Antmusic: The Very Best of [Import]

Adam & The Ants | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B00000INLA
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,889 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stand and Deliver

2. Kings of the Wild Frontier

3. Dog Eat Dog

4. Wonderful

5. Room At The Top

6. Apollo 9

7. Car Trouble

8. Friends

9. Desperate But Not Serious

10. Prince Charming

11. Goody Two Shoes

12. Puss'n Boots

13. Friend or Foe

14. Strip

15. Vive le Rock

16. Zerox

17. Antmusic

18. Deutscher Girls

19. Ant Rap

20. Kick

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

22 track retrospective of his hits with & without The Ants in the '80s & '90s, the first collection to do so! Includes 'Wonderful', 'Stand & Deliver', 'Goody Two Shoes', 'Desperate But Not Serious', 'Ant Rap', 'Antmusic' and 'Strip'. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You can't make me give back "Antics in the Forbidden Zone", December 13, 2006

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JJGemini "Dude in a monkey suit" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Antmusic: The Very Best of (Audio CD)

Okay, someone's getting crazy with the compilations. After Antics in the Forbidden Zone I didn't see any reason to have any more Best Of Adam Ant albums.

But here are the changes in song selections from Antics in the Forbidden Zone to Very Best of Adam and the Ants:

Very Best of Adam and the Ants is not in chronological order. I kind of like that, some people don't mind either way.

The following songs from [Antics] are not on [Very Best]
X - "Beat My Guest" (classic song, also from the film SLC Punk!)
X - "Killer In The Home" (haunting classic)
X - "Los Ranceros" (interesting country two-step)
X - "Place In The Country" (my favourite Ant song!)
X - "Whip In My Valise" (menacing classic)

These songs were added to [Very Best of Adam and the Ants]:
"Can't Set Rules About Love" (saccharine pop ballad)
"Deutscher Girls" (obscure b-side)
"Friends" (classic b-side)
"Room At The Top" (latter day sacccharine dance pop)
"Wonderful" (latter day adult-contemporary drivel)
"Young Parisians" (obscure b-side)

*ALL 16 OTHER SONGS ARE THE SAME ON BOTH ALBUMS.

A look at these changes brings me to the following conclusions. They wanted to add songs from subsequent albums Wonderful and Manners & Physique and add some B-Sides for fun. The only new song worth having is "Friends". "Young Parisians" (the French song?) and "Deutscher Girls" (the German song?) are good but don't belong on a "very best of Adam Ant" compilation. I grant that maybe "Los Rancheros" isn't needed on [Antics] and could probably have been replaced with from "(You're So) Physical" which is the one song missing from both compilations.

Taking the new albums into consideration, I would have probably rather added "Beautiful Dream" from [Wonderful] and "Anger, Inc" and the title song from [Manners & Physique]

Of any of the B-Sides I would have added "Doggy Style".

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Antics in the Forbidden Zone
B-Side Babies

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MUST BUY, May 5, 2004

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Mr. A. Peacock "Sandy Peacock" (Edinburgh, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Antmusic: The Very Best of (Audio CD)

whether ur part of the insect nation or an ant virgin, this is definatley a must buy for everyone. his unique singing voice and the band. There r some great classics and ones which wil be new to people. There are so many songs as well. Great value for money. One of the best cds in my large collection

this is a superb cd and my favs on it hav to be
antmusic, stand and deliver, prince charming, apollo 9 and most of the rest.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 20 years + of outstanding antmusic, July 19, 2000

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"twistercw" (hugo,ok,usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Antmusic: The Very Best of (Audio CD)

by far the best collection of ant music out there.plenty of ant favorites plus some very hard to find classics also if you were lucky enough to get a early copy of this it came with a live concert cd this is a must for all fans everywhere.............