Alternative Hits of the 80's

Alternative Hits of the 80's Artist: Various Artists
Label: Masters Intercontine
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 024266126328
EAN: 0024266126328
ASIN: B00007BH11


Release Date: 2002-10-01

Alternative Hits of the 80's


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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Stop! Go Read A Book.......2004-03-28

We need a 0 star rating. The people at the Masters Record Label should be ashamed of themselves. This is clearly a case of misdirection. Yes, these are the original artists but nowhere near the original versions or versions even close to resembling them. Obviously they did not have the rights to the original recordings (read:no $$$) so they must have found recordings that were made at a different time. And club mixes...? Puh-leeze... Take a crap recording and play it over a casio keyboard and this is their idea of a club mix? An insult to the artists' fans and fans of the genre in general. I guess legally, they actually didn't claim they were original, but they didn't warn you that they weren't, either. Don't bother with this one. Do something more worthwhile instead. Read a book.... even the phone book.

2 out of 5 stars Actually, these ARE the listed artists.......2004-02-13

These really are the original artists doing these songs. However, that doesn't mean this CD is suddenly worth buying. None of these songs are re-mixes of the original versions, they are all complete re-makes OR in the case of two tracks, live versions.

Several of the tracks (Howard Jones, Animotion, Lihmahl (the ex-lead singer for Kajagoogoo) are so similar to the original I can't understand why they bothered to re-record these.

Gary Numan's Cars is a live version (labeled a 'Club Mix'...). This might interest hardcode GN fans, its not a bad version although I suspect there are better ones available.

The only other interesting tracks on here are BowWowWow's 'I Want Candy' and Flock Of Seagulls 'I Ran'. Both of these are very different from the originals. I Want Candy goes for a modern techno feel, and Flock Of Seagulls is almost a dark techno/house version. I listen to a lot of techno/house/electronica and neither of these tracks appealed to me, but fans of these bands might be interested if they like techno.

Overall the problem with this CD is that all of the FUN has been sucked out of these songs.

1 out of 5 stars

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