Track Listing

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 Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27102 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-14
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: CD+DVD
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

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.

Customer Reviews

An American Fan - that rare breed of fan - Speaks Up for the Fizz!
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?

Very Best Of (CD + DVD) - Bucks Fizz
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.

give them the respect they deserve!
bucks fizz were the first band I ever liked - first concert I ever saw
(their ''1984'' tour) - it is slightly annoying that they are now remembered
as this ''twee'' band - and for just basically 1 song - or rather 1 ''moment''
in that song (making your mind up)

yes they had pure pop songs (songs of pop brilliance it has to be said)
but look closely at the structure of these songs and you'll see that they
actually had more in common with abba - they may have been singing
'pop' - but this was no steps-a-like band where every song sounds the
same

listen to this cd and you'll hear that many of their songs had a seriousness
and a steely determination running through them:

Run for your life
London town
(THE EPIC) Golden days
I hear talk
You and your heart so blue

hear these songs and you'll realise that bucks fizz WERE a different band
to what you had been led to believe

this is THE band that WITHIN four singles went from "Now those days are gone"
to "London town" - just look at the 'London town' video and see how "twee" this
band was!! - this song - the second single in the trilogy (when we were young/
london town/rules of the game) showed perfectly the groups progression and just
HOW FAR they had progressed in just 2 years - the song - the video - and THAT
totp appearence(!!) - this was the band at their zenith - edgy with an attitude
- Jay's vision for the band was perfect

this is a great cd - only the inclusion of 'Rules of the game' would have made it
any better - I can't imagine how anyone who appreciates good pop music could
not enjoy this cd

...and don't forget to pay close attention to 'London town!!