Ultimate 70s Pop
About Time: the Definitive Mod-Pop Collection 1967-1968 
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Customer Review: The Attack,attack!
Never heard of this group before,apart from one song on a four disc MOD set,thought I’d see if they had any albums,lucky for me they did,albeit all four singles and B-sides plus never released material! And I have got to say its the best C.D I’ve bought for a while! Great tracks like ‘Try it’ ‘Go your way’ and a great little pop song called ‘Created by Clive’! If you like a bit of rough sometimes heavy R & B then I recommend! I’m truely loving this record!
The Pop Hits 
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Customer Review: Converted to Pop? Not quite but enjoyable anyway!
Having purchased the Ballad Hits, I felt I had to complete the Roxette collection by getting the Pop Hits. I do not often listen to pop music often but Roxette’s unique style and their combination of rock & pop makes this a refreshing and enjoyable listen for me. Some of the songs like ‘The Look ‘, ‘Joyride’, ‘Dangerous’, ‘The Big L’, ‘Sleeping In My Car’ I was familiar with before I bought the album and these along with ‘Church of Your Heart’ are my favourite songs. Generally speaking I prefer their rock songs over their pop as this is what I have been used to them performing. If there are any complaints, I would have liked to have had “She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” on the album, which is a rock song and suits Roxette’s style in my opinion, “Run to You” is a bit flat and needs a bit more soul to fit in with the other material on the album and “Little Miss Sorrow” is rather drawn out with Per’s voice sounding over-stretched & out of character towards the end. “Stars” took a bit of getting used to but is a wonderfully characterful song made all the more amusing after seeing the video to it. Overall, I still prefer the Ballad hits but for me to listen to “pop”, Roxette must have done something to attract my attention!
Customer Review: The Rock-Set album
This is an album full of great pop/rock songs, from the 80’s,(…) 90’s (…) and the 00’s (…) The new song is “Opportunity Nox” and has the best Roxette guitar solo ever, then “Little Miss Sorrow” which is a nice story telling song with some great feeling in it. This album will uplift any soul. Great for a party or getting ready to go out or to play an air guitar on !(…) A shame this album has had no promotion for people to know it’s out there (…) “The Ballad Hits” and “The Pop Hits” together make the perfect collection.
Sampler 2: Art, Pop and Contemporary Music Graphics This reviewer angrily objected to the advent of CDs on the grounds that four square-inch cover art simply doesn’t do justice to the medium. This loving, lavish exploration of music graphics by London-based design practice Intro–who themselves design record covers and direct music videos–shows that perhaps this reviewer was a bit hasty.
The evolution of music graphics seems to have been galvanised, rather than hindered, by shrinking covers to a third of their former size and encasing them in jewelled plastic. Sampler2 leads you through the evolution of this specialisation, from typography to layout to printing techniques, and explores what designer Adrian Shaughnessy of Intro characterises as a search for authenticity that’s distinct from the instant gratification we often associate with conventional graphic design.
But mainly this book gives joy by inundating you with page after page of cover art, the graphics printed on the CDs themselves and the little extras–hand-written liner notes, translucent paper packaging and the like–we’ve grown to expect from the artistry of modern music. –Liz Bailey
Customer Review: Better than he thinks.
I think that the Intro books are superb…along with the two volumes of Blue Note cover art, the book on soundtrack cover art, and the one covering the blues, I think these are essential for anybody interested in the history & development of commercial graphic arts as applied to the music industry. Of course these books will cover contemporary releases, they’re put together by a contemporary design firm, after all. It doesn’t matter when these designs were made, some of them are still rather ingenious.
Customer Review: Covers a lot of good music related design
This book shows a good selection of graphics, which are mostley used in the music industry,But a lot of it you would have seen before if you buy current music.So i was a bit disapointed by this, But it is a really good book to have if you want to discover whats out and about at the moment in the wonderfull world of music packaging.
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Ultimate 70s Pop
Customer Review: Same old suspects but some welcome rarities !
For those of us who are trying to obtain the hits they enjoyed from the 70s on CD by purchasing most of the collections in order to obtain a few previously unobtainable tracks, this 3 CD set will satisfy you ! “Mandy”; “I Only Have Eyes For You” and “Annie’s Song” are most welcome big hits from the era not usually included on thse sets.
Of course the usual suspects are there - “Blockbuster”; “Tiger Feet”; “All The Young Dudes”, “School’s Out”, but, amazingly for a 70s compliation, no “Make Me Smile” !! Also, tellingly, no Gary Glitter tracks appear on these sets anymore, so we are left with the ubiquitous “Angel Face” (face of an angel!!).
The collection will also suffice as a first time buy for anyone looking to hold a 70s party !
Nice to see “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” taking its rightful place for once. Ludicrous although it may be, it has “70s” written all the way through it for me and I’m sure for many others. Also, check out its superb bass line ! Chicago’s “If You Leave Me Now” is a welcome inclusion, as is The Osmonds’ “Love Me For A Reason”.
Overall, a worthy effort.
However, why is “Daydream Believer” included ? Everyone knows it is a 60s song ! Bizarre !!
Customer Review: Fifty UK pop hits of the seventies
The seventies were a decade of contrasts when it came to pop music. There is plenty of variety here with soul, disco, reggae, easy listening, country and hard rock together with plenty of lightweight pop music. Now, I have very eclectic tastes in music but even I won’t pretend to like everything here. However I’ve seen plenty of compilations of seventies pop music and I’ve yet to see one that I like all the way through. I suspect that you feel the same, though your pet hates may be different from mine.
Of the fifty tracks here, about thirty made number one in the UK charts and most of the others made the UK top ten, so on that basis alone each track justifies is selection except Daydream believer. The compiler made a mistake by including a Monkees track - they didn’t have a UK hit in the seventies at all. Daydream believer was a UK hit for them in 1967 (and for Anne Murray in 1980) but doesn’t belong here. Other than that, the biggest surprise to me (and very nice to see it) is the inclusion of Annie’s song, because it is rare for a John Denver track to appear on a various artists compilation.
Many big names are here including Abba, Elton John, Dawn, Cliff Richard, Hot Chocolate, 10cc, Mud, ELO, Dr Hook, Barry Manilow, Leo Sayer, Showaddywaddy, Tammy Wynette, Art Garfunkel, the Bay City Rollers, Chicago, Sweet, David Essex, the New Seekers, Bread, Carly Simon, the Osmonds, the Three Degrees and Elvis Presley, but their greatest hits are available individually and they aren’t all represented by the most obvious hit here. This is good - it means that if you already have other various artists compilations, there will be less duplication.
A compilation like this allows you to get big hits by artists that only had a few hits (perhaps only one), some of which are hard to find or unavailable outside compilations of this type. Among these songs, my favorites are January (Pilot), Barbados (Typically Tropical), Seasons in the sun (Terry Jacks), Rock the boat (Hues Corporation), Love grows (Edison Lighthouse), In the summertime (Mungo Jerry), Band of gold (Freda Payne) and Yellow River (Christie).
If you are looking for a representative collection of big UK hits of the seventies, this is certainly one of the strongest I’ve seen. It’s not perfect but it’s as near perfect as I expect of such a compilation.
