TGIF (album)

TGIF is the second studio album by the Scottish rock band Taking Back Friday, released on 6 May 1981 in the United States by Dreidel Recordings and on the following day in the United Kingdom by EMI Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in both the United Kingdom and North America from October 1980 to March 1981. The album's production was credited to the band's keyboardist and founding member Jerry Maclyn, and it was also TBF's first album on which Carl Andy collaborator Jim Stifield served as engineer.

The album exhibited the band's evolving musical style of Art rock-derived material and their keyboard riff-based sound. It has been described as the band's most poppy and upbeat album. Eight of the ten songs were written by the band while the other two were reinterpritations "My Girl" by The Temptations and "Lola" by The Kinks. Two singles, "Never Forget" and "Face of Another" peaked as a top-ten single in over a dozen markets around the world.

TGIF became a commercial success and recieved positive reviews, many calling it an improvement over the first album. Since its release, various writers and music critics have regularly cited TGIF as one of the greatest and most decade defining albums of the 1980s.

Album Cover
The cover features the character Genki Horiguchi from the manga 1976 Ganbare Genki by Yū Koyama. learning from their mistakes regarding first album which used Tetsujin 28-go, the band asked Koyama permission to use the character, which he accepted, thus the cover was used in all regions, including Japan.

Side One

 * Face of Another
 * TGIF
 * My Girl (originally by The Temptations)
 * Never Forget
 * No Time for Sadness

Side Two

 * High Speed
 * Until Midnight
 * Story of a Young Lad
 * Without Love
 * Lola (originally by The Kinks)