Track Listing

1. Blind Among The Flowers
2. I Only Want To Be With You
3. Useless Duration Of Time
4. Ain't No Room
5. Save Me
6. Fool's Paradise
7. So Good To Be Back Home Again
8. It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
9. Loneliest Man In The World
10. In The Morning (When The Madness Has Faded)
11. All Life's Tragedies
12. Everywhere You Look
13. Deadly Kiss
14. Don't Say I Told You So
15. From The Middle Room
16. Nothin' To Do
17. One Step Nearer The Edge
18. Angels And Demons
19. So You Want To Go Away Now
20. Strange Sky

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29176 in Music
• Released on: 1997-09-27
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

'A Band Of Only Occasional Brilliance'
Back in 1979 I fell in love with The Tourists single 'The Loneliest Man In The World' and even now think it should have been a much bigger hit than it was. A great song, it has great lyrics, punch and melancholy in abundance. Problem is, as I found out back in those days when I bought their debut album, not many of the bands other songs come even close to that quality. Sure, there are other great tracks on this cd (first single ' Blind Among The Flowers', 'All Life's Tragedies' and the other 'hits') but they are surrounded by a plethora of very mediocre 'guitar, bass and drums rock' that lacks punch direction or melody and simply fails to stand out from the crowd. Annie Lennox's voice sounds best here when she is given lead vocals and the tracks are built around her. On other tracks she simply sounds 'ghostly' and on most of the tracks where lead vocals are shared the band sound weak and lifeless. I can't say that the sound quality is overly good on this collection so that doesn't help much either. Fans of the band will however be delighted that this cd includes the two tracks from the free single given away with the groups last album 'Luminous Basement' namely "From The Middle Room' (an experimental instrumental) and 'Strange Sky'. If you don't own any of the groups hits (especially T L M I T W) then I wouldn't put you off this but for me it's a 5 out of 10 release.

Suck it and see
Lots of stuff you might only listen to once, but worth every penny for "Blind among the flowers"; "So good to be back home again" and of course "I only wanna be with you".
Please play the previews and judge for yourself.

Haven't you bought this CD yet?
There are several songs (mainly the early stuff) that I can't say that I remember, but in the main the songs on the CD are brilliant and I wish that there was more music being made today of this quality.

If you liked The Stranglers, The Who or Roxy Music, you'll find a few songs that have a similar sound - and plenty that don't.

If you liked All About Eve, this CD will show you where AAE got their basic direction.

If you were / are a fan of the Eurythmics, then you won't be disappointed with this CD; Annie's and Dave's talents are just as apparent as in the best that they have done since.

BUY THIS CD!