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The Best Of

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: The Specials

Release Date March 31, 2008
Comprising an excellent greatest hits collection with a dvd of live performances and promo videos, this compilation is essential. Unless you're a big fan or completist this package contains everything you could want from The Specials' enduring legacy. Much of their music still sounds vital and contemporary. Along with The Beat's recent 2 cd compilation, You Just Can't Beat It (and maybe The Selecter's greatest hits), you have a capsule history of the late 70s/early 80s ska revival. Recommended.

CD-Charts Position 72
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21 Singles

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Jesus & Mary Chain

Release Date May 27, 2002
Only the first track is poor, the rest are great, and I got paid to see them in concert, and they were fab, just regret losing interest way back then after psycocandy-they kept the inspiration going long after.Keep going boys, for as long as you can hold a spectrum.

CD-Charts Position 73
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Walking In The Sunshine - The Best Of Bad Manners

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Bad Manners

Release Date May 26, 2008
This makes a great addition to a CD collection, both for die hard fans and nostalgic casual listeners. Surprisingly witty and well though out lyrics.

CD-Charts Position 74
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The Peel Sessions

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Magazine

Release Date October 27, 2008
As far as I can understand, this is the content of the third CD which is/was part of the deleted boxed set "Maybe It's Right To Be Nervous Now?".
If this is so, a subsequent reviewer who ventures into buying this and owns already that boxed set will be so kind to make comparisons?

As far as now, if you already own the boxed set, there are no reasons to rebuy the same versions, I believe.

As for the five starring: if you love Magazine you usually give them five.

CD-Charts Position 75
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Unknown Pleasures

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by: Joy Division

Release Date January 04, 2000
This remarkable debut on Factory has simply grown in stature in the years since its release. At odds with the general Madchester scene, and indeed with everything else around at the time, it was impossible to tell who the members of this band had been listening to. Though our listening perceptions are inevitably coloured by the tragic future of Ian Curtis, there is an undeniably awesome stature in these impeccably produced sides

CD-Charts Position 76
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An Anthology

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Undertones

Release Date September 22, 2008
This is clearly an indispensible release for anyone with fond memories of Derry's finest. Beautifully packaged and including much unreleased material.
BUT... where is second (and some say finest) single Get Over You?? There's a demo version on the bonus disc but not the original single!

CD-Charts Position 77
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Remain in Light

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by: Talking Heads

Release Date April 24, 1984
Being in the ownership of every studio album the Talking Heads have released, "Remain In Light" is my favourite of them all. If you're new to Talking Heads, I would recommend BUYING THIS ALBUM - it's much more accessible than their more widely-known "Fear Of Music" and yet holds most of the experimental nature of the previous album which serves "Remain In Light"'s brilliance.

The first track, "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" is my favourite Talking Heads song, and the album also features the amazing "The Great Curve" and the widely-accredited "Once In A Lifetime".

Aside from this album, get "Fear Of Music". I'd also reccommend "Naked" - it's underrated and amazing.

CD-Charts Position 78
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The Best Of The First 10 Years

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Elvis Costello

Release Date June 04, 2007
Yes I know what you are going to say - another collection. Well, yes you're right, but its the primer for a series of themed releases being put together by the man himself. And after 30 yrs of brilliant, barbed, insightful songwriting, by a true literary genius of the era, isn't he entitled to have his say. Nicely packaged digipack, accompanying lyric/picture booklet, some of the best songs of the last 30 yrs and all for six quid. Come on you can't really complain. Get the themed 'Rock And Roll Music' collection that's also just out and you won't be disappointed. I'm waiting on the next in the series, long may his pen be filled with ink.

CD-Charts Position 79
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The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Nick Cave

Release Date May 11, 1998
I am no Nick Cave afficianado but it seems the man is making a real come-back into the critical consciousness with his most recent album, Dig!!! Lazurus Dig!!! Of course, critical trends mean almost nothing, and if this excellent compliation tells us anything, it's that Cave has been writing strange and powerful music for three decades. What is nice about this Best Of is that there is no contemporaneous filler - no bonus tracks or live outtakes - used to market the CD. The selection - though always debateable on artists who have had such a rich discography - seems representative (if not totally comprehensive) of their best work.

While Cave and the Bad Seeds have continued to release bold and challenging music in the new millennium, this compilation is a great introduction ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 80
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Penthouse and Pavement

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Heaven 17

Release Date August 07, 2006
This LP is a classic. A true ageless piece of work. Here you can trace quite a few future types of music here. The title track alone points towards future music from artists such as Squarepusher (in use of the bass), House music (the piano stabs in the instrumental breakdown) and, in Facist Grove Thing, the keyboard parts are copied lock-stock-and-barrel by 808 State in most of their early work.

Remaster has one major flaw, and the reason why this edition misses 5 stars of greatness. The MASSIVE audio dropout on the title track (just before the lines "Pistol, Pavements, No TV") is criminal, and just does not appear on the original LP, or any of the compilation LP's I have heard this on since (it was on 12"/80's comp perfectly). Shame. :(