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  • Audio CD (3 Sep 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B000006XKP
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,044 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Collecting the best of their eight years at Virgin Records,COLLECTION shows that China Crisis followed the same path as many UK post-punk pop bands. Early singles like "African and White" and "Working With Fire and Steel" are knotty, angular tunes which twist and turn into interesting--some would say difficult--shapes.
Starting with their career highlight third album, 1985's Walter Becker-produced FLAUNT THE IMPERFECTION, China Crisis went in a calmer, smoother and almost commercial direction, resulting in their finest song, the beautiful, vibes-laden "Black Man Ray", and their biggest hit, the breathy "Arizona Sky".

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4.0 out of 5 stars This Took My Breath Away, That Doesn't Happen Everyday, 17 May 2007
By Coincidence Vs Fate (Warwickshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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While this collection is the oldest and least comprehensive of all the China Crisis Best Of's and Collections you can get, it's probably the best of them.

This was released 17 years ago, at the end of the bands career with Virgin. All the singles you'd expect are here: "Christian", "Wishful Thinking", "Black Man Ray" and "King In A Catholic Style". You also get some singles you may have missed first time around "Working With Fire & Steel", "Arizona Sky" and "You Did Cut Me". On first release this collection came with a bonus CD of b-sides, etc, which was fantastic.

Shucks, I miss you guys.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly suprising!, 30 Jun 2009
By Craig Taylor (Scuthorpe, UK) - See all my reviews
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I first heard this album when I was a kid in the 1990's whilst on holiday where my dad had copied the CD on to casette allowing use to listen to it in the car, and what can I say, I loved it then, but now rediscovering it more than a decade later, I can say the songs are stil as good.

The album consists of a wide variety of songs that are made up of China Crisis's own unique style. My personal favourites are Tradegy and Mystery and King in a Catholic Style, but I must say there isn't a bad song on the album.

It is a crying shame that China Crisis never had the success they deserved and that they are now relatively unknown. It remains a mystery why similar bands such as Aha had great successes and China Crisis, although they had hit singles and albums, they have disappeared.

But as long as this collection is available there music will live on, well worth a listen. A true forgotten 80's band!
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5.0 out of 5 stars great album and and so easy to purchase from amazon, 20 Sep 2009
By Mr. C. J. Casey "chelsea" (london) - See all my reviews
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saw china crisis supporting OMD and it brought back memories of how good they were and 80s music, and amazon has anything from that time
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