Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Love Meeting Love
2. (Flying On The) Wings of Love
3. Love Games
4. Turn It On
5. Starchild
6. Are You Hearing (What I Hear)?
7. Weave Your Spell
8. The Chinese Way
9. Out of SIght, Out Of Mind
10. The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)
11. Micro-Kid
12. Hot Water
13. The Chant Has Begun
14. Something About You
15. Leaving Me Now

Disc 2:

1. Lessons In Love
2. Running In The Family
3. To Be With You Again
4. It's Over
5. Children Say
6. Heaven In My Hands
7. Take A Look
8. Tracie
9. Take Care Of Yourself
10. Guaranteed
11. Overtime
12. Forever Now
13. I Feel Free
14. Bitter Moon

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27093 in Music
• Released on: 2002-10-14
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 145 minutes

Customer Reviews

Mark and the boys strut their funky stuff
Well being a modest 20 years of age, how could i possibly give a review when level 42 formed when i was twinkle in my mummies eye??
Well having stumbled across the "running in the family" album in the loft a few years back i decided to play it and i fell in love with the jazz, funkk, rock fusions made by this group. Its such a shame that there best selling album turned out to be the last of of the orignal quartet.
This albums displays the band talent to fuse different geners and make it sound quite good!!! (flying on the) wings of love has to be the song that gave the inspiration for the soundrack to the arcade classic "out run" (sega 86), Love games stamped Level 42 authority in music back in '81 and then rolled of track like, Starchild, The chinese way and miroc kid. then '84 was the year where i belive that they polished their best track to date, The "long" version of Hot Water. 2 more albums followed and the ever so meaningful to be with you again and its over were products of the multi platiumn album "running in the family" after that it was all a bit on and off, which ulimatly made the group dispand in '94. A shame but highly infulental band in the 80's and with a tour this year, let the good times roll!!!

LEVEL 42 AT THEIR LEVEL BEST!
I have recently got into Level 42 and now I just can't get enough of the boys from the Isle Of Wight. The boys fusion of jazz and funk has paved the way for exciting, toe-tapping instrumental and vocal tracks.

This album captures all their greatest hits and more, the earlier tracks are just as good if not better than the more commercial tracks of their later days, a good example is Love Games.

The best tracks on the album are: Micro Kid, The Chinese Way (the busiest bass line ever!) Hot Water (Level 42 at their most funky and energetic), Something About You (their biggest hit), Lessons In Love, Running In The Family & Heaven In My Hands.
Each track is polished, extremely well produced and now much brighter and tighter thanks to the digital remastering of each track.

If you are a fan of them, don't hesitate to buy this album, and even if you're not, give it a try, you may become a convert, I certaintly have!

A decent retrospective of the Lev's finally arrives
Level 42 were perhaps the 1980's music scene incarnate, their music synonymous with trendy young executives/wannabe boy racers cruising the boulevards of Milton Keynes and Brentwood in their Escort XR3i's complete with furry dice, 'Kev & Shaz' windscreen banners and taped copies of the Lev's 'World Machine' album pounding on their Goodman's car stereos.

The Ultimate Collection is seemingly just that, the first truly complete and chronological correct retropective compilation of the Isle of Wight's finest son's wide body of work, certainly bettering the 'Level Best' and 'The Very Best of Level 42' collections of years past. That said, much of what follows 1985's World Machine singles are pretty much surplus to requirements (serving only as pleasant wine bar/elevator background music), aside from perhaps It's Over and Heaven In Your Hands. The CD also benefits from the inclusion of the best of the Levs earliest material from 1980-1981 which was not present on earlier collections,and thankfully there are no needless and annoying remixes. The gradual winding-down of the band after 1990 is pretty audible here, with no real standout tracks on offer towards the final third and thus it is essentially the first half of this collection which is ultimately more rewarding, with some brilliant jazz-funk numbers and the best of the pop singles up to 1985. In fact after 1989, much of their output was pretty dismal.

Buy this in combination with their superb live outing, 1984's 'A Physical Prescence', and this will be all you need.