The Best of Kirsty MacColl
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Artist: Kirsty MacColl
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 094633379527
EAN: 0094633379527
ASIN: B0009WXGDM
Release Date: 2005-08-04 |
The Best of Kirsty MacColl
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Tracks:
- They Don't Know
- There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
- Terry
- New England
- He's on the Beach
- Don't Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim!
- Fairytale of New York - Kirsty MacColl, The Pogues
- Free World
- Innocence [Single Remix]
- Days
- Still Life
- Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of Those Things - Kirsty MacColl, The Pogues
- Walking Down Madison
- My Affair
- Soho Square
- Titanic Days [Single Edit]
- As Long as You Hold Me [From Mad Love]
- Perfect Day
- In These Shoes?
- England 2 Columbia 0
- Sun on the Water
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Album Details
Following the Success of the Triple CD and Dvd Anthologies 'from Croydon to Cuba', There Has Never Been a Better Time to Release a Brand New 'best Of' Kirsty Maccoll Album.
Customer Reviews:
Wow.......2005-11-03
My best friend bought me this album for my 16th birthday, and I think it was one of the best presents I've ever had. My parents must be sick of me playing this album over and over again.
I grew up listening to Kirsty Maccoll, because my mum is a fan, but we never had any albums of hers.
I remember what I was doing when I heard that Kirsty Maccoll had died, just like I can remember what lesson I was in when the Twin Towers fell.
If you are new to Kirsty Maccoll I suggest you buy this album before any of the others because you get a taster of her music, which was forever-changing, from all of her albums.
Vastly under-rated British singer .......2005-08-03
Kirsty was a daughter of the great folk singer Ewan MacColl and his influence inevitably shows in her music, but she was very much of her time. Kirsty was always keen to experiment and the results were not always brilliant, but the best of her music is to be found on this outstanding collection. Apart from experimentation, Kirsty's success was limited by her desire to lead life to the full and raise a family as well. She died in a high-speed boating accident while still in her early forties.
The best earlier compilation of Kirsty's music, Galore, contains four tracks (You just haven't earned it yet baby, Angel, Can't stop killing you, Caroline) that are omitted from this set, but seven other tracks not on Galore can be found here (Terry, Still life, Soho Square, As long as you hold me, In these shoes, England 2 Colombia 0 and Sun on the water). Overall, there's not much to choose between these two outstanding compilations although this new one has more tracks and covers her whole career including two tracks from her final album, Tropical brainstorm.
The final track (Sun on the water) first appeared as a demo on the triple CD Croydon to Cuba anthology but has been re-mixed for release as a single and it is that version that you will find here. While it is a great summer song reflecting much fun and happiness, it is difficult to hear Kirsty sing this song without remembering that she died while in the water on a hot, sunny day.
Most of the songs on this collection were written by Kirsty, often but not always on her own, including They don't know (a song which provided Tracey Ullman with her first hit), There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis, He's on the beach, Free world, Don't come the cowboy with me Sonny Jim (a song covered by Kelly Willis on her Easy album) and Walking down Madison.
Kirsty was also well capable of recording distinctive covers of other people's songs. Their diverse sources show that Kirsty was not a lady that anybody could typecast. They include A new England (Billy Bragg), Miss Otis Regrets (Cole Porter - one of two duets with Irish rockers The Pogues), Days (The Kinks) and Perfect Day (Lou Reed - a duet with Evan Dando of the Lemonheads).
Kirsty's biggest UK hit was the other duet with the Pogues - a Christmas song titled Fairytale of New York. It can be found on several British Christmas compilations and is not really typical of Kirsty's music. I would describe Kirsty's music as sixties pop rock updated for the eighties with a little folk and country added into the mix.
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- Ram ~ Paul & Linda McCartney
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- Butterfly ~ Hollies
- Erasers on Pencils ~ Ceili Rain
- Transmissions of All the Goodbyes ~ Lilium
- Indiscreet/Tough It Out ~ FM
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The In Crowd ~ Ramsey Lewis
Rocket Science ~ Tribal Tech
Brilliant Corners ~ Bennie Wallace w, Y. Yamashita
The Main Ingredient ~ Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Porgy & Bess ~ George Mraz, Roland Hanna
Place for Lovers ~ Koelner Saxophon Mafia
Es Rappelt Im Karton ~ Helge Schneider
Miyako Harumi Zenkyokushu Karekinada ~ Harumi Miyako
Sincèrement ~ Chiens De Paille
Yasashiku Akaruku ~ Brian