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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Heaven!, 12 Jul 2009
What the Amazon listing doesn't tell you and it ought to, is that the second disc is a DVD, and the man reason for buying this Special Edition of Belinda Carlisle's best selling solo album.
If you are a fan of Belinda you probably already have this CD in your collection and in all honesty there isn't a great deal of difference to the quality of sound on this re-mastered edition. However, the package is worth owning for the extras that make this a Special Edition.
There are five remixes of the hit singles taken from this album, by the likes of Shep Pettibone and William Orbit, originally available as 12 inch singles, or "b" sides. Plus the DVD, which was previously only available as a VHS tape. This is a live performance in Philadelphia from May 1988 from the Good Heavens! tour. The playing time is 60 minutes and includes Belinda performing all the hits from the album and several Go-Go's hits as well. Definitely worth buying this package for, as the quality is so much better than the VHS tape, if you still own it.
The whole high-quality package comes in a lovely gatefold sleeve.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy it just for the DVD, 19 Jul 2009
As said in another review disc two is a superb DVD concert that previously could only be found on old VHS. This live concert is far superior to her Runaway Live DVD which was recorded a couple of years later - although that's worth having too. Belinda's voice was really superb in this period and the backing band were very tight. It's worth buying just for 'I Get Weak' alone - hit the volume and you'll see what I mean.
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1 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Heaven on Earth is the preserve and function of Kim Wilde albums!, 24 Jul 2009
Let's get off the bat here-the Go-Gos were entirely useless and solo-wise she had to happen. The woman-in common with most American singers is seriously underwhelming-the songs are basic, over-long, with icky girlie-group lyrics she can't even write herself. The voice is equally overdone at times, straining here, howling there. On good songs like 'Summer Rain' and 'Do You Feel Like I Feel' the overdone approach works (though neither of these songs are here), but an album worth of so-so material is just that. Yes 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth' and 'Circle In The Sand'are fine enough songs but the edited single versions of her songs are much better and don't outstay their welcome and are longer than a Kim Wilde album track anyway. Sickly items like 'World Without You'(UK women would never sing such sickly banalities!)and the wearisome 'I Get Weak'should NEVER be over 4 minutes-even for an album and the turgid, tuneless catawauling puke of the appauling 'Love Never Dies' (so bad it wasn't even put on copmilations thank God!)should never have been even considered as a warm-up to setting out an average album-filler.
Surprisingly here it's one of the few times she gets luckier with album tracks and the crashing crescendo 'Fool For Love' (sickly title is actually at odds with the song for once!) and the banshee blast of threat that becomes 'Should I Let You In' are so damned good THEY should have been singles over the weak as water 'World Without You' and 'I Get Weak'. Even a cover of 'I Feel Free' works a treat and comes across as quite eerie. But that doesn't save an average album from an average singer. She is a singles act only and even then a not entirely fizzing one. People went mad for this in 1988 but then we always did feel sorry for American acts and forgot we have tonnes better. The woman does love Crowded House-admirable but no way in hell she could even try for that kind of approach. Go for Carlisle's compilations-she is not an album person and apart from one more album track from 1991 called 'You're Nothing Without Me' and is a belter and should have been released too, she is Bananarama forgettable. Nowhere near as bad as male rubbish-'group' Spandau Ballet though and of course not offensive like Madonna. Still, America does have a handful of winning female greats-Pretenders, Stevie Nicks's, 'Til Tuesday, Pat Benatar, Voice Of The Beehive, Grace Jones and Tori Amos and of course Cyndi Lauper-Carlisle is not one of these people, whether they're more a single act or album one. Even Kylie Minogue can manage one album-2002's 'Fever'.
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