Track Listing

1. She Drives Me Crazy
2. Johnny Come Home
3. Suspicious Minds
4. I'm Not The Man I Used To Be
5. I'm Not Satisfied
6. Blue
7. Funny How Love Is
8. Ever Fallen In Love
9. Don't Look Back
10. On A Promise
11. It's Ok (It's Alright)
12. Pull The Sucker Off
13. Prick Up Your Ears
14. Wade In The Water

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73976 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

It's OK (It's Alright)
The good thing about the Platinum Series is that they form a solid and honest introduction to an artist. The previous reveiwer is right, they are not a complete Greatest Hits - possibly a deliberate record company act to leave a hook dangling for further purchases. What they do is give an open minded listener the chance to make their own mind up about an act.

This compilation contains some material that is very very good - more than enough to off-set the weaker points. The first single Johnny Come Home provided the electric shock of Roland Gift's voice and an unberaringly haunting lament in tune with the 80s. OK, Suspicious Minds wasn't the greatest cover ever, but the edgy reworking of the Buzzcocks' Ever Fallen In Love is up there with the best. As for 'Blue' - possibly the finest and most tuneful protest comment on the Thatcher years you'll ever hear.

This is a good compilation at a budget price. FYC were not a run of the mill 80s band and you won't have anything similar to them in your collection if you don't own the original albums. Give it a go.

Putting it simply. Don't bother.
Missing from this "platinum" collection is good thing, One of their most catchy and fondly remembered tracks. The record company surely meant to rip off purchaser. The band have made some F A B songs, just a pity they couldn't have given us what it says on the tin. Any whipper snappers who will have heard good thing on the Cheverolet Captiva advert currently doing the rounds, would likely look to their greatest hits for this track, rightly expecting the song to be on it.

Disgraceful.

Save your money and purchase their albums instead.

Nothing to rave about...
Personally, I've only heard of FYC because of the immortal She Drives Me Crazy single, one of the most memorable 80s tune. Now I know I didn't miss out on much because this Platinum Collection offers nothing to get excited about. Even the distinctive voice of a certain fellow named Roland Gift becomes tiresome early in this colletion. Songs rely much more on the lyrics because music is incredibly dull, and it all ends with some weird instrumental (Pull the Sucker Off), then a battle between stereo and TV being played too loud (Prick Up Your Ears) and a 50s(?) cover (Wade In the Water). Even when they try to do Elvis (Suspicious Minds), it is a blueprint for how not to cover songs.
To add the final nail to this particular coffin, by some genius plothole, nobody noticed that their second most successful single and their second US #1, Good Thing is missing in action! Also, this "bronze" (at best) collection is not even 50 minutes long, and they also decide not to put their last worthy single-The Flame. It's not like it couldn't fit?! Anway, this collection is almost not worth downloading... You are better off just sticking to the excellent She Drives Me Crazy.