Track Listing

1. Water On Glass
2. Our Town
3. Everything We Know
4. Young Heroes
5. Kids In America
6. Chequered Love
7. 26580
8. You'll Never Be So Wrong
9. Falling Out
10. Tuning In Tuning On
11. Shane
12. Boys
13. Water On Glass

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37053 in Music
• Released on: 2009-04-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

thereviewers
When this album was released in 1981, it seemed Kim Wilde was the new Debbie Harry. Look at the album sleeve; black background with a white font across the top. Just glance at the sleeves of 'Plastic Letters', or 'Blondie' from a few years back to prove it.

A big hit with Kids in America launched this album reaching no.2 in the UK, followed by Chequered Love. Water On Glass was the third single by which point she was established as a bright new star.

Don't be fooled by the three singles though. The rest of album nods to a range of styles including light ska in Everything We Know. Kim's albums always had a range with could be surprisingly less commercial than you'd imagine. You'll Never Be So Wrong being an example, a remorseful song some distance away from the thrill of the singles.

Almost 30 years on this album still sounds fun. It's bright, youthful, and if you appreciate the synth sound of Ricky Wilde, this is the where it kicked off.

If you are interested in Kim Wilde this is a great place to start. Wilde wasn't all about the catchy hits, and here reveals a little of the other, slightly darker side of Kim balanced well beside those classic early hits.

Kim Wilde

Young Heroes
There are some records that just encapsulate a time in your life so much, and this is one of them. If you are reading this review, it is most probable that you know this album, so to describe it would be pretty pointless, so I will just say how it makes me feel to hear this album again.

Ever walked down a street and seen someone you haven't seen for years? Well that is how I felt on Sunday when I saw that this album had been re-released. I have the vinyl upstairs and also the first two singles still, but I would be lying if I said I had played them in the last 25 years. So seeing this re-release was was really like seeing an old friend, a friend I had long lost contact with. Looking at the tracklist was like a trip back in time. Back in the summer of 1981 this was the record of my school holiday, I played it all the time, no doubt that record upstairs would tell the tales of all the times I played it, in the form of clicks and pops and worn out grooves. I even had my very own Kim Wilde look-a-like who lived across the street from me, so all these memories are flooding back.

Great to see the non-album B-sides are here, as I loved them as much as the album tracks, and lovely to see the single mix of Water on Glass too, a single I had, but sadly sold to make way for some other single back in the early 80s. That is how it was back then, music moved so fast, and yesterdays hits were sadly overtaken by the next big thing. I always kept that album though, such a great cover. There was no doubt who the star was, the boys in the shade, very much akin to the early Blondie albums, which at that time, I had never heard.

This remaster sounds really good, I have not heard any past cds of this so it is hard to compare, and so many new remasters are quite often not as good as the older cds, as they master them so loud. However, it sounds just like I remember it, and that is what counts. Amazing just how many of the lyrics that I remember, even without looking at the booklet. A booklet that is very well produced by the way, with lyrics to all the songs, even the B sides (the lyrics weren't printed on the original album) and notations about the songs, plus covers of the various singles from around the world.

If you were there back in 1981, get this cd and relive a little bit of your youth, and if you weren't, get it anyway, Kim never sounded quite this good again, and this is a perfect debut album.

REISSUE HEAVEN
As a Kim Wilde fan since the beginning, you have to give Cherry Pop records 11/10 for this BRILLIANT reissue!!!! Not only inclusion of the non-album "b" sides but the booklet with pictures and lyrics and original 80s comments from Kim about the tracks made me punch the air!!! The reissue of Select is JUST as good and I have already put myself down for the 3rd album Catch As Catch Can which is getting the same treatment!!!!

I just really hope the rest of Kim's back catalogue is going to get the same treatment!!!!