The Chameleons UK - Return of the Roughnecks: The Best of Chameleons UK
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Artist: The Chameleons UKEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2001-02-13
Music Label: Dead Dead
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Silence, Sea and Sky
- Swamp Thing
- In Shreds
- Home Is Where the Heart Is
- Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days
- Mad Jack
- Don't Fall
- Caution
- Second Skin
- Perfume Garden
- Tears
- Monkeyland
- Nostalgia
- View from a Hill
- Is It Any Wonder
- Free for All
- Healer
- Denims and Curls
Free Music Notes for Return of the Roughnecks: The Best of Chameleons UK
Free Music Review: Otherworldly beauty
Hit: 5 Stars
Most of the time when I review popular culture products, whether books, games or music, I do my utmost to lean towards a middle rating. I am very sensitive to the momentary passions that can affect a person for a short period upon which the cold glare of a dawn many years later leads to "What was I thinking? They're not that good at all!"
The Chameleons do not fall in that category. Once a fan, one tends to remain a fan forever. They really are that good.
The real challenge for any Chameleon's LP is trying to pick up a weak spot. They are talented musicians and lyricists, with great guitar harmonics and haunting lyrics of exceptional quality attacking the mundane and the inhumane at every opportunity.
This LP is an excellent selection from their first three LPs and a great way to introduce newcomers to their distinctive sound which, as correctly noted by others, does have familiarity to those who've experienced The Fall, the Psychedelic Furs and The Church.
One does struggle to pick favourites from this LP, even given the the relative diversity of style available. There's the soft and semi-acoustic "Tears", the terrors of "A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days" and "Second Skin", the anomie in "Monkeyland", and the passionate "Nostalgia" and "In Shreds".
Yes, there's all this and more. Buy this and you will not be disappointed.
Return of the Roughnecks: The Best of Chameleons UK Poster
First ever 'best of' for Manchester's finest '80s band. Thefirst 3,000 copies include the rare 'Tony Fletcher Walked OnWater...' EP. Guitarist Reg Smithies provided the artwork. A total of 20 tracks on two full color picture CDs in a double slimline jewel case, including 'Swamp Thing', 'In Shreds','Don't Fall', 'Nostalgia', 'Second Skin', 'Perfume Garden','Tears' (Original Version) and 'Monkeyland'. 1997 release.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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