- Audio CD (6 April 2009)
- Number of Discs: 4
- Format: Box set
- Label: EMI
- ASIN: B001VEJ03C
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 27,381 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. The Fortunes - Caroline (Main theme to Radio Caroline) | |||
| 2. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice | |||
| 3. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street | |||
| 4. Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin' | |||
| 5. Small Faces - Hey Girl | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Phil Upchurch Combo - You Can't Sit Down | |||
| 2. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues | |||
| 3. Manfred Mann - If You Gotta Go, Go Now | |||
| 4. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man | |||
| 5. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Mood Mosaic - A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass | |||
| 2. Herman's Hermits - No Milk Today | |||
| 3. Gene Pitney - Backstage | |||
| 4. Peter & Gordon - A World Without Love | |||
| 5. The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Bob Crewe Generation - Music To Watch Girls By | |||
| 2. Paul Jones - I've Been A Bad Bad Boy | |||
| 3. Keith West - Excerpt From A Teenage Opera | |||
| 4. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale | |||
| 5. Donovan - Mellow Yellow | |||
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Customer Reviews
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74 of 74 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
101 Pirate Radio Hits is Virgin Records attempt to cash in on the success of the film The Boat That Rocked. It has competition from the films official soundtrack and also from EMIs offering Rockin' With The Pirates. They are all around a similar price but offer from two to four discs per collection.
This package offers, rather obviously, 101 tracks - most are well known, others are more obscure, and are spread across four discs. Unlike EMIs collection which only draws from the EMI catalogue this one from Virgin gathers material from a far wider range of labels. Unfortunately the audio quality of the tracks is extremely variable and swing from mono to stereo with little programming or thought.
As well as being generally variable the audio quality of some tracks is downright poor, obviously not taken from anything near a first generation master tape. Other tracks suffer from being unusual stereo mixes which, although still the original recording, sound extremely unfamiliar. Another reviewer says he thought some tracks were re recordings but I have to say that, on only one playing through, I think that these are all original recordings - but the poor audio quality of some tracks could easily fool someone into believing that they were not.
Certainly Caroline is the original version, but the audio quality lets it down - anyone who remembers the song thumping out of Radio Caroline's AM transmitter will be disappointed with this sonically unspectacular offering! Also, A Whiter Shade of Pale is the original recording but presented here in the form of the 2006 remastering.
This is a reasonable collection of mid sixties pop, with a few tracks which can be harder to find elsewhere. Most mid sixties pop tunes could be called Pirate Radio Hits, but a few on this collection do stand out more than some others. For around a tenner its not bad value if you don't already have much of the material - otherwise the patchy quality makes me unable to recommend it more highly.
If you do fancy a Pirate CD then I would highly recommend Rockin' With The Pirates. This is a much better collection, compiled by Tim Chacksfield, engineered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road and including an informative booklet by Phil Smee. A couple of quid more, only three discs, but a much better product!
This package offers, rather obviously, 101 tracks - most are well known, others are more obscure, and are spread across four discs. Unlike EMIs collection which only draws from the EMI catalogue this one from Virgin gathers material from a far wider range of labels. Unfortunately the audio quality of the tracks is extremely variable and swing from mono to stereo with little programming or thought.
As well as being generally variable the audio quality of some tracks is downright poor, obviously not taken from anything near a first generation master tape. Other tracks suffer from being unusual stereo mixes which, although still the original recording, sound extremely unfamiliar. Another reviewer says he thought some tracks were re recordings but I have to say that, on only one playing through, I think that these are all original recordings - but the poor audio quality of some tracks could easily fool someone into believing that they were not.
Certainly Caroline is the original version, but the audio quality lets it down - anyone who remembers the song thumping out of Radio Caroline's AM transmitter will be disappointed with this sonically unspectacular offering! Also, A Whiter Shade of Pale is the original recording but presented here in the form of the 2006 remastering.
This is a reasonable collection of mid sixties pop, with a few tracks which can be harder to find elsewhere. Most mid sixties pop tunes could be called Pirate Radio Hits, but a few on this collection do stand out more than some others. For around a tenner its not bad value if you don't already have much of the material - otherwise the patchy quality makes me unable to recommend it more highly.
If you do fancy a Pirate CD then I would highly recommend Rockin' With The Pirates. This is a much better collection, compiled by Tim Chacksfield, engineered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road and including an informative booklet by Phil Smee. A couple of quid more, only three discs, but a much better product!
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
great collection of songs but i have to say that some of them are not the original 60's recordings eg the fortunes caroline procol harum whiter shade of pale i have found 6 up to now just skipping the tracks
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Whilst the majority of tracks on this CD are either top 10 hits or well known, and there's no denying they are all great songs, they can be found on the majority of other 60's compilation CD's. In fact I think a couple of the tracks are pre-pirate too. It's a pity that the compilers could not have tracked down some of the rarer songs that were part of Big L's Fab 40.
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A great record (pun intended) of its time
I was a teenager in the 60s, and I find this one of the best compilations of that golden era of pop. I'm listening to CD2 at the moment and every track is "top notch". Read more
Published 22 days ago by Bill Peter
Pirate radio hits
The best compilation albums are the ones that have a strong concept. This compilation has a strong concept and there are few other compilations with this concept. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Ms. M. Potter
Pirate radio
Disappointing. Bought this on the recommendation of other Amazon buyers who said it was a better purchase than the soundtrack to the film. Disagree - far too many obscure tracks.
Published 22 months ago by L. Wright
101 Pirate Radio Hits
The best CD ive found from the era of pirate radio, 4 cds all good tracks.
different gruops and types of music, just what the stations set up to do. Read more
different gruops and types of music, just what the stations set up to do. Read more
Published 23 months ago by chubby chippy
Brilliant
I was looking to get the The Boat that Rocked CD but then spotted this - for pretty much the same price. Read more
Published on 27 May 2010 by Shah
nostalgic easy listening
If you are fed up with 80's and 90's music and enjoy music from further back, then this is definitely worth buying.
Easy listening, can't help humming along to it! Read more
Easy listening, can't help humming along to it! Read more
Published on 22 May 2010 by Dizzy
Great music
Music from what is generally considered to be one of the best era's of modern music.
Published on 16 May 2010 by kinok
Best of the 'pirate' bunch - and best value.
This is a fine collection of genuine 'pirate' tracks; the pirates played so many 'not quite hits' (often for cash, but lets not go there! Read more
Published on 11 April 2010 by Andrew Heenan
101 Pirate Radio Hits
Recently purchased this C.D. as i have been looking for a really good 60,s C.D. After reading one review who said the recordings are poor i nearly didnt purchase. Read more
Published on 7 April 2010 by Mr. Andrew C. Cole
They were the Best in Radio
This really is an excellent collection of 60's pop music, and because it contains several of those rarities which were played by the pop pirates in the 60's, it is so much better... Read more
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