This Is What They Want

Artist: The Chords
Label: Universal/Polydor
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 731454939324
EAN: 0731454939324
ASIN: B000051TSK

Release Date: 2000-11-23

This Is What They Want

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Tracks:

British Way of Life [2000]
Now It's Gone
Maybe Tomorrow
Happy Families
Breaks My Heart
Tumbling Down
Hold On! I'm Comin'
I'm Not Sure
Something's Missing
It's No Use
What Are We Gonna Do Now?
She Said, She Said
Dreamdolls
So Far Away
Things We Said
British Way of Life
In My Street
Empty Dreams
One More Minute
Turn Away Again
Maybe Tomorrow [#]
Knock On Wood
Hey Girl
Don't Go Back
I Don't Wanna Know
This Is What They Want
So Far Away [#]
Way It's Got to Be
Who Asked You
Me and My Precious Life
With My Friends
I'll Keep on Holding On
Home Sweet Home
Who's Killing Who
Turn Away Again (Again)
This Is What They Want with a Cello
Two Weeks in Heaven
Now It's Gone [#]

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Album Description

40 track anthology for the mod revival act featuring Mick Talbot (Merton Parkas and Style Council). Includes the hit 'Maybe Tomorrow' and previously unreleased alternate versions of 'Maybe Tomorrow', 'So Far Away' and 'Now It's Gone'. 17 previously unreleased tracks in all. Universal. 2000.

Customer Reviews:

Doesn't Have Stiff Records Version of "Maybe Tomorrow".......2005-10-04

Hi, when I was 16 I was really getting into the new wave/punk/ska scene and it all revolved around the British bands for me. I saw a bunch of them in medium size venues in New York City, and it was a great scene. I never saw the Chords, and the name never connected for me till just recently when I yearned to find the music I used to listen to in 1980 but had lost (ex-girlfriends keeping my record collection!) and started to do some internet sleuthing (isn't the internet great!). Well one song I had burned into my memory cells because I would play it loud as hell over and over was "Maybe Tomorrow". I had it (the only Chords song I ever owned till I bought this cd), on a Stiff Compilation record (#3 I think), it had so awesome music on it, Motorhead, The Damned, Madness (early stuff), Lena Lovich, The Cure (my favorite song at the time "Jumping someone else's train!"), and the most obscure for me because it took me 25 years to come across them again....The Chords. So I finally started putting two and two together and realized that this was the awesome group that did the awesome song "Maybe Tomorrow" gotta have it yesterday! Then I'm debating do I get this 2 cd set or just the single cd with the same track on it. Well, if I love the rest of their music I'll end up getting the 2 cd set anyway so I better take the plunge. Now I'm not saying that's a terrible move cause its only $10.00, but when I got the cd I put it on Maybe Tomorrow and YEAH that's the song! But wait.... it's a different version, its more "pop" it's got people hand clapping rhythms on it, boy I'm glad I bought this version with disc two's alternate track that must be the one I have sung over and over for 25 years right? WRONG! The alternate "Maybe Tomorrow" is also "pop" not the hard edged almost punk version that they did for Stiff Records! It must have been really early in their short span before Polydor or whoever polished them up. Oh well, I found out where to get the original compilation record (isn't the internet a great thing?) but since I don't have a record player I'll probably pass and settle for pop. British way of life is a great sounding song as are a lot of others here, just not the way I would have envisioned the songs from hearing only that Stiff version of "Maybe Tomorrow". Another criticism, I put all my cd's on my laptop and use it as my media playback and disc 2 tracks are all labeled wrong (they are the same song labels as disc 1's songs) that's something that also happened when I bought the Jam box set and they are both Polydor labels so some crappy proofreading of the finished product (or maybe that's a screw-up and they are worth more or less who knows). Happy I made the purchase but not nearly as edgy as I would have liked, still I'm gonna tell my 16 and 12 year old that this is a new band that's not getting American radio airtime and see if they buy it, some tracks still hold up well to todays stuff.

Highly Recommended Vital Power Pop.......2001-10-25

The Chords were to The Jam what The Who's John Entwistle was to Pete Townsend: a very good band at the same time and place (and label) as a great one. Their sound and style quickly aligned them with the Mod Revival of 1979, which, at the time, was a good portal for cheif composer/lead guitarist Chris Pope's stinging power-pop and his observations of "the British way of life." On more than one occasion Pope out-power-popped The Jam's Paul Weller: "Maybe Tomorrow" is a chaotic tour de force; "The Way It's Got To Be" a tender ballad that isn't compromised by the band's maximum speed approach. Their interpretaion of The Beatles' "She Said She Said" is one of the best covers I've heard - lush guitar work backed by manic drumming that maintains the song's spirit while truly becoming a Chords tune. In 1981, with a new lead vocalist in place, the band's sound began to evolve, with Pope's composing showing a startling maturity and finesse. But as they foretold in one of their own tunes, no one was listening anymore, and the band splintered. Compiled by Buddy Ascott, the band's drummer, 'This Is What They Want' gathers nearly all of the Chords' output for Polydor (missing is the original version of the debut single "Now It's Gone," represented by a re-cut of the tune they did for the bonus freebie 7-inch given away with the 'So Far Away' album). What keeps this collection from being 5-star is the inclusion of the demos, which is only for the most frothingly rabid of fans. Nevertheless, this collection is highly recommended for aficionados of late-'70s melodic power-pop, which had the brightest yet briefest shine between the Sex Pistols and Spandau Ballet.

Agreed - Finally!.......2001-10-12

The Chords were to The Jam what John Entwistle is to Pete Townsend - a very good band at a time and a place (and a label) as a great one. From their barely two years in the light, The Chords offered manic melodic post-punk powerpop that, on certain levels, outdid anything Weller had offered. While guitarist and chief composer Chris Pope may not have had a knack for gentler ballads (as the Jam were issuing with "That's Entertainment" or the string version of "Smithers-Jones") he showed a verve for intricate guitar/bass doubling patterns and vocal harmonies, which his bandmates performed with fluency. The set contains the lone Polydor album So Far Away, most of the original singles (the debut "Now It's Gone" is excluded for the version recut for bonus single given away with the album), and is peppered with various demos. It's these demo recordings that keep this from being a 5-star album, as they are strictly for the most frothing of rabid fans. Yet this set - compiled by the band's drummer, Buddy Ascott - is a vital compendium of exuberant power-pop from the brief spark of time between the Sex Pistols and Spandau Ballet.

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