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This greatest hits package celebrates 30 years since the release of Visage's seminal electropop standard "Fade to Grey", and features remixes of "Fade To Grey" by Lee Mortimer and Michael Gray of The Weekend and Borderline fame, alongside the 80s legends' complete chart topping hit singles, as well as some of the classic and highly sought after dance remixes.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I was very much looking forward to this release because the product was advertised as including the 7" version of Night Train, one of my favourite records of all time. My heart sank tonight when I jumped straight to track 8, where the 7" mix should be, only to find that it's an edited LP mix, yet again. This has happened on every Visage compilation to date. I simply do not understand why it is so difficult to include the version that was actually a hit on a release. It was, after all, their 3rd biggest hit single, reaching number 12. Thank God the 12" mix at least made it on to CD on 12/80s Volume 2 a few years ago.
That disappointment aside, the artwork, although not particularly revealing, is attractive enough, and the sound isn't too bad either. It is good to get the 12" mix of Visage on CD finally, although The Damned Don't Cry isn't the 12" version as listed, instead it's the LP mix.
There's a complete overload of Fade To Grey mixes - 7" mix, Original 12" Mix, plus two new mixes. Niether can hold a candle to the original, although the Michael Gray Mix borrows quite a bit from the original tapes, thus making it very listenable. I can see why it did so well in the club charts recently.
This *should* have been the definitive Visage collection, but instead is no better or worse than Damned Don't Cry or their 80s Best Of, which is a real shame as there's not likely to be a market for another collection any time soon.
That disappointment aside, the artwork, although not particularly revealing, is attractive enough, and the sound isn't too bad either. It is good to get the 12" mix of Visage on CD finally, although The Damned Don't Cry isn't the 12" version as listed, instead it's the LP mix.
There's a complete overload of Fade To Grey mixes - 7" mix, Original 12" Mix, plus two new mixes. Niether can hold a candle to the original, although the Michael Gray Mix borrows quite a bit from the original tapes, thus making it very listenable. I can see why it did so well in the club charts recently.
This *should* have been the definitive Visage collection, but instead is no better or worse than Damned Don't Cry or their 80s Best Of, which is a real shame as there's not likely to be a market for another collection any time soon.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A long over-due, and very welcome, return to CD for Visage, but again far from a definitive set.
I have to agree about missing out Beat Boy - the 7" edit would easily have fitted with removing anything here - after all, Tar was never a hit, and the album remix of that is present here.
Most of the tracks sound the best they ever have, except those from The Anvil album itself - I'm beginning to wonder if there's an issue with the availabilty of the original masters.
The obvious mistakes have already been pointed out, such as that LP edit of Night Train instead of the 7" remix, again. I'm suspecting this could well have been the single version until Rusty brought in John Luongo to do that excellent remix after Midge had left the group.
It's great to have some of early 12"s in one place at last, although I'm hanging onto 2000's The Damned Don't Cry compilation for the Frequency 7 and We Move 12"s, but the CD as a whole is neither a complete album of remixes or a complete singles set either. Still, it is nice to get the full 1983 mix of In the Year 2525 again - the earlier The Damned Don't Cry CD actually used the 1979 demo, taking it directly from the 1983 long-play cassette version of the original vinyl fade To Grey - The Singles Collection, which used different versions of many of the songs on the cassette. It was also a segued, continuous program, hence the fade in of The Anvil as the song played out.
Anyway, full marks for the nicely designed booklet, although a few minor factual errors have crept in to the text. That coupled with the mistakes on the tracks used here is why I couldn't give the album five stars either.
It's the perfect time to have released this, so I hope it sells well, if only so that their original albums can be expanded and re-mastered properly at last. Visage was a fun band and deserve to have their work represented on CD as well as most of their contemporaries now have, such as the exemplary Ultravox re-masters of late, for instance. Buy it today!
I have to agree about missing out Beat Boy - the 7" edit would easily have fitted with removing anything here - after all, Tar was never a hit, and the album remix of that is present here.
Most of the tracks sound the best they ever have, except those from The Anvil album itself - I'm beginning to wonder if there's an issue with the availabilty of the original masters.
The obvious mistakes have already been pointed out, such as that LP edit of Night Train instead of the 7" remix, again. I'm suspecting this could well have been the single version until Rusty brought in John Luongo to do that excellent remix after Midge had left the group.
It's great to have some of early 12"s in one place at last, although I'm hanging onto 2000's The Damned Don't Cry compilation for the Frequency 7 and We Move 12"s, but the CD as a whole is neither a complete album of remixes or a complete singles set either. Still, it is nice to get the full 1983 mix of In the Year 2525 again - the earlier The Damned Don't Cry CD actually used the 1979 demo, taking it directly from the 1983 long-play cassette version of the original vinyl fade To Grey - The Singles Collection, which used different versions of many of the songs on the cassette. It was also a segued, continuous program, hence the fade in of The Anvil as the song played out.
Anyway, full marks for the nicely designed booklet, although a few minor factual errors have crept in to the text. That coupled with the mistakes on the tracks used here is why I couldn't give the album five stars either.
It's the perfect time to have released this, so I hope it sells well, if only so that their original albums can be expanded and re-mastered properly at last. Visage was a fun band and deserve to have their work represented on CD as well as most of their contemporaries now have, such as the exemplary Ultravox re-masters of late, for instance. Buy it today!
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Firstly, so as not to detract from the quality of what is 5 star material on this welcome Polydor/Universal compilation celebrating 30yrs of Visage (effectively), here are the positives.
