The Essential Bangles

The Bangles - The Essential Bangles

The Essential Bangles
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Artist: The Bangles
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-03-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Manic Monday
  2. Walking Down Your Street
  3. I Got Nothing
  4. If She Knew What She Wants
  5. Eternal Flame
  6. Getting Out Of Hand
  7. I'll Set You Free
  8. Walk Like An Egyptian
  9. What I Meant To Say
  10. I'm In Line
  11. Be With You
  12. In Your Room
  13. Hero Takes A Fall
  14. Hazy Shade Of Winter
  15. Following

Free Music Notes for The Essential Bangles

Free Music Review: Confusing
Hit: 3 Stars

Instead of a pure greatest hits package (which has already been done), or a collectors disc to clean up the odds and ends from the Bangles discography which haven't been released on disc yet, this set offers falls short on both.

As stated before, "Going Down to Liverpool" is missing. And that fact alone would make the "average" fan opt for the 1990 Greatest Hits package. Which I would recommend over this if the goal was to have all the singles.

On the other hand, if Sony/Columbia wanted to satisfy the die-hards they would have cleaned the closet and gave us all those rarities. While its great to have "What I Meant To Say", why would they exclude "Getting Out of Hand" while its B-side "Call On Me" is presented? Very odd. What's even more frustrating is that only one cut from the Bangles 1982 EP is featured ("I'm In Line", probably the weakest track.) If they wanted a singles compilation, they should have included "Real World" instead, which was released as a remixed 12-inch. "I Got Nothing" is a pleasant surprise, however it's been dramatically remixed so anyone who wants the original still has to hunt down "The Goonies" soundtrack.

For an odds and ends disc other possiblities would have been "Mary Street", "Want You", "How Is the Air Up There", the rare "Bitchin' Summer (Speedway)" instrumental and the mega-rare live version of "Hero Takes a Fall". And while "I'll Be Your Mirror" and "I'll Keep It With Mine" are solo Susanna songs, they were made during her Bangles tenure. We also know that a live version of "Tell Me" was recorded in 1985 but is still sitting in the can. Let's not also forget "Get The Girl", the 1999 "Spy Who Shagged Me" cut, and the UK B-side edit of "In Your Room". Bonus or hidden tracks could have included the No Magazine ad (set to the tune of "Getting Out of Hand") and Michael's spoken word "El Polo Loco".

So you see there was enough obscure material for a 2-disc Bangles anthology which would have kept everyone happy.

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