- Audio CD (12 Aug 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: CD
- Label: Connoisseur Collection
- ASIN: B00004U67V
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 159,288 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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I purchased this compilation album as I already own and love the 'Trick or treat' album which is brilliant!!
I have to say that I wasn't disappointed with this collection at all,Im actually surprised that I hadn't added it to my collection before!!!
I have to say that I wasn't disappointed with this collection at all,Im actually surprised that I hadn't added it to my collection before!!!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Here's one Fastway release that (until recently) I never even knew existed. Nineteen tracks from the first four Fastway lp's - their self-titled debut ('83), 'All Fired Up' ('84), 'The World Waits For You' ('86) and 'Trick Or Treat' ('87). So there you go. I recently purchased a live, 2007 self-released CD of Fastway performing at the Marquee in London. Looks to have been put out by Fast Eddie Clarke. Haven't seen it YET available on Amazon. Although the disc runs a mere 37 minute, it's still pretty good - new vocalist Toby Jepson smokes!
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Yet another Fastway re-packaging from BGO
12 Sep 2000
Format:Audio CD
This is the second Fastway effort from England's BGO (Beat Goes On) label. Over the summer, they released in the U.S. the first two Fastway records on one CD. This latest release pulls tunes from all of the Dave King-era Fastway releases, including the near-impossible-to-find "Waiting For The Roar".
What you get in "Collection" is 19 tunes, with the 15 of the 19 being from either "Fastway", "All Fired Up" or the soundtrack to "Trick or Treat". As those three albums are now fairly easily found, it raises the question - is this "Collection" worth it?
The answer is that it depends on your perspective. As a completist, you may want this for your own library. But it may also depend on your feelings about "Waiting For The Roar". WFTR was definitely a calculated effort to sound more commercial for Fastway. In fact, keyboards are very prominent and the song structures and production values also are very much tilted towards commercial rock such as it was in the '80's. Personally, I was torn over WFTR. I really liked some of the songs, but some of the songs just sounded flat. Fortunately, "Collection" grabs basically the strongest songs from WFTR, including my fave, "The World Waits For You". So to me, I picked up "Collection" based on that song alone.
As for the re-packaging itself, there are liner notes from Dave Ling of Classic Rock magazine. The notes provide an interesting overview of the band and are suprisingly non-apologetic in describing events and even reviewing the records. We also learn that after the "failure" of WFTR, that Fastway's last chance from the lable was to come up with a good disc for the "Trick or Treat" soundtrack. Given that information, it's very interesting to hear the huge differences between WFTR and TOT.
Overall, if you like Fastway, this is a disc worth having. You'll get over 75 minutes of Fastway, including 4 hard-to-find tracks.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
ALL FIRED UP FOR THIS ONE!
5 Aug 2001
Format:Audio CD
Well, as i was perusing amazon.com looking for something to pick up, i came across this little ditty.Enjoying my teen years in the 80s,this was one of the bands that i loved,sadly i was one of the few people i knew that even cared about this band,but for the life of me i cant understand why thier label never got this band over with the fans of rock music at the time. I was doubly pleased to find tracks from the hard to find "waiting for the roar" release, which i still have on vinyl.This thankfully omits any releases of the post-dave king incarnation of fastway,which spawned 2 of the most unforgettable releases of rock history which were "bad,bad girls" and "on target".But i digress, as far as this one is concerned it also features tracks from the trick or treat record, and one of the greatest rock songs ever, "say what you will".Eddie Clarke who was the guitarist from fastway made a major mistake by letting dave king go, this guy easily is the most underrated singer i have ever heard, any fans of dave king can find his work on a cd from a band called katmandu, which only released one cd but it was a great one at that, dave can be heard now in a band called flogging molly which can be described as a irish-folk,rock,punk band who are currently touring on the warped tour 2001.Any fans of fastway who want a greatest hits collection do themselves a service to get this one rather than the other one out there released by thier label.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Waiting for the "release"
6 Oct 2000
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Fastway is one of the most under-rated bands of the 80's and early 90's. This collection is a pretty good represenative of the band and includes songs from what I feel is one of the best albums of all time--Waiting for the Roar. I am fortunate enough to have 2 copies of WFTR, and I would not give them up for anything. A couple of years ago, I would have probably bought this cd just for the first four tracks. I see by Amazon's sales ranking that this set is selling pretty good considering, so why won't some record company re-release WFTR and All Fired Up? I guess it's the same story as Twisted Sister's Come Out and Play--it took years for someone to release that one--Dee Himself.
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