- Audio CD (8 May 2006)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: EMI
- ASIN: B000EJ9KCQ
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 14,781 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
What an amazing album!!! Over the years classic electronica and it's roots have not been serviced well by compilation albums. Landscape! Buggles! Ultravox with Midge! Human League with girls! Spandau Ballet! This compilation made me realise how quickly this style of music moved away from it's dark/punk roots to be a commercially acceptable and chart friendly music form. The compilers of this compilation were themselves guilty, pretty boy pop stardum replaced great mood music. Yes, it has always been a fashion statement music; Bowie, Roxy, etc, but not at the expense of great emotional music. It became all feel good and not an expression of a great and dark time of life.
What do we find? Classic Kraftwerk, Human League (before girls), Bowie, Tubeway Army, John Foxx- if these were the roots why were the branches so jolly? Grace Jones, Donna Summer from the electronic/disco era and Magazine and Wire from the post-punk days. Totally different in style but they all fit together, reminding us that the first electronic artists came out of punk and not out of fasion magazines. A double album would have been so appreciated as this seems so short. Then we could have had other pioneers like Can, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Giorgio Moroder, Space, Sparks, Japan etc.
I cannot recommend this album enough. This is history, the roots of rave and dance music. See where the Killers and the Bravery descend from and enjoy a dark beginning that just lights up your speakers one song after another.
What do we find? Classic Kraftwerk, Human League (before girls), Bowie, Tubeway Army, John Foxx- if these were the roots why were the branches so jolly? Grace Jones, Donna Summer from the electronic/disco era and Magazine and Wire from the post-punk days. Totally different in style but they all fit together, reminding us that the first electronic artists came out of punk and not out of fasion magazines. A double album would have been so appreciated as this seems so short. Then we could have had other pioneers like Can, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Giorgio Moroder, Space, Sparks, Japan etc.
I cannot recommend this album enough. This is history, the roots of rave and dance music. See where the Killers and the Bravery descend from and enjoy a dark beginning that just lights up your speakers one song after another.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A great choice of opening track sets the tone. A lot of casual electro fans probably won't have heard the Human League do such a raw and stripped down number. But it's a great sound and a great song. And this continues all the way down. There are some absolute classics that have featured on every synth collection ever, but then there is Daniel Miller in his pre Mute days and John Foxx in his post Ultravox days. There is New Wave, New Romantic, pure synth and post punk all thrown into the mix. This diversity and the presence of some lesser known numbers might put you off, but that is what makes this album in a rather congested compilation market. You don't expect early Simple Minds or Iggy Pop to turn up on a Duran collection. In fact, the only thing missing is an early Duran number that I'm sure they would have forgiven been for.
The mix is OK, nothing particularly special but it doesn't get in the way. The sleeve notes and art is OK, but not sensational. I'm sure there are plenty more compilations that can come out of the Rhodes mix box though, and if they are as good as this then I'd go along for the ride. Recommended.
The mix is OK, nothing particularly special but it doesn't get in the way. The sleeve notes and art is OK, but not sensational. I'm sure there are plenty more compilations that can come out of the Rhodes mix box though, and if they are as good as this then I'd go along for the ride. Recommended.
22 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I always regarded Duran Duran as a throwaway teen band; certainly not a band with the creative force of a Japan, but with this compilation their musical taste and influences were more interesting than what the band ever recorded. This is a seriously good compilation. Classic tracks from the likes of Bowie(and not an obvious choice either), Simple Minds (before they embraced stadium rock and creatively died), Ultravox (without Midge Ure and all the better for it) and Human League (pre female backing singers and terrifically lo-fi) Highlights are the great electro disco Donna Summer/Giorgio Moroder track I Feel Love which never dates and continues to amaze just as it did back in '76, and Grace Jones' spectacular cover of Chrissie Hynde's Private Life, a cover which completely rearranges the song and turns it into something new, a blueprint of how cover versions should be and not the lazy duplicates they have sadly become. If you haven't got many/any of these tracks then this is an essential purchase because it basically pre-empts 80s electronica (nearly all of these songs were recorded in the 70s) and indeed betters most of what was on offer during the 80s. One of the better celebrity compilations and somewhat surprisingly appeals to this non - Duran fan.
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