![]() Torn would have made the UK number one slot were it not for the great British public’s predilection for putting records like Aqua’s Barbie Girl there instead though given Imbruglia’s first single remains a staple on AOR stations around the globe, it’s safe to say she’s had the last laugh. Left Of The Middle sold over seven million copies worldwide, which at the time made it the best-selling debut album by any female Australian vocalist. Fortunately given the state of some of the music around at the time (the Teletubbies successfully made number one in 1997), this didn’t affect its popularity. It sounded like it had been made by humans rather than a computer fed with deeply uninspiring code. ![]() The album contained 12 tracks of considered pop/pop-rock in varying tempos and timbres. ![]() It would have been easy (and no doubt commercially astute) to have followed the previous inhabitant of Ramsey Street down an avenue of Stock, Aitken and Waterman-inspired brain mash, but Imbruglia’s record turned out to be something of a revelation. Natalie Imbruglia’s Left Of The Middle was released a decade after a certain other female antipodean ex-soap star landed in the lap of the music business. ![]()
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