Best [Import]

Fairground Attraction | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bmg Japan
• ASIN: B00000JA5C
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,741,168 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fairground Attraction

2. Perfect

3. Find My Love

4. Allelujah

5. A Smile in a Whisper

6. Clare

7. Walking After Midnight

8. Do You Want to Know a Secret?

9. The Moon Is Mine

10. Watching the Party

11. Winter Rose

12. The Wind Knows My Name

13. Jock O' Hazeldean

14. The Game of Love

15. Comedy Waltz

16. You Send Me

17. Ay Fond Me

18. Allelujah [Live]

19. Clare [Live]

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Scottish folk-pop group of the eighties, April 13, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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Mark Nevin (a songwriter and guitarist) and Eddi Reader (an excellent female singer) founded Fairground attraction, a four-piece Scottish group that recorded one official album (First of a million kisses) before disbanding, but there was enough material recorded to fill a second album (Ay fond kiss), released after the break-up. This compilation has most of the tracks from both those albums. Following the break-up, Eddi has recorded a series of solo albums while Mark Nevin has focused on songwriting. The brilliant Irish folk-pop singer Frances Black is just one of many who singers who have recorded some of his songs.

Although they didn't last long as a group, they had a British number one hit with Perfect, another major UK hit (Find my love) and two lesser hits (A smile and a whisper, Clare). I'm not sure how well they did in America, but Bailie and the boys recorded a country version of Perfect so their name certainly got around. All those hits were written by Mark, who also wrote many other fine songs for the group including The moon is mine and The wind knows my name.

Despite Mark's excellent songwriting skills, the group also recorded several covers including Walking after midnight (Patsy Cline), You send me (Sam Cooke), Ay fond kiss (traditional, lyrics by the poet Robert Burns) and Jock O'Hazeldean (another traditional song). In her solo career, Eddi eventually recorded a whole album of songs with Burns lyrics.

To my ears, the eighties were not a great decade overall for British pop music and I was surprised that a group such as Fairground attraction could succeed. But they did and we can all be thankful for that. If you enjoy folk-pop music, you'll love this group.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than fair, April 20, 2008

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G. Moore (Burnie, Tasmania Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

Being a new convert to this group I ordered this album and having recently received it via Amazon I have played it to death. It is fantastic. That is true of almost every song on this album. The lyrics are fantastic and the music is to die for. What a group they were. I am not sure where I was at the time of their peek. Must have been very focussed on something else is all I can say. Buy it and sit back and enjoy again and again and again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING ALBUM, November 13, 2006

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Dana Garcia "Dana" (Norfolk VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

My husband and I love this album. It is fun and upbeat. Reader's voice is crisp and beautiful. We used the song Perfect after we walked down the aisle. It set a whimsical, cheery mood to our whole wedding; instead of the usual boring stuff. We actually fight over who gets this CD in their car.