You get nearly 80 minutes of material, 65 of which is original pure class. There are also two 2009 remixes, the Michael Gray opener being the most successful, and arguably far superior to the the Bassheads 1993 efforts, as it keeps more of the original feel. The Lee Mortimer mix is not so sympathetic, and is not a patch on the original! You get all the crucial hits, some in extended glory, and some well-compiled liner notes and images. The 12" original mix here, of seminal "Fade To Grey", is the 6.40 long version, and "In The Year 2525" doesn't fade out into "The Anvil", so they got that right!
All this makes this an essential purchase, but as with all Visage compilations, including the original Singles Collection (which I still have on vinyl, plus the dance mix promo), there are sadly some mistakes...
...firstly the mix of "Night Train" is not the listed Luongo mix (yet again), but the album mix. Although I like Mr Ure's version just as much it would've been the perfect opportunity to include John's revamp, whether in 7" or 12" form. Then the initial excitement of seeing so many "original 12" dance mixes" was tempered by discovering "Damned Don't Cry" is also the album mix. Inexcusable, dear compiler! However the good news is the rest of the 12" mixes listed (including "Pleasure Boys") are all present and correct.
"Der Amboss" rears its head again, and sounds like it may be mastered from vinyl, as the spikey sequencer lines sometimes distort quite a bit.
The only song exclusion is "Beat Boy", which is a bit of a shame as the 7" edit is quite hard to come by on CD (unlike the album and Dance versions). I would've preferred that in place of Mortimer 2009 FTG remix personally, but that's just me!
I really wanted to give this 5 stars, and the music on this generously full CD deserves them, as does the artwork, but the slightly annoying slip-ups drop a star for me.
Steve, Midge, Rusty, Billy and the crew were a pivotal force at the time, combining outrageous imagery and artiness with some solid atmospheric electro-pop of its era. A lot of today's currently trendy (and mostly female) chart acts owe them a lot.
So all fans of 80's electro music, and the likes of Lady Gaga, should buy it anyway....and enjoy!
You get nearly 80 minutes of material, 65 of which is original pure class. There are also two 2009 remixes, the Michael Gray opener being the most successful, and arguably far superior to the the Bassheads 1993 efforts, as it keeps more of the original feel. The Lee Mortimer mix is not so sympathetic, and is not a patch on the original! You get all the crucial hits, some in extended glory, and some well-compiled liner notes and images. The 12" original mix here, of seminal "Fade To Grey", is the 6.40 long version, and "In The Year 2525" doesn't fade out into "The Anvil", so they got that right!
All this makes this an essential purchase, but as with all Visage compilations, including the original Singles Collection (which I still have on vinyl, plus the dance mix promo), there are sadly some mistakes...
...firstly the mix of "Night Train" is not the listed Luongo mix (yet again), but the album mix. Although I like Mr Ure's version just as much it would've been the perfect opportunity to include John's revamp, whether in 7" or 12" form. Then the initial excitement of seeing so many "original 12" dance mixes" was tempered by discovering "Damned Don't Cry" is also the album mix. Inexcusable, dear compiler! However the good news is the rest of the 12" mixes listed (including "Pleasure Boys") are all present and correct.
"Der Amboss" rears its head again, and sounds like it may be mastered from vinyl, as the spikey sequencer lines sometimes distort quite a bit.
The only song exclusion is "Beat Boy", which is a bit of a shame as the 7" edit is quite hard to come by on CD (unlike the album and Dance versions). I would've preferred that in place of Mortimer 2009 FTG remix personally, but that's just me!
I really wanted to give this 5 stars, and the music on this generously full CD deserves them, as does the artwork, but the slightly annoying slip-ups drop a star for me.
Steve, Midge, Rusty, Billy and the crew were a pivotal force at the time, combining outrageous imagery and artiness with some solid atmospheric electro-pop of its era. A lot of today's currently trendy (and mostly female) chart acts owe them a lot.
So all fans of 80's electro music, and the likes of Lady Gaga, should buy it anyway....and enjoy!
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sound quality
my biggest complain with this new Visage compilation is the sound quality.
Clearly, the loudness war have hitten the people who have made this compilation and it's a... Read more
Clearly, the loudness war have hitten the people who have made this compilation and it's a... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Arnaud De Bonald
ARE FOUR VERSIONS OF FADE TO GREY ENTIRELY NECESSARY?
Here is a compilation which has been released to hook in a new generation, with new remixes of their biggest hit, 'Fade To Grey'. Read more
Published 11 months ago by J. McCarraher
More quality 80's music.
Despite the fact that the tracklist has some silly mistakes on it (as have all the Visage collection CD's it would appear) it is still a great CD. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Static
The Definitive Mix of "Fade to Grey" Available on CD - at Last
Not a review, but just a note to say that anyone looking for the staggeringly good 6.43 version will find it here (the one with the percussive section at the end). Read more
Published 15 months ago by Rocksteady Eddie
good memories
an excellent look back on the days of pure new romantics,
a great collection for old and new fans
a great collection for old and new fans
Published 17 months ago by Mr. C. R. Wordley
incorrect
Visage The Face remix CD - The tracklisting is incorrect as it was on the Best of Visage Damned Don't Cry CD.
Published on 25 Mar 2010 by G. ASLETT
Remastered WAY TOO LOUD and distorted
I'm sick and tired of buying these "remastered" CD's, only to find they are mastered way too loudly, compressing the audio. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2010 by Scott Davies
2 brand new Fade To Grey remixes!
Looks like a great new compilation... including 2 brand new remixes of Fade to Grey, so I am very, very excited as it is one of my all time favourite songs ever (and I still... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2010 by Ricky Tinsel
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