Goodbye to the Island

Rock · 1981 · 15 tracks · 1h 3m

Goodbye to the Island

A transitional collection of coastal soft rock and piano ballads. Tyler's signature rasp finds a quieter, more wistful home before her pivot to stadium melodrama.

January 1, 1981 · RCA

A weary, salt-aired collection of songs about moving on and looking back.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks · 1h 3m

01

I'm Just a Woman

5:07

02

I Believe in Your Sweet Love

4:21

04

Get Out of My Head

4:15

05

Sitting On the Edge of the Ocean (Single Version)

2:57

06

Sola a La Orilla Del Mar

3:25

07

I'm Just a Woman (Single Version)

3:50

08

Sitting On the Edge of the Ocean (Alternate Version)

3:31

09

We Danced On the Ceiling

4:53

10

Wild Love

4:37

11

The Closer You Get

3:47

12

Sometimes When We Touch

4:22

13

Goodbye to the Island

3:09

14

Wild Side of Life

3:51

15

A Whiter Shade of Pale

4:27

16

Sitting On the Edge of the Ocean

3:22

Moments Worth Waiting For

The way her voice cracks with genuine fatigue on the opening lines of I'm Just a Woman

Where This Album Departs

How does Goodbye to the Island sound next to the rest of Bonnie Tyler's catalogue?

Ocean+4.0σ

Ocean saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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