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The Best of The Proclaimers
~The Proclaimers (Artist)
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Chrysalis (Audio CD) - May 13, 2002 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Though The Proclaimers have been having hits since 1987, when "Letter
from America" became an unlikely but welcome chart-topper, they have
recorded only sporadically. So while the time feels right for a Best
Of collection, this is mostly drawn from just four albums. In what
is either an apology, or... |
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The Best of Neil Diamond
~Neil Diamond (Artist)
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Spectrum (Audio CD) - October 23, 2000 |
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music fan, HULL, East Yorkshire United Kingdom, February 4, 2005
His GREATEST Hits - Credible Music!!
Forgot your current image of Neil Diamond as a sparkly-shirted, Vegas
cabaret superstar, these tracks from his greatest period. A cheap cd,
packed full of classics (and all the right versions!), these date from a
time when Diamond was a songwriter on top of his game producing
fantastic, credible,... |
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The Joshua Tree
~U2 (Artist) |
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Island (Audio CD) - March 1987 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Having nearly exhausted their capacity for pop-song politics on War
and The Unforgettable Fire, U2 turned toward themes of personal
identity and complex relationships on The Joshua Tree. Not that
the group was willing to come down off the barricades entirely: "Mothers
of the Disappeared" and... |
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The Best Of: 1980-1990
~U2 (Artist) |
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Island (Audio CD) - November 9, 1998 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
One need hear only the first notes of this collection--the Edge's
ringing guitar notes ushering in "Pride (In the Name of Love)"--to be
taken back to 1984: Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher rule the Western
world, the L.A. Olympics is the top sports story, and Ms. Pac-Man reigns
at arcades. In rock... |
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Greatest Hits
~Blondie (Artist)
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Chrysalis (Audio CD) - October 21, 2002 |
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Blondie formed in the mid 1970s amidst a thriving club scene in New
York's East Village. They and their peers The Ramones, Talking Heads and
Television got their start in the city's hottest clubs: CBGB's and Max's
Kansas City. With a genre-bending style that fused pop, punk and
hip-hop, Blondie... |
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Best of 1990-2000
~U2 (Artist) |
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Island (Audio CD) - November 11, 2002 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Best of 1990-2000 can be seen as an introduction to the
reinvented U2 (Part One), the group who ruined irony for everyone. Gone
were the mullets, canyon-scraping guitars and "locust winds", and out
came the fly shades, leather and TV remote. Bono hid behind a mask,
started enjoying himself, and... |
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Brothers In Arms
~Dire Straits (Artist)
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Vertigo (Audio CD) - June 3, 1996 |
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Dire Straits' fifth album will probably be remembered as the record that
ushered in the CD generation, and therefore (depending on your
affiliations) a work of extreme evil or an object lesson in
craftsmanship. In truth though, it's neither. Inevitably, some moments
haven't dated so well. "Money For... |
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The Very Best of Sting and the Police
~Sting and the Police
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A & M (Audio CD) - February 18, 2002 |
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music fan, Tenterden, Kent United Kingdom, March 22, 2004
Brilliant from start to finish
An album full of brilliant classic tracks, but a glaring omission in
"Shape of My Heart", recently defiled by the awful Sugar Babes and Craig
David. If you think you like Sting, trust me, you do: buy this,its
great! |
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Achtung Baby
~U2 (Artist) |
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Island (Audio CD) - October 1991 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Even though it was greeted at the time as U2's reinvention as a
dance/rock post-modern revue, with a bit of post-Wall Berlin thrown in
for luck, distance now shows that Achtung Baby is in fact a suite
of extraordinarily perceptive and tender songs on the breakdown of the
Edge's marriage. "Who's... |
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Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton
~Eric Clapton (Artist)
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Reprise (Audio CD) - October 18, 19 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
If this is your first exposure to Eric Clapton, a bit of bewilderment
would be in order. This is the legendary guitar icon. This is (as his
early apostles once proclaimed) God. Ranging from the mid-80s through to
the late 90s, The Clapton Chronicles owes less to the
groundbreaking blues-rock of... |
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All That You Can't Leave Behind
~U2 (Artist) |
