We Love the Pirates

We Love the Pirates Artist: Various Artists
Label: Castle
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5050159193721
ASIN: B0001XLXZM


Release Date: 2005-04-26

We Love the Pirates


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Tracks:

  1. Tired of Waiting for You - The Kinks
  2. Tossing and Turning - The Ivy League
  3. Universal Soldier - Donovan
  4. Take a Heart - The Sorrows
  5. Keep a Hold of What You've Got - Shotstar
  6. It's Alright - Ugly's
  7. It's All Happening - Leapy Lee
  8. Take Me for What I'm Worth - The Searchers
  9. Water Is Over My Head - The Rockin' Berries
  10. Take Me for a Little While - The Koobas
  11. That's My Life (My Love, My Home) - Freddie Lennon
  12. Girl
  13. Can't Help Thinking About Me - David Bowie
  14. Cry Cry Cry
  15. Think - Chris Farlowe
  16. Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks
  17. Nowhere Man
  18. Invitation
  19. Pop Art Goes Mozart - The Tornados
  20. That's Nice - Neil Christian & the Crusaders
  21. Love Ya Illya
  22. I Hear Trumpets Blow - Episode Six
  23. I Go to Sleep

Tracks:

  1. Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
  2. Sittin' on a Fence - Twice as Much
  3. Stop! Before You Get Me Going
  4. Aggravation - Chris Curtis
  5. Out of Time - Chris Farlowe
  6. Oops - Neil Christian & the Crusaders
  7. Headline News - The Alan Bown Set
  8. I Dig Everything - David Bowie
  9. We Love the Pirates
  10. Have You Ever Loved Somebody - The Searchers
  11. Dear Mrs. Applebee - David Garrick
  12. My World Fell Down - The Ivy League
  13. Help Me Girl - Eric Burdon & the Animals
  14. True Story - Twice as Much
  15. Colour My World - Petula Clark
  16. Backstreet Girl - Nicky Scott
  17. Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear - Alan Price
  18. I Can't Make It - The Small Faces
  19. Ciao Baby - The Montanas
  20. First Cut Is the Deepest - P.P. Arnold
  21. Morning Dew - Episode Six
  22. She Shot a Hole in My Soul - Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band
  23. Sticks and Stones - Warm Sounds
  24. Even the Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes

Album Description

Subtitled - Charting the Big L fab 40. Reissue of a popular 2003 release, celebrating the golden era of Pirate Radio. Two CD set contains 40 hits. All tracks are interspersed with nostalgic jingles, commercials, station identifications. Artists include The Kinks, The Ivy League, David Bowie, The Truth, The Settlers, Chris Farlowe and more. Castle Music. 2005.

Album Details

This Unique Compilation Juxtaposes Both the Readily Known and Some of These Leftfield Hits, Alongside a Prime Selection of Nostalgic Jingles, Commercials and Stations Idents, a Great Many of which were Made by the Aforementioned Kenny Everett. The 16 Page, Full Color Inlay features Plenty of Rare Memorabilia and Pics, While David Wells Informative Liner Notes Tell the Fascinating Story of Radio London's Relationships with Various Promoters and Music Publishers, which Goes to Explain Why Some of These Obscure Acts Racked Up Such Huge Big L Hits.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars GOOD AUDIO TIME CAPSULE (3.5 to 4.0 stars).......2006-09-07

Yeah nice - enjoyed this as a pretty good recreation of what you could have heard on Big L back in the day. Some harder-to-find semi-legit audios of actual broadcasts are around, but they are generally rough quality and include some DJ chatter that sounds a bit dated and inane now - by contrast the station IDs and jingles on these discs are good audio and keep the pace going. The hard-core sixties collectors will know from the tracklist that it's probably not for them as some tracks are a bit too familiar, but there are enough lesser-known goodies in there that typified the pirates (imagine the beeb's reaction to "Stop you got me going" or "oops" ??) and a few "shouldabinbigger" tracks too (why wasn't Episode Six "Morning Dew" a bone-fide hit ? - probably too many versions around at the same time.) Have also seen some negative comments that some of the music gets close to "easy-listening pop", but that misses the point that a big part of the pirate audience were housewives at home with young kids. If it wasn't for these 2 points "I'd give it five". And finally - old Cuddly Ken was a bit ahead of his time wasn't he ? - if he did all those jingles and things with bits of audio tape, imagine what he would be doing with digital technology now ??

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  1. The Man Who Sold The World/Hunky dory
  2. Greatest Remix Hits 1
  3. One Night Only (Includes Bonus CD) ~ The Bee Gees
  4. This Time Long Ago ~ The Guess Who
  5. Little Fish: A Tribute to Polly Jean Harvey ~ Various Artists
  6. Out of Reach ~ Blind Fury
  7. 25 Years of Dr. Feelgood ~ Dr. Feelgood
  8. Crash into Me ~ Dave Matthews Band
  9. And Also the Trees ~ And Also the Trees
  10. In New Zealand ~ Barbara Manning

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Tarik ~ Dewey Redman

Mosaic Select: Randy Weston ~ Randy Weston

On Revival Day ~ Marty Grosz

In Concert ~ Jimmy Smith

Roots of Jazz Funk, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists

Trinity Fair ~ Bobby Lamb

Chansons De Toujours V.1 ~ Various Artists

Tabaluga Und Lilli ~ Peter Maffay

Sertanejos Inesqueciveis ~ Various Artists

Rockin' the Rez ~ Northern Cree