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17,323 - Total Helpful Votes: 35 of 57
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2 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
What a pleasant surprise to finally find this album on CD and what a disappointment at the same time. Guess, fans of the album will very much appreciate its reissue, but I was hoping for the 1987 single version of Chenko to be included among the extra tracks. Well, it is not. Instead you find the 83 single version here, that has been available on various samplers already (not that much of a surpise given it had been originally released on Cherry Records, before the band changed labels). So hoping for a proper CD version of Chenko 87 is over for the time being and I will treat this album the way the record industry treats the 87 version of Chenko - just forget it. Too bad that the album… Read more
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Quite a few Toyah Best-Of CDs have been released, but whilst all previous compilations concentrated on her hugely successful "Safari Records days", this is the first career-spanning CD from 1979 to 2003, including all the hit singles as well as key album tracks and some rarities.
CD 1 features the obvious top ten singles "It's A Mystery", "I Want To Be Free" and "Thunder In The Mountains" alongside essential album tracks like "Blue Meanings", "Jungles Of Jupiter" and "Angel & Me".
CD 2 moves on from 1985 to 2003 with a few more hit singles like "Don't Fall In Love (I Said)" and "Echo Beach", but mainly album tracks, simply because Toyah did not release any singles from the… Read more
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
This is a new wave classic being re-issued after the first CD release from 1986 was very short-lived and used copies were traded for exorbitant prices on ebay. This reissue contains the original album plus the five-track EP from the same era.
Apart from the outstanding club hits "Big Man Restless" and "The Last Film" the album features new wave/avantgarde pop at its best - dark, jaunty and anthemic.
The sound is fine, so thanks to Wounded Bird Records for a brave and welcome reissue. Less praiseworthy is the selection of songs alongside the album cover. The EP features three original album tracks, so you get them twice on the same disc. It's a missed opportunity, as there are… Read more
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