Bananarama album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Ultra Violet / I Found Love
Type = Album
Artist = Bananarama


Released = 1995
Recorded = September 1994-April 1995
Genre = Pop/Dance
Length =
Label = ZYX Records
Producer = Gary Miller
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:70dnvwrya9qk link]
Last album = "Bunch of Hits"
(1993)
This album = "Ultra Violet / I Found Love"
(1995)
Next album = "Master Series"
(1996)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Type = Album
Upper caption = Alternate cover


Lower caption = Japan-only cover

"Ultra Violet" and "I Found Love" are two titles given to the seventh studio album released by British girl group, Bananarama, in 1995. Originally released in Japan only, with the title "I Found Love", the album was renamed and repackaged as "Ultra Violet" in other countries, including the U.S., Australia, Canada, and continental Europe, where it was marketed either at the same time or in the following years. Neither "Ultra Violet" nor "I Found Love" were ever released in the UK, where the band had not had any hits since their 1993 cover of "More, More, More" (and would not again until 2005 with the single "Move in My Direction").

The album was released on various labels, including ZYX Records and DigIt International, depending upon the different countries, due to the fact that Bananarama had no major record deal after leaving London Records, which had produced all of their works before 1993 and fired them after the commercial flop of their sixth studio album, the Abba-influenced, "Please Yourself". Musically, the 1995 album continued Bananarama's europop sound, and it was not a success commercially. Its biggest success came only from the album's first single, "Every Shade of Blue", which sold well enough in Canada to chart in the Top 40. It also peaked at Number 94 in Australia. Two more singles were taken from the two editions: the title track, "I Found Love", and "Take Me to Your Heart", which was heavily remixed for the single version, which turned it from a rhythm guitar-based, almost acoustic tune into a europop number, much alike the other album tracks.

"I Found Love" track listing

#"Every Shade of Blue" (Dallin/Miller/Torch/Woodward)
#"Rhythm of Life" (Dallin/Miller/Paul/Torch/Woodward)
#"Take Me to Your Heart" (Dallin/Miller/Paul/Torch/Woodward)
#"Prove Your Love" (Dallin/Miller/Paul/Torch/Woodward)
#"Take Me Away" (Dallin/Miller/Paul/Torch/Woodward)
#"System" (Dallin/Lee/Miller/Paul/Torch/Woodward)
#"Maybe the Next Time" (Dallin/Miller/Paul/Torch/Woodward)
#"You've Really Got Something" (Dallin/Miller/Paul/Torch/Woodward)
#"Time Out" (Dallin/Miller/Paul/Torch/Woodward)
#"Don't Stop Me Now" (Dallin/Miller/Paul/Woodward)
#"Give In to Me" (Dallin/Miller/Paul/Torch/Woodward)
#"I Found Love" (Dallin/Komuro/Paul/Woodward)

*The track listing of "Ultra Violet" is identical, but omitting the last song, "I Found Love."