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| 1. Flowers In The Rain - Kaiser Chiefs | |||
| 2. All Along The Watchtower - The Fratellis | |||
| 3. Cupid - Amy Winehouse | |||
| 4. Lola - Robbie Williams | |||
| 5. Your Song - The Streets | |||
| 6. Betcha By Golly, Wow - Sugababes | |||
| 7. You're So Vain - The Feeling | |||
| 8. Band On The Run - Foo Fighters | |||
| 9. Love Is The Drug - Kylie Minogue | |||
| 10. Let's Stick Together - KT Tunstall | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. You Sexy Thing - Stereophonics | |||
| 2. Fast Car - Mutya Buena | |||
| 3. Lullaby - Editors | |||
| 4. Englishman In New York - Razorlight | |||
| 5. Crazy For You - Groove Armada | |||
| 6. It Must Be Love - Paolo Nutini | |||
| 7. All That She Wants - The Kooks | |||
| 8. All I Need - Mark Ronson | |||
| 9. Stillness In Time - Calvin Harris | |||
| 10. No Diggity - Klaxons | |||
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Radio 1 certainly isn’t short of detractors these days and all but the most vehement Moyles groupies would probably agree that its glory days are now a matter solely for historians. But out of the nostalgia whipped up by their 40th birthday celebrations came one fine idea that could only really have been pulled off with the aid of their unique clout (and, of course, the licence fee)–-40 of today’s biggest acts covering tracks from each of the station’s 40 years in existence, and building on the popular Live Lounge franchise in the process. The Raconteurs’ bash at infamous Peel favourite "Teenage Kicks" has gusto and a genuine southern twist, Lily Allen’s "Don’t Get Me Wrong" is sweet and suits her talk-to-the-hand nonchalance, Editors’ version of The Cure’s "Lullaby" is endearingly brooding, Foo Fighters’ "Band on the Run" is as effective and Foo Fighters-esque as you might expect and Maximo Park’s slick reworking of Justin Timberlake’s "Like I Love You", as strange a premise as that might sound (and thus key to this album’s appeal), just works. On the downside some contributions are inevitably pedestrian; Razorlight’s "Englishman in New York" is anaemic and unfeeling, The Street’s utterly misjudged "Your Song" is room-clearing karaoke playing to none of his strengths and what exactly is the point of The View covering The Libertines anyway!? But all in all it's a unique collection from a station still in a unique, if no longer important, position. --James Berry
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
All the other reviewers are muso miseries....this album is great fun,
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This review is from: Radio 1 - Established 1967 (Audio CD)
How can people say that the bands haven't strayed very far from their own genres?? Hello?? Klaxons doing Blackstreet's 'No Diggity', Stereophonics doing Hot Chocolate's 'You Sexy Thing', The Streets doing Elton John's 'Your Song' - it seems quite a departure to me.
Ok, so some of the songs aren't as great, I could live without hearing KT Tunstall doing 'Let's Stick Together' again, but this album has some great moments. Shame everyone else seems to have lost their sense of humour!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Looks great...........but...................,
By Martyn (Norwich, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Radio 1 - Established 1967 (Audio CD)
Saw the line-up and thought, I must get that CD! There are some great versions on it, but with 40 tracks, 5 great ones isn't anywhere near enough!
I found that most didn't really give it any thought and just plodded through their performance. Razorlight is a prime example, Johnny Borell's vocals are so weak. Stereophonics slowly rambles through and then ends up doing some fast guitar rubbish that don't fit the song! The Fratellis are the best on the album. It's a difficult one to cover and do it justice, but they did with ease. Keiser Chiefs are also great, but then the song they are covering is rather cool anyway! The other moan I have is, who selected these tracks? Why are the biggest bands not covered here? Where are OASIS during the 90's? Where are Duran Duran or Adam & the Ants cover songs for the 80's? If you are torn between this and the Live Lounge CD's, then please get the Live Lounge! So much better, then the artists would have to be, they are playing live to an audience of millions aren't they!
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Wasted opportunity - is this really the best of 40 years?!,
By Cangarwbach (Shrewsbury, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Radio 1 - Established 1967 (Audio CD)
Covers in my opinion are only valid if they fill one of two criteria:-
(a) they do a different take on the original (often possible - I can't stand Joss Stone but Fell In Love With a Boy is so completely different to the White Stripes it's a passable effort) or much more rarely (b) IMPROVE on the original. Sadly next to none of these tracks or artists manage this, it's a mix of conservative choices by bland artists. We get a bunch of bland musicians doing cheesy bland tributes to their heroes. What really is the point of Robbie Williams warbling through Lola or Keane dumbing down the vocal highs of Under Pressure? Foo Fighters taking on Britney, Kylie doing Iron Maiden or even The Wurzels sprucing up the Sugababes - that's what I want to hear; not this pile of treacley nothingness. To me this album stinks of the mediocrity of bland noughties Britpop and cynical backroom execs pumping out more soulless trash. The main thing that this album underlines is how uninspired our allegedly "indie" music scene truly is - there's not a breath of originality or interest.
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