RAINBIRDS : CALL ME EASY SAY I'M STRONG LOVE ME MY WAY IT AIN'T WRONG

1. Love Was Already There To Be Found
2. Love Is A Better Word (White City Of Lights)
3. Not Exactly
4. Better Than Before
5. In Love & Alright
6. Sea Of Time
   - Part one : Rocking Song
   - Part two : Time
   - Part Three : Call Me Easy Say I'm Sorry Love Me My way It ain't wrong
7. Nowhere To Go
8. Moon
9. Jesus First!

Label : Mercury

Time : 51:30

Released : 1989

Review (Amazon) : Rainbirds made a splash in late-80s Germany with their strange and beautiful debut album "Rainbirds". The success of that record gave them increased confidence to be creative when they recorded this, their 2nd album. The band kick into the 1st track "Love Was Already..." with great energy, Katharina Franck's voice has never sounded so gorgeous as she leaps through high notes and delivers more of the poetic lines that made Rainbirds such a great proposition. Elsewhere the Berlin cabaret style influences "Love is a better word" and "Better than Before". The central title song, some 9 minutes long, is a novel meditation on loneliness and solitude, set to more superb melodic pop. "Some people, they say...take it easy, take it easy...but I know...waking up ain't easy, no, when you're lonely!" sings Katharina, as she moves from quiet murmur to beautifully clear declamation in the space of one line. The album concludes with "Jesus First", a song about the perils of being in love with a born-again Christian, and the strangely effective white female rap song "Responsible" on the CD version of the album. This was the final true "band" album by Rainbirds, as Katharina Franck went on to play radical games with the line-up and sound on subsequent records. A wonderful album and not just for Germans!