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Island (Audio CD) - May 30, 2005 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
If U2 hadn't used the title already, "A Sort Of Homecoming" might have
suited this, their 10th studio album. All That You Can't Leave Behind
sounds, at various points, like any or all of U2's previous albums, as
if the band are sending postcards back from a protracted ramble through
previously... |
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The Best of Me
~Bryan Adams (Artist)
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Mercury (Audio CD) - November 14, 1999 |
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Obviously, "Summer Of 69" is here--the blue-collar rock anthem that made
Bryan Adams' name as Springsteen's main contender and stoked the fires
of many a young man's rock & roll dreams. But The Best Of Me
demonstrates that Adams has had a chequered career and for every jukebox
classic, there have... |
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The Best of Simple Minds
~Simple Minds (Artist)
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Virgin (Audio CD) - November 5, 2001 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
The title of this compilation tells the truth--almost. Although one is
moved to question the validity of including the Raven Maize club hit
"Real Life"--selected on account of it sampling the tonal poetry of
"Theme From Great Cities"(a prime slice of the early Minds' funked-up
Eurosynth futurism)... |
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Greatest Hits
~The Pretenders (Artist)
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Wea (Audio CD) - September 18, 2000 |
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music fan, Truro, Cornwall United Kingdom, January 18, 2004
a nice selection from a consistently amazing rock band!
as other reviewers mentioned, the pretenders' 'greatest hits' is just an
updated version of 'the singles' collection, issued in the 80s. owners
of the latter will just find this a waste of money, unless you're
willing to spend around £10 on a few extras.
'greatest hits', however, is the perfect album... |
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Greatest Hits
~The Police (Artist)
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A & M (Audio CD) - September 1992 |
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music fan, SANDTON, South Africa, October 27, 2003
Great blend of rock & reggae
This is a superb collection of Police singles, from the early days of
Roxanne and Can't Stand Losing You - both of which were considered
controversial songs because of their subject matter. The Police very
successfully integrated reggae rhythms into their sound, as demonstrated
by the aforementioned... |
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Alchemy - Live
~Dire Straits (Artist)
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Vertigo (Audio CD) - June 3, 1996 |
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music fan, Telford, Shropshire United Kingdom, September 28, 2004
Essential To Own
I bought the two tape version of Alchemy back in '84 and only threw the
tapes away - reluctantly - when they wouldn't play any more about 12
years later. At the time I did not expect to to get another copy.
However with the re-release I can once again listen to one of the best
live albums I have... |
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Blues Breakers
~John Mayall (Artist),
Eric Clapton |
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Decca (Audio CD) - December 15, 2000 |
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Rarely has any single record album induced such a shift in popular
music. Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton not only catapulted
Clapton to the helm of the burgeoning British blues-rock scene, it
likewise made significant noise on the other side of the Atlantic--where
the blues had literally been... |
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The Singles 1992 - 2003
~No Doubt (Artist)
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Interscope (Audio CD) - December 1, 2003 |
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Though they've suffered death, departure and fraught internal and
external relationships, No Doubt have kept faith with fun throughout, as
The Singles very clearly proves. As their troubles have made them
far from prolific, it's culled almost entirely from three albums--Return
of Saturn, Rock Steady... |
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Love Over Gold
~Dire Straits (Artist)
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Vertigo (Audio CD) - June 3, 1996 |
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music fan, Twickenham, Middlesex United Kingdom, October 29, 2004
Love over gold - Seminal
I am nothing but a simple man of classical education. In the 80's there
was one band that your parents liked but secretly so did you. As you
hear Telegraph Road for the first time in over 10 years you will
understand. One word - ANTHEM, |
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Nebraska
~Bruce Springsteen
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Columbia (Audio CD) - May 5, 2003 |
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Nebraska is a cruel landscape of serial killers, shady deals,
jobless workers pushed to the edge, brothers who finally just look the
other way. Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and little else,
Bruce Springsteen mixes together his own Jersey mythology with bits of
Woody Guthrie, the Delmore... |