PWEI Product 1986-1994: The Pop Will Eat Itself Anthology
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Pop Customer Review: Don’t give it away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This album is great, they need to finish it. Although they’ve left it a bit late.
Try and get hold of the single releases.
Word has it “Last Night on earth” was recorded at 4am on the last day of recording. Talk about pushing it.
Customer Review: Underrated
This album has been bashed by just about everybody for daring to be individual and to include elements from outside of U2’s ’stadium rock’ genre (mainly dance music). Even U2 re-recorded all the tracks from this album which made it to the Best Of. They felt it was incomplete, I couldnt disagree more.
This album has a rawness to it which may put off some but which offers a whole new edge (pardon the pun) to the usual U2 material. This album is dark and self-involved but full of interesting sounds which blend into nothing short of a masterpiece. Mixing dance and rock and roll shouldnt work so well…but it does.
The more classic tracks like ‘Staring at the sun’ and ‘Gone’ are perfectly executed (not like on recent albums where the lyrics just often dont seem to fit the melody) and ‘Please’ is a masterpiece in the same class as ‘One’ and ‘Pride in the name of love’. The more experimental tracks may not be to your palate- ‘Mofo’ does perhaps go a little too trip-hop heavy but the two opening songs sound great and fresh even today, ten years on.
This a great summer album which covers the widest range of emotions and sounds on any U2 cd with the possible exception of ‘Achtung Baby’. There is something for both old and new fans. On paper the mix shouldnt work, but U2 have the quality to carry it off. A top cd.
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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.
