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30 Years of Bananarama [CD+DVD]

Bananarama Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (9 July 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: CD+DVD
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B008AVYOBC
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,827 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Aie A Mwana
2. Really Saying Something - Bananarama With The Fun Boy Three
3. Shy Boy
4. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
5. Cruel Summer
6. Robert De Niro's Waiting
7. Venus
8. I Heard A Rumour
9. Love In The First Degree
10. I Can't Help It
See all 22 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Really Saying Something
2. Shy Boy (Video)
3. Cheers Then
4. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
5. Cruel Summer
6. Robert De Niro's Waiting
7. Rough Justice
8. Hotline To Heaven
9. The Wild Life
10. Do Not Disturb
See all 35 tracks on this disc

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CD Description

For Bananarama fans, this CD and DVD set has been long overdue. Whilst many greatest hits compilations of the 1980s girl group have been released, this is the first to put together so many of their music videos, totally 35 in this set. 30 Years Of Bananarama includes hits such as “Venus”, “Cruel Summer”, “Help” and “Robert De Niro’s Waiting”.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Practically every video in great quality! 27 July 2012
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The girls really came through on this collection! This includes nearly every Bananarama video, clean, uncut, and with no missing intros or endings. From the Fun Boy Three video up to their most recent work.

The video sources appear to be of consistently high quality with stereo audio. Nothing looks to be a VHS transfer like some other 80's artists collections seem to be. The whole collection is mastered all together so that you can skip forward or backwards through the videos without any weird transitions by the DVD player. The only exception is the two bonus extended videos are accessed through the bonus menu.

The only missing videos I'm aware of are Careless Whisper, Waterloo, and the alternate versions of I Want You Back and Trick of the Night.

Included are all the Pop Life and Please Yourself videos that never saw a proper retail release as well as the very rare Take Me To Your Heart.

Now if we can just get the same for Kim Wilde!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant! 31 July 2012
By Steve L
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Time flies when you're having fun. Who can believe it's been 30 years since we first heard Bananarama on the radio?!

This is a great collection for the casual fan, as the CD contains Bananarama's biggest hits and includes some lesser known singles from recent years.

For long term fans, the DVD includes pretty much all the videos for their singles right from the beginning of their career through to their most recent output. Watching these clips again brought back such wonderful memories of my teen years and onwards and reminded me just why I fell in love with Bananarama to begin with. Watching Sara, Keren and Siobhan (and later Jacquie before the group becomes a duo) having fun with their do it yourself style and not taking themselves too seriously is so refreshing in this day of polished, manufactured pop stars.

Brilliant memories. Brilliant collection. Brilliant Bananarama!
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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best from the best! 12 July 2012
Format:Audio CD
The mighty Bananarama are the best girl band of all time, no doubt about it. And here are a couple of dozen reasons why in this fabulous collection of their most well-known hit singles.

It's great to hear the rich harmonies right from the very beginning with Siobhan, thru Jackie, and to the hugely talented duo Sarah and Keren have continued to be since 1992. The quality of songwriting and performance never dips for a moment, and in fact it could be argued that in their most recent recordings - the brilliant massive hits that never were, 'Love Comes', and 'Love Don't Live Here' - they have produced the best material of their entire career. No mean feat when you consider the strength of the string of famous hit singles from the 80s and 90s. It's also refreshing to hear the two remaining members sing solo parts on the more recent material and demonstrate their strong and characteristic vocals.

It's often forgotten that all three original members and the two remaining members co-penned almost all of the tracks they recorded, and classics like 'Cruel Summer', 'Robert De Niro's Waiting', 'Look on the Floor', and 'Love in the First Degree' will never lose their sparkle or pop gem status. Even the handful of covers like 'Venus', 'Na Na Hey Hey' and 'Really Saying Something' are given new invigorating life and lifted to superior heights compared to the originals.

What's probably the top pull here though is the addition of a DVD of 2 hours plus of nearly every video the band ever made. This is what all the fans have wanted for many years, and it's no disappointment. The early videos show three girls very much in charge of their image and expression, often tongue in cheek with lots of nudging and giggling, and ultimately so charming. They mature as sex sirens as the 80s progress, but never lose their sense of humour or allow anyone to sell them as mere pretty packaging. They rank with, and even predate, Madonna as women who set a trend for ensuring the woman occupies the strong role in their videos, with men usually appearing as pretty trinkets or dancers who serve to backlight the talent of the female singer. Unlike Madonna, however, they do it naturally, and without any noticeable guile or calculation - great role models!! But what's also fantastic about the DVD is that across 35 tracks you get to see and hear all the singles not included on the CD and realise that even when a song didn't make the top 20 it was still a bloody great track. "Cheers Then' and 'Trick of the Night' are stunning ballads, one naive, one bursting with power and confidence, while "Hotline to Heaven' and 'Rough Justice' show just how good their writing talents for more serious pop fare were even in their early days.

These women deserve so much more credit than they've ever been given, and could give any current girl group more than a run for their money in the melody and catchy hooks stakes. Let's hope this 30 year celebration is the big success it should be and reminds everyone just how brilliant it is to have Bananarama as part of the British music scene we are all so justly proud of.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Just brilliant!
I have waited years for a collection that included the videos are here it is!! Bananarama have the songs that get you moving whether you're on the dance floor or in your bedroom! Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jordan Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Love them then, love them now, from the first line up to the current duo, Karen and Sarah still have it.... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Alan A. Geoghegan
5.0 out of 5 stars A very good collection!!!
This is a very complete collection, with a lot of hits from Bananarama, but the real treat is the DVD... with a complete collection of all -I think- their videos.
Published 2 months ago by José Requena
5.0 out of 5 stars 30 years of bananarama
great compliation of banararama hits and the dvd is also great to have so can watch bananarama videos as well really good value with the cd and dvd
Published 3 months ago by DAVID HALL
5.0 out of 5 stars 30 Years of Bananarama
Excellent CD, a good blast from the past of the 80s. I bought this as a Christmas present for my husband and it was very well received.
Published 3 months ago by Jane
4.0 out of 5 stars Good product
It's not a complete set of the group's songs but all the ones that matter are there, and it was a lot simpler to buy this than to transfer everything from my lps.
Published 3 months ago by W. Adams
5.0 out of 5 stars bananarama 30
the reason why i have been get CD for late is that they are part of my soundtrack and music which has help me thought some bad times in my life and getting these CD which will... Read more
Published 4 months ago by stephen
4.0 out of 5 stars Good fun memory
Enjoyable to begin with, but becomes annoying after a while, bringing one back to those teenage years, that had long gone.
Published 4 months ago by Miss S Tester
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for anyone who lived through the 80s... and we can spread...
I bought this as a Christmas present for myself but I lost all my self-control as soon as the delivery van pulled out of my road (I do often find myself getting rather unduly... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Hermes Love
5.0 out of 5 stars CD + DVD - excellent
Not just a greatest hjits CD, but a far longer set of music videos on DVD as well. Love it!
Published 5 months ago by Harpers Tate
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