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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Cars - Gary Numan | |||
| 2. Sometimes - Erasure | |||
| 3. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood | |||
| 4. Who's That Girl - Eurythmics | |||
| 5. Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins | |||
| 6. Fade To Grey - Visage | |||
| 7. Imagination - Belouis Some | |||
| 8. Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat | |||
| 9. The Look Of Love (Part 1) - ABC | |||
| 10. Take On Me - A-ha | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Mad World - Tears For Fears | |||
| 2. Only You - Yazoo | |||
| 3. Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood | |||
| 4. Axel F (Theme From Beverly Hills Cop) - Harold Faltermeyer | |||
| 5. Crockett's Theme - Jan Hammer | |||
| 6. Victim Of Love - Erasure | |||
| 7. (Feels Like) Heaven - Fiction Factory | |||
| 8. Quiet Life - Japan | |||
| 9. Einstein A Go-Go - Landscape | |||
| 10. Oh Yeah - Yello | |||
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Customer Reviews
Contained here are the well known synth classics, the breezy Gary Numan's "Cars", the poignant Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy", the Axel F theme from Beverley Hills Cop and the surreal, catchy Art of Noise's "Close To The Edit"
However there are plenty of other less-well known synth classics here such as Godley and Creme's ominous ghost story "Under Your Thumb", The Assembly's tear-jerking and bravely honest tale of unrequitted love "Never Never" the Thompson Twins' three offerings, the uplifting "You Take Me Up", the tongue-in-cheek "Love On Your Side" and the thoughtful "Hold Me Now".
There is also the paranoid Tears for Fears "Mad World" (I prefer this one to their other loud songs) cold Visage's "Fade To Grey" and the poignant "Wishing I had a photograph of you" by Flock of Seaguls. The electronic musical landscapes are truly absorbing and cold, but yet very relaxing and purifying. Plus there is some wonderful infectious dance numbers like "Living on the Ceiling" the mellow "Imagination" and the tongue in cheek "Pop Muzik"
Well worth picking up to listen to some real creative and expressive music done from the soul.
For the 30 going on 40 somethings out there, this will bring back the memories of the good, cool, and sometimes plain weird of the '80's.
If you can lay your hands on copy don't let it get away. Put on your baggy pleated trousers and pointy shoes, have a wedge haircut and don your makeup (purely for the boys!), and dream 'new romantic'.
This is not the kind of album you would want to sit down and listen to, but the kind of album to stick on when the radio is no good and you are doing the washing up.
Does the content fulfil the description, well no again. The best of new wave? - a-ha were hardly new wave, and how can any album claim to be the best of electro pop without including tracks by Kraftwerk or Depeche Mode? And how can they justify 3 Thompson Twins tracks?
For a journey back to the 80s, including a couple of stops at the 70s, this is a worthwhile purchase. But lets hope that if Electric becomes a franchise, that they include more pioneering synth music and less fillers.
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