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Walk on Water is the ninth studio album (their tenth and final overall) by the British band Katrina and the Waves, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music). The album includes the lead single "Love Shine a Light", the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1997. It also became the band's highest charting UK single, reaching number 3. [4]
The Katrina and the Waves album was a substantial critical and commercial success, and the group had a worldwide hit with the song "Walking on Sunshine," (no. 9 US, no. 8 UK, [1] a completely re-recorded, and substantially rearranged version of the song when compared to its initial 1983 Canada-only release).
With that one caveat, Katrina and the Waves is otherwise a delight." [17] In a review for AllMusic, David Cleary wrote that re-recording ten songs from their first two albums made a lot of sense, given the "criminal" lack of attention the albums received. Recorded in what Cleary described as "an aggressive power pop style", most of the songs ...
Katrina Elizabeth Leskanich (/ l ɛ ˈ s k ɑː n ɪ tʃ / lesk-AH-nitch; [2] born April 10, 1960) is an American musician and the former lead singer of the British pop rock band Katrina and the Waves. Their song "Walking on Sunshine" was an international hit in 1985.
"Rattlesnakes" is a song by British band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, released in 1984 as the third and final single from their debut studio album of the same name. The song was written by Lloyd Cole and produced by Paul Hardiman. It peaked at number 65 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the top 100 for three weeks.
Part of this, according to Greenwald, is because main songwriter Kimberley Rew only contributed two songs to the album. Greenwald felt that there are some fine moments, however, such as Vince de la Cruz's "Sun Street" and Katrina Leskanich's "Tears for Me." He added that Rew's two songs, "Is That It" and "Lovely Lindsay," are "mini-masterpieces ...
"Walking on Sunshine" is a song written by Kimberley Rew for British rock band Katrina and the Waves' 1983 eponymous debut full-length album. The rerecorded version was at first released on the band's 1985 self-titled album as the album's second single and reached No. 4 in Australia, No. 9 in the United States and No. 8 in the United Kingdom.
The original version of the song appeared on Katrina and the Waves' 1982 EP Shock Horror! (with the band then simply named The Waves). Soon thereafter, they re-recorded the song for inclusion on their 1983 debut full-length album Walking on Sunshine, which was only released in Canada. The version included on both releases featured Rew on lead ...