Angel Dust: The Collected Highs 1978-83

Angelic Upstarts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Anagram UK
• ASIN: B000006Z3F
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #421,909 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Murder of Liddle Towers

2. Police Oppression

3. I'm an Upstart

4. Teenage Warning

5. Never Had Nothing

6. Shotgun Solution

7. Last Night Another Soldier

8. Two Million Voices

9. Kids on the Street

10. England

11. Heath's Lament

12. I Understand

13. Never Say Die

14. Woman in Disguise

15. Solidarity

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of many Best Ofs..., February 14, 2000

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Michael Kulikowski (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel Dust: The Collected Highs 1978-83 (Audio CD)

There are, of course, half a dozen Upstarts collections on a welter of labels not to mention a stack of shoddy Greatest Hits Live cash-ins. This eclipses them all. Somewhere between punk and Oi, the Upstarts actually evolved in a way few of their post-Pistols brethren ever managed. So here we have the essential Murder of Liddle Towers followed by the hooky chants from the first couple of Zonophone albums, wrapped up with killers like Solidarity, Never Say Die, and Woman in Disguise when Paul Thompson, at the time a recent outcast from Roxy Music, brought his demonic thumping to the Upstarts' output. Lead singer Mensi had great Left instincts, and even if his anthemic England, included here, did become a National Front anthem, the Upstarts were always on the side of good. This is where to hear them best.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent album!, May 3, 2004

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J. C Duval "bangsmith" (cumberland, rhode island United States) - See all my reviews
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This is an excellent album. If you want a great compilation of the Angelic Upstarts, buy this along with "Who Killed Liddle" on Recall. Between them, only three songs are repeated, and they're the three best.

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Oi band I know, July 4, 2010

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Valerie M. Gobaira "Tychoskee" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel Dust: The Collected Highs 1978-83 (Audio CD)

No sense in reviewing something I love. This band is the best. The CD sounds great. However, I thought I was getting the double, since this is a double album. I only got part one. However, for 8 dollars, I'm highly satisfied.