Poet Amanda Lear is a compilation album of recordings by French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 singer Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

, released in the former U.S.S.R. by state-owned label Melodiya

Melodiya

Melodiya is a Russian record label. It was the state-owned major record company/label of the Soviet Union.-History:It was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya"...

 in 1990. The LP comprises material from Lear's three studio albums Never Trust a Pretty Face

Never Trust a Pretty Face

Never Trust a Pretty Face is the third studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in January, 1979 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc...

(1979) Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge (Amanda Lear album)

Sweet Revenge is the second studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in February, 1978 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. The album contained European hit singles "Follow Me", "Enigma ", "Gold" and "Run Baby Run"...

(1978) and I Am A Photograph

I Am a Photograph

I Am A Photograph is the debut album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in April 1977 by West German label Ariola Records. It contains the European hit singles "La Bagarre" , "Blood and Honey" , "Tomorrow", "Alphabet" and "Blue Tango." Later editions of the album also feature the single "Queen...

(1977), the only track from Never Trust a Pretty Face not to be approved of the Russian authorities and included on Poet Amanda Lear was - not very surprisingly - the German wartime classic "Lili Marleen

Lili Marleen

"Lili Marleen" is a German love song which became popular during World War II.Written in 1915 during World War I, the poem was published under the title "Das Lied eines jungen Soldaten auf der Wacht" in 1937, and was first recorded by Lale Andersen in 1939 under the...

". While several other flexi disc

Flexi disc

The flexi disc is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable...

s with Lear were released in both the Soviet Union and other parts of the Eastern Bloc

Eastern bloc

The term Eastern Bloc or Communist Bloc refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact...

 during the 1980's, the Poet Amanda Lear compilation was one of the few releases to actually be pressed on vinyl and to be released with a proper picture sleeve. This particular pressing of the album, C60-13935-6, was made in 1990 at Melodiya's record plant in Riga

Riga

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, now the capital of Latvia

Latvia

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, but it had been released as early as 1985 in other parts of the USSR.

Track listing

Side A

1. "Реклама Вокруг Нас" ("Fashion Pack (Studio 54)") (A. Monn - A. Lear) - 5:05
2. "Забудь Это" ("Forget It") (A. Monn - A. Lear) - 4:10
3. "Голубое Танго" ("Blue Tango") (Leroy Anderson - A. Lear) - 2:40
4. "Голливудский Кадр" ("Hollywood Flashback") (A. Monn - A. Lear) - 4:31
5. "Комиксы" ("Comics") (C. Ricanek - A. Lear) - 3:40
6. "Никогда Не Доверяй Красивому Лицу" ("Never Trust A Pretty Face") (A. Monn - A. Lear) - 4:45
   • Tracks 1, 2 & 6 from Never Trust a Pretty Face
     Never Trust a Pretty Face
     Never Trust a Pretty Face is the third studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in January, 1979 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc...
     
     (1979)
   • Track 3 from I Am a Photograph
     I Am a Photograph
     I Am A Photograph is the debut album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in April 1977 by West German label Ariola Records. It contains the European hit singles "La Bagarre" , "Blood and Honey" , "Tomorrow", "Alphabet" and "Blue Tango." Later editions of the album also feature the single "Queen...
     
     (1977)
   • Tracks 4 & 5 from Sweet Revenge
     Sweet Revenge (Amanda Lear album)
     Sweet Revenge is the second studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in February, 1978 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. The album contained European hit singles "Follow Me", "Enigma ", "Gold" and "Run Baby Run"...
     
     (1978)

Side B

1. "Сфинкс" ("The Sphinx") (A. Monn - A. Lear) - 4:20
2. "Черные Ямы" ("Black Holes") (A. Monn - A. Lear) - 5:00
3. "Интеллектуально" ("Intellectually") (C. Ricanek - A. Lear) - 4:15
4. "Зеркало" ("Miroirs") (A. Lear) - 2:00
5. "Мечтатель" ("Dreamer (South Pacific)") (R. Pietsch - A. Lear) - 5:10
   • All tracks from Never Trust a Pretty Face
     Never Trust a Pretty Face
     Never Trust a Pretty Face is the third studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in January, 1979 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc...
     
     (1979)