Karaoke – So You Wanna Be a Pop Star Triple set
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Customer Review: Same as the first one.
This is the same CD as the other Pop Goes Punk CD, as I found when I ordered it. Oops. So if you have the other one you have this as well. As far as the music goes its a good little novelty, I DJ a punk night and find myself often using the songs on this CD to break the night up, Further Seems Forever’s version of ‘Bye Bye Bye’, Rufio’s ‘Like A Prayer’ and Student Rick’s ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth’ being particularly good.
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PWEI Product 1986-1994: The Pop Will Eat Itself Anthology PWEI Product: 1986-1994 brings together the finest moments of the group–and there are many. From the fuzzy guitar-driven beginnings of “Sick Little Girl” and “Monogamy” to the stunning simplicity of “There Is No Love Between Us Anymore” and the infectious romps of “Wise Up Sucker” and “PWEI-zation”, there’s never a dull moment.
Pop Will Eat Itself, along with the Wonder Stuff, were the figureheads of the grebo movement that came straight out of Birmingham in the early 1990s with long hair, brightly coloured clothing and bouncy tunes. And while the Wonder Stuff got a fiddle player and went all serious, the Poppies got a sampler and became even more stupid, while unwittingly being streets ahead of their time.
They toured with Public Enemy and got bottled offstage, sampled and looped all the popular culture they could get their hands on (Blade Runner, football commentaries, Repo Man, Frank Sinatra…) and developed their own stunning graphics and cartoon characters while the Gorillaz were still either in Blur or designing sleeves for grebo also-rans the Senseless Things. –Helen Marquis
Customer Review: Essential
Poppies here in all their glory, surely the most underrated act this country has produced, and one that we should be proud of, pop music in its purest (dirtest), most meaningful, non-manufactured form
Being a graphic designer I’d like to point out Amazons own reviewers glaring error in claiming the Poppies as the minds behind their fantastic sleeve work which was so a part of making the Poppies image so distinct, it was, to those who dared to care, those lairy northern masters The Designers Republic of Sheffield
Customer Review: AT LAST…
“CAN YOU DIG IT?”
At last, a true “Best of…” covering the whole of The Poppies illustrious career. Just looking at the track listing bought the memories flooding back: Waiting outside the record shop to bag the 12″ of Sweet Sweet Pie on the day of release, recovering from the shock when they first used a drum machine, sniggering at the words to Beaver Patrol, going to see them on the ‘Superpowers’ tour in ‘88 and collecting all those wonderfull shirts…
This “Best Of” seems to have been put together by someone who likes the Poppies and I’m glad to see it isn’t heavilly focused on the end of their career which wasn’t my favorite era. Highlights for me include Candydiosis, No Love and Dance of the Mad.
Although the die hard fan will have everything here (Surely there must have been something slightly rarer around) this is the first time the whole of their career is in one place. I know I’ll end up buying it as I’m sure most fans will. Hopefully the younger fans will learn that there was more to the Poppies than Ski hats and remixes.
To those who may have chanced upon this CD without much knowledge of the Poppies, enjoy it for what it is – a chronical of one of the UK’s most original and influential bands who are still sorely missed today.
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Karaoke – So You Wanna Be a Pop Star Triple set
Customer Review: Avoid
I bought this expecting a karaoke cd… ie one where the words would come up on screen and you would be able to sing along with or without the “artist”. However, there are no words … just a useful note inside the cd case saying that you can print the lyrics off using a pc or write to the manufacturer for them… however even if you did this, you can't get rid of the “artist” singing… its not that different to singing along to a cd in the car … only worse as the song you are singing along to is a bad imitation of the real thing. Avoid… this is essentially just a bad bad cd.
