The Bangles - Manic Monday: The Best of the Bangles
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Artist: The BanglesEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-10-01
Music Label: Music Club Deluxe
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Manic Monday - Bangles, Nelson, Prince Roge
- Going Down to Liverpool - Bangles, Rew, Kimberley
- Walk Like an Egyptian - Bangles, Sternberg, Liam
- If She Knew What She Wants - Bangles, Shear, Jules
- Hero Takes a Fall - Bangles, Hoffs, Susanna
- Live - Bangles, Rhodes, E.
- James - Bangles, Peterson, Vicki
- All About You - Bangles, Peterson, V.
- Dover Beach - Bangles, Hoffs, Susanna
- Tell Me - Bangles, Hoffs, Susanna
- Restless - Bangles, Hoffs, S.
- He's Got a Secret - Bangles, Peterson, V.
- Silent Treatment - Bangles, Peterson, V.
- More Than Meets the Eye - Bangles, Peterson, V.
- Walking Down Your Street - Bangles, Gutierrez, L.
- In a Different Light - Bangles, Peterson, Vicki
- Following - Bangles, Steele, M.
- Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles, Simon, Paul
- In Your Room - Bangles, Hoffs, S.
- Eternal Flame - Bangles, Hoffs, S.
- Be with You - Bangles, Peterson, D.
- I'll Set You Free - Bangles, Lowen, E.
- Return Post - Bangles, Hoffs, S.
- Where Were You When I Needed You - Bangles, Shear, Jules
- Let It Go - Bangles, Hoffs, S.
- September Gurls - Bangles, Chilton, A.
- Angels Don't Fall in Love - Bangles, Hoffs, S.
- Not Like You - Bangles, Hoffs, S.
- Complicated Girl - Bangles, White, D.
- Bell Jar - Bangles, Peterson, V.
- Something to Believe In - Bangles, White, D.
- Watching the Sky - Bangles, Hoffs, Susanna
- Some Dreams Come True - Bangles, Peterson, Debbi
- Crash and Burn - Bangles, Peterson, V.
- Everything I Wanted - Bangles, Hoffs, Susanna
Free Music Notes for Manic Monday: The Best of the Bangles
Free Music Review: GREAT AUDIO, BUT A LITTLE MESSY IN COMPILATION
Hit: 4 Stars
Bangles compilations are now a dime a dozen (AMG lists nearly 30!). This one caught my eye, however, being a 2CD set.
From an audio standpoint, the mastering on this set is excellent. Several compilations ("Essential", "We Are The 80's" and "Glitter Years") released by Columbia/Legacy in recent years have been annoyingly "loudened", but this set has the correct dynamic range of the original releases. The audio presented here is definitely better than the original CD albums and slightly superior to the 1990 "Greatest Hits" disc.
However, some curious and even frustrating aspects of this set are the track sequencing, the booklet and some unnecessary omissions.
There was plenty of room to include all three of The Bangles albums in their entirety, plus the three non-album tracks ("Where Were You When I Needed You", "Hazy Shade Of Winter" and "Everything I Wanted") which all appeared on "Greatest Hits".
Those three made it into this set, but "Glitter Years", "Make a Play for Her Now" and "Waiting For You", off their third studio album "Everything", did not.
Disc 1 clocks in at 54:22, the second at 62:45. So, there was available space for the inclusion of those tracks. Heck, there was even room for "I Got Nothing" off the OOP "Goonies" soundtrack, which would have made this a complete Bangles pre-reunion studio compilation. Frustrating.
Then, there's the sequencing: Disc 1 has 18 tracks, which curiously commences with only 4 of the 8 charted singles, then proceeds to the remainder of the first album in its entirety, correctly sequenced. The last four tracks are from the second album, "Different Light", but out of original running order. All not a big deal, but strange nonetheless.
Things get much wackier on Disc 2. Instead of starting with the remainder of the 2nd album, track 1 is 1987's "Hazy Shade Of Winter", followed by skipping to four songs from the third album "Everything", then BACKWARD for the other two non-album tracks, FORWARD for the remaining "Different Light" material, and finishing with the last songs off "Everything", but with the afore-mentioned omission of three tracks!
If both discs had been close to being max'd out, I could understand having to jumble things to get everything to fit, but that's just not the case. Too weird!
The booklet has "If She Knew What She Wants" incorrectly listed twice as track 7 on Disc 2, which is actually "Where Were You When I Needed You", but it's correct on the back of the outer slipcover. Sheesh.
All of the logistical oddities aside, this set is definitely the one to own; it has the best bang-for-the-buck it terms of audio quality and depth of material. It's also a textbook example of proper remastering faithful to the original mix/mastering.
Manic Monday: The Best of the Bangles Poster
2007 Release of a Double CD Anthology of the all Female Pop Band that Played all their Own Instruments, Wrote all their Own Songs, Save for the Occasional Cover Version. They Came to the Late Miles Copland's Attention in the Early 1980's after He was Already Working with the Go-go's, Another La Female Pop Group Poised to Make it Big. After the Go-go's Had Hit the Summit, the Bangles Sailed Right in after them with a Song Written by Prince, "Manic Monday", Followed by the #1 Hit "Walk Like an Egyptian" and a Cover of Paul Simon's "a Hazy Shade of Winter", Recorded for the Sountrack of the Film "Less Than Zero". Here Are all the Key Tracks the Gals Recorded, Long Before the Spice Girls Purported their "Girl Power" Campaign.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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