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Girls Are Always Right: the Stiff Years
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Track Listing
- Yesterday's love
- Second choice
- Playing Bogart
- Nice girls
- Turning up the heat
- Romance
- Girls are always right
- Name of the game (live)
- Walking on the night shift (live)
- Growing up (studio version)
- Trouble with love
- Open fire
- As lovers do
- Walking in chains
- Dimming of the day
- To be a king
- Eastern promise
- Wheels in motion
- Snap shot
- Follow that car (studio version)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #125658 in Music
- Released on: 2002-06-24
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Cool they weren't, but...
Unlike Costello, Jackson and the like, this band looked out of place, and musically they did go off the boil a bit as time went on. But the first two thirds of this compilation -- specifically, tracks 1 to 14 excluding the Abba song -- merits five stars on its own. It's some of the best pop-rock ever: great guitar, original lyrical twists on much-visited themes, and tunes that will install themselves in your brain and resist all attempts to dislodge them (though why you should wish to do so I cannot imagine).
Perfect Compilation
Why oh why were Any Trouble not big in the early 80's. They had all the talent of Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson and their ilk and some strong pop songs with great new wave tunes. Despite 4 excellent studio albums (of which only 2 have been made available on CD - shame Stiff and EMI) they dies although leader and songwriter Clive Gregson had a successful solo career on the folk circuit.
This CD collates a large proportion of the first 2 stiff albums with some rarer B sides and live tracks (including an amazingly surprising Abba cover). This is everything they were about and sounds as fresh in the 21st century as it did 20+ years ago.
It is a bargain and should be in any self- respecting music lover's collection. Or maybe I am biased?
