Track Listing

1. Prince
2. Madness
3. One Step Beyond
4. Mistakes
5. Nutty Theme
6. My Girl
7. Stepping Into Line
8. In The Rain
9. Night Boat To Cairo
10. Deceives The Eye
11. Young And The Old
12. Don't Quote Me On That
13. Baggy Trousers
14. Business
15. Embarrassment
16. Crying Shame
17. Return Of The Los Palmas 7
18. That's The Way You Do It (Aka Odd Jobman)
19. My Girl (1)
20. Swan Lake
21. Grey Day
22. Memories
23. Shut Up
24. Town Wih No Name
25. Never Ask Twice (Aka Airplane)
26. It Must Be Love
27. Shadow On The House
28. Cardiac Arrest
29. In The City
30. House Of Fun
31. Don't Look Back
32. Driving In My Car
33. Terry Wogan Jingle
34. Animal Farm
35. Riding On My Bike
36. Walking With MrWheeze
37. Our House
38. Tomorrow's Just Another Day
39. Madness (2)
40. Wings Of A Dove
41. Behind The Eight Ball
42. One's Second Thoughtlessness
43. Sun And The Rain
44. Fireball XL5
45. Visit To Dracstein Castle
46. Michael Caine
47. If You Think There's Something
48. One Better Day
49. Guns
50. Victoria Gardens
51. Sarah
52. Yesterday's Men
53. All I Knew
54. It Must Be Love (1)
55. Uncle Sam
56. David Hamilton Jingle
57. Inanity Over Christmas
58. Please Don't Go
59. Sweetest Girl
60. Jennie
61. Tears You Can't Hide
62. Call Me
63. Waiting For The Ghost Train
64. One Step Beyond (1)
65. Maybe In Another Life
66. Seven Year Scratch
67. Release Me
68. Carols On 45
69. National Anthem

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38559 in Music
• Released on: 1993-11-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

HEY YOU, DONT BUY THAT, READ THIS !!
WARNING- This entire collection is inlayed with rambling interviews from various sidekicks, hangers ons, friends, aquaintances etc etc. You will maybe want to hear them ONCE. However it is impossible to program them out as they run in and out of the music.

SO Don't buy this as it will sit on your cd rack (looking good!) after one play. A terribly thought up concept!!

People talking over the end of every second song?!
Potentially good compilation of singles, B-sides and rarities, except that:
1) Short interviews have been placed between the songs- mildly interesting first time round, but you won't to hear them every time. So you'll want to program them out (and there are a lot of them). Unfortunately....
2) You *can't* do that because they haven't been put on separate tracks, just stuck onto the end of the songs. So you have to manually skip them using the "next track" button. But...
3) The interviews start before the songs have finished, so you get these people talking *over* the fadeout (and in at least one case over the start of the next song). If you ever taped songs off the radio as a kid, you'll be familiar with this, but I bet you never thought you'd get that on a "proper" CD.

The songs themselves include (obviously) lots of great singles, and some other decent tracks. Since this album is meant to include B-sides (and rarities) too, you can't expect them all to be classics, and they're not; some are pure filler. But that's the nature of the beast, and the good stuff outweighs the bad.

If it wasn't spoiled by the badly-placed interviews, I'd have said that this set was good value for money.

Brilliance ruined
Great selection of songs, some of which I'd never heard, brilliant!!
Then you find someone has dubbed a load of waffle to the end of some the tunes, what an annoyance. Every time you play the CDs you're forced to listen to god knows who talking rubbish.
For example "Shadow on my house" finishes at 3.13 but the track is 4.50, thats 1 and half minutes of someone going on about nothing in particular, everytime you listen to the track.
Thank god for computers. Time to edit the tracks myself and burn new CDs.