Best of Blancmange [Import]

Blancmange | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Connoisseur Coll.
• ASIN: B000005RF5
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,151 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. God's Kitchen

2. I've Seen the Word

3. Feel Me

4. Living on the Ceiling

5. Running Thin

6. I Can't Explain

7. Waves

8. Blind Vision

9. That's Love, That It Is

10. Vishnu

11. Don't Tell Me

12. Get Out of That

13. The Day Before You Came

14. All Things Are Nice

15. What's Your Problem

16. Lose Your Love

17. I Can See It

Editorial Reviews

1996 Best-Of Collection from the 80's Sythn-Pop Duo Comprised of Neil Arthur and Steven Luscombe. Features Abba's "The Day Before You Came" and the UK Top 10 Hits "Blind Vision" and "Living on the Ceiling".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Blancmange, July 11, 2001

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This review is from: Best of Blancmange (Audio CD)

The Best of Blancmange? If you were in high school somewhere in the neighborhood of 1982 and 1986 you may remember this band. This collection pulls together the major highlights of this synth duo with odd hair and wacky senses of humor. Living on the Ceiling (their only scrape with the charts) and Vishnu have some eastern influences while Don't Tell Me and What's Your Problem provide some insight to how pervasive David Byrne's influence actually was in the eighties. This record has a generous selection of songs from their best release (Mange Tout) which included their deadpan cover of Abba's The Day Before You Came, fifteen years before covering Abba became fashionable. Consider them akin to OMD with substance, or Depeche Mode with a sense of humor. Either way, this is a fine collection of pop songs that will make you want to laugh or to dance.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD...BUT ALL THE CDS NEED REMASTERING, May 13, 2003

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12 Eloquent Dots (Sitting next to that girl right over there.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Blancmange (Audio CD)

This best of is just another example of the need of remastering the whole catalog. There are great songs lost as a result missing from Happy Families, Mange Tout, and Believe You Me. Waves, included here, has the possiblity of making one forget the troubles of the day and place one in the middle of a quick vacation of fun, clouds, and humor, what other bands can you say have done that?

Do not overlook this band...they had more talent than Depeche Mode, and others, at this time, and one wishes that they should have persued making more music together.

It's like a beautiful flower cut down...it makes one cry.

2 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not a very impressive collection, March 23, 2006

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J. M. Hannon "jmh80" (montgomery county, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Blancmange (Audio CD)

I didn't know a whole alot about Blancmange when I decided to purchase this album. I had seen the "Living On The Ceiling" music video on an 80'sMTV channel & heard "Don't Tell Me" on satellite radio. I'd figure this collection would be to my liking, but I was disappointed. Alot of the tracks weren't memorable or catchy. "God's Kitchen", "I've Seen The Word" & "Feel Me" are good songs, they have that Talking Heads vibe to them. I'm not sorry I purchased this album, for I enjoyed a small percentage of these songs.