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Crushing the rose, you smile to the camera.......

Advantages: Absolute class music-making
Disadvantages: None at all

Fashion were lumped in with the early 80's New Romantic movement, presumably because they all looked good and used synthesisers, but musically easily knocked their peers like Duran and Spandau into a cocked hat. Think more of them as Roxy Music's younger, hipper brothers, throw in the sights and sounds of late-night jazz in smoke-filled night clubs full of wide boys and sassy girls, penthouse suite lovemaking at 3AM, fast cars, beautiful women and ...
...this "Best Of" basically is, originally took five months to record, with three different studios used (Cambridge, Paris and Cologne) so lord only knows how much it must have cost to make. Arista released four singles from the album and not one made the charts, though the album itself did go Top 10 in June 1982. All in all not the best way to get an extension on your recording contract! The line up at the time of release was Dave "Dee" Harriss (vocals, ...

pinkmatchstick 08.09.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Height Of Fashion, The - Fashion

Blonde on Blonde

Advantages: Collection of classy pop
Disadvantages: Either you like Eighties revival or you don't

...off. ~~ Backtracking Their best known albums are Parallel Lines (1978), from which the tracks Picture This, Sunday Girl and Heart of Glass are taken, and 'Eat to the Beat', from 1979, with Dreaming and Atomic. During the mid to late 1980's, their singles experimented more with different styles, such as cross over rap. Debbie Harry's inspirational look, a mix of glamour and defiance and their outstanding music definitely influenced and inspired ...
...more recently, Gwen Stefani. ~~ Songwriting Credits Apart from the following, most of the songs on this compilation were co-written by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. 'Call Me' was co-written with Giogio Moroder, while The Tide is High is a cover of a song by John Holt. Denis was a cover of a 1960's song. ~~ Tracks 1. Heart Of Glass, 1981 2. Denis, 1981 3. The Tide Is High, 1980 4. In The Flesh 5. Sunday Girl, 1986 6. Dreaming 7. Hanging On ...

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Review of Best Of Blondie, The - Blondie

The Talking heads zenith…

Advantages: truly ground breaking
Disadvantages: nothing comes to mind

This 1980 release from one of my favourite bands of the time was the last in a trilogy of albums released with Brian Eno producing the previous 2 being “More songs about buildings and food” and “Fear of Music”, this album took further the “African” influences first used on the previous album “Fear of Music” For this incarnation of the band they added to the normal line-up of personal Byrne, Harrison, ...
...Adrian Belew who had played for Frank Zappa and David Bowie in the past. Another change was the use of several vocal tracks, where before the songs were monologues with only David Byrne voice, now they used several vocal tracks that featured other people’s voices apart from Mr Byrne. In the mix was Eno’s voice along with Nona Hendrix from the trio “Labelle”. Along with extra vocal tracks the band were using a large amount ...

Miles13 04.02.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Remain In Light - Talking Heads

GIRLS OF THE EIGHTIES

Advantages: Great band
Disadvantages: None

...was mainly due to personality clashes within the band. In 1991 they made a compilation album "The Bangles Greatest Hits". I purchased this, and it is fantastic, it has all their best songs on it. I would highly recommend it, especially if you are a fan. ...

tallguy 12.08.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Greatest Hits - Bangles (The)

Dreaming Is Free

Advantages: Some all-time classics
Disadvantages: None, Nil, Nada

...let’s get started on the Greatest Hits… TRACKLISTING 1) Dreaming (Harry/Stein) 2) Call Me (Moroder/Harry) 3) One Way Or Another (Harry/Harrison) 4) Heart Of Glass (Harry/Stein) 5) The Tide Is High (Holt/Evans/Barrett) 6) X-Offender (Harry/Valentine) 7) Hanging On The Telephone (Lee) 8) Rip Her To Shreds (Harry/Stein) 9) Rapture (Harry/Stein) 10) Atomic (Harry/Destri) 11) Picture This (Harry/Stein/Destri) 12) In The Flesh (Harry/Stein) ...
...is represented here on the Greatest Hits package with three entries, ‘Rip Her To Shreds’, ‘X-Offender’ and ‘In The Flesh’. ‘Rip Her To Shreds’ is a wonderfully chaotic, violent tale of jealousy and cruelty complete with all sorts of memories from modern popular culture such as comic books, King Kong and Brenda Starr. An exercise in high trash, it cuts the target of Harry’s venom to pieces simply for the way she looks. However, the drama and nastiness ...

Ryan74 20.01.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Greatest Hits - Blondie