Billy Idol - Idol Songs: 11 of the Best
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Artist: Billy IdolEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1998-09-22
Music Label: EMI Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Rebel Yell
- Hot In The City
- White Wedding
- Eyes Without A Face
- Catch My Fall
- Mony Mony
- To Be A Lover
- Sweet Sixteen
- Flesh For Fantasy
- Don't Need A Gun
- Dancing With Myself
Free Music Notes for Idol Songs: 11 of the Best
Free Music Review: Don't believe I once bought this now
Hit: 1 Stars
Back in the 1990s I aimed to collect all the chart hits from the 1980s. In those days I felt that all music called "alternative" was just violent amplified noise and shouting tuneless vocals that I could never differentiate between, and the loud techno I found equally horrible.
Despite this aversion to hard rock and alternative, I really did buy this Billy Idol best-of.
At the time I though "Sweet Sixteen" was kind of beautiful and "Hot In The City" really, really haunting. However, the reality of this album, as I have found out long ago, is quite different and nasty.
For the most part, Keith Forsey's production creates a wall of noise - worst on the dreadful "White Wedding" that overshadows anything Idol and guitar partner Steve Stevens can produce. On "Eyes Without A Face" the production turns a psychedelic effect into meandering, yet tuneless metal guitar. Moreover, the ballads "To Be A Lover" and "Sweet Sixteen" for which I bought the album really sound just so soppy now. "Dancing With Myself" could really best be described as amplified disco, whilst "Rebel Yell" combined the worst of heavy metal and punk with a tuneless proto-techno beat. Even the fairly pleasant "Catch My Fall" (with Mars Williams on saxophone) clearly gave little evidence of real feeling in its chorus.
Nevertheless, worst of all was the unbelievably dreadful "Don't Need A Gun", which could well be the worst song I have ever heard. So tuneless that the parts of the song do not even fit together, it is rounded off by Idol's atrocious voice, which has so little feeling in it that when he tries to roar it felt and always was as blunt as a spoon. On other songs he verges upon talking in such a way that one thing he never cared at all about what he was doing.
Even before I tried to seriously listen to music, "Idol Songs" became an embarrassing purchase. Not recommended.
Idol Songs: 11 of the Best Poster
1988 U.K. comp with different tracks and/ or versions than those on the U.S. Chrysalis comp 'Vital Idol'. 11 of his greatest rebel yells, including 'Rebel Yell', 'Hot In The City', 'Sweet Sixteen', 'Flesh For Fantasy', 'Dancing With Myself', 'Eyes Without A Face', 'White Wedding', 'Mony Mony'and 'To Be A Lover'.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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