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Track Listings
| 1. Making Your Mind Up |
| 2. The Land Of Make Believe |
| 3. Piece Of The Action |
| 4. One Of Those Nights |
| 5. My Camera Never Lies |
| 6. Now Those Days Are Gone |
| 7. If You Can't Stand The Heat |
| 8. Run For Your Life |
| 9. London Town |
| 10. I Hear Talk |
| 11. Talking In Your Sleep |
| 12. Golden Days |
| 13. You And Your Heart So Blue |
| 14. New Beginning |
| 15. Love The One You're With |
| 16. Keep Each Other Warm |
| 17. Heart Of Stone |
| 18. When We Were Young Exclusive DVD - 17 videos including the hits featured |
Product Description
Album Description
CD / DVD `Best Of' featuring all the biggest and well known hits.
The Bonus DVD includes all the video promos of the hits.
About the Artist
The winners of the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest Bucks Fizz were destined for a pop career that would span 11 top 20 hits and 3 number 1's.
The victory set them up for a career that was to be as successful as any British Eurovision winner before, or since. They went on to become one of the most popular bands of the 80's with a string of hit singles and albums.
"Making Your Mind Up" was a Number One Hit for the group in nine different countries and received Gold Disc status in four countries. This was promptly followed by a further two Top 20 hits in the UK, "Piece Of The Action" and "One Of Those Nights" and a self titled album which went Gold in the UK and Platinum in Australia. Their next single released in November 1981, "The Land Of Make Believe" went Gold before Christmas of that year and went on to become one of their most popular songs, reaching Number One in three countries and winning the Ampex Golden Reel Award for One Million sales.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
At long last a CD of all the Bucks Fizz hits and now I can retire my worn out old VHS Video Collection as it comes with a 17 track DVD.
Bucks Fizz are one of my favourite bands and ever since winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 they remain regular a on my CD Player. Good classic pop music.
I have all the remastered CD's recently released by BMG and Spectrum in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Check out Amazon UK to get these classic 80's albums all with extra tracks and remixes as well as a Lost Masters 2CD set.
Bucks Fizz are one of my favourite bands and ever since winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 they remain regular a on my CD Player. Good classic pop music.
I have all the remastered CD's recently released by BMG and Spectrum in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Check out Amazon UK to get these classic 80's albums all with extra tracks and remixes as well as a Lost Masters 2CD set.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Well, let's get all the biases out of the way...yes, they started with the pop cheese of Eurovision's "Making Your Mind Up," they offered little in the way of their own instrumentation, Jay sometimes overemphasized lyrics given to her in a dramatic and corny way, and they didn't write the vast majority of their songs. Those issues aside, you couldn't find a new wave or pop band that had such intricately layered harmonies, music, and drum fills. Upon hearing "Land of Make Believe" and "Run For Your Life" for the first time in a NYC club, I was astounded by the spatial aspects of the cascading drums featured in both, not to mention those heavenly vocals and clever use of echo. I had to get everything they released on import, but it was well worth the trouble and I could not for the life of me understand how the two compilation LP's that eventually came out here (both titled "Bucks Fizz" but on dfferent labels) failed to do anything at the retail or radio level. Clubs picked up a little on "Make Believe" as a late night song, but that was about it for play here until "I Hear Talk" came along. I can certify that I was the first DJ in NYC to play "I Hear Talk" as an LP track the minute I got my hands on the import LP and extended it using two copies of the album. Everything went through the roof at the bar I played at (Uncle Charlie's) when the remix 12" came out and customers regularly ran up the booth to ask "where can I get that unbelievable song?!". It remained the most popular track I ever played in my 12 years of spinning there, up against giant, domestically released dance hits, and gained massive acceptance at the Saint and on Fire Island. To this day, people still ask about it whenever and wherever I play it. "Blue" followed in its wake and was also a sizable club hit, but still no single release in the US was forthcoming for either of those two tracks. Sadly, the LP's sank without a trace. By this time, it was just about over for the Fizz in their native UK as each single released generally performed worse on the charts than the one before, ending with the brilliant "Heart of Stone". But boy did they develop on "I Hear Talk" and "New Beginning," the title track of which also had a big club following. The videos were campy to be sure, but I had to have the VHS so I could transfer it to NTSC and the club patrons I played for could get a look at who sang "I Hear Talk". To have all this now in one collection is brilliant. While Tight Fit perhaps came closest to sounding like Abba proper, the Fizz took everything from the Abba concept and spinned it off in their own unique direction albeit with the vision of Hill and Martin. This release is great stuff at a great price. How about a second go around with the original four?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Forget Steps, move over S Club! These guys are the orignal UK boy / girl band and boy they had some girly songs! But it worked - great energy, mostly well written and well, sadly missed.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Bucks Fizz CD Review
I always had a guilty pleasure in listening to Bucks Fizz in the 80's, so I wanted to buy a 'best of' CD. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. C. Palmer
Great blast from the past
a fun, memorable blast of 80s pop. The DVD is a great addition - more CDs should come with the DVD!
Published 18 months ago by R. Macindoe
Bucks Fizzzzzzzz
Great - everything fine - arrived promptly and in good condition - just what the Doc ordered
Published 21 months ago by Robin
Excellent retrospective for the casual buyer
It does what it says on the package!
It's the bands greatest hits and nothing more, but if you want to dig deeper into this much maligned groups history, you won't be... Read more
It's the bands greatest hits and nothing more, but if you want to dig deeper into this much maligned groups history, you won't be... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2009 by Brit HorrorHound
The Very Best of Bucks Fizz
As A Huge fan of the Fizz in the 80's & 90's I recently went along to a gig that included Mike, Cheryl & Jay in the line up. Read more
Published on 28 July 2009 by Dee
Only Bucks Fizz video collection on DVD
This collection unites not less than 17 promotional videos of Bucks Fizz' greatest hits for the first time on DVD in very good quality for a price that is - in my opinion - a... Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2009 by R. Portmann
Almost great compilation of one of the Eighties best pop acts
Make no mistake - Bucks Fizz made some of the best pop music of the Eighties. So why only the three stars?
Well... Read more
Well... Read more
Published on 25 April 2008 by Steven Roberts
Bucks Fizz the very best of
This CD & DVD takes me back to the days of my childhood and Bucks Fizz was one of the first albums that I ever got as a child at the time Bucks Fizz where new & exciting fresh... Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2007 by Mrs. J. Edson
One star less...
...for not including Rules of the Game!! It's criminal! Would have been perfect otherwise.
Published on 1 Jun 2007 by M. G P SCOTT
not a cava to be seen!
the ultimate set..features all the main singles only two missing are "rules of the game" and "magical"..."rules" really should be on here!!! Read more
Published on 25 May 2007 by Mr. Nathan Armstrong
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