The Best of Goldfinger CD/DVD

Goldfinger | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 19, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Mojo / Jive
• ASIN: B0007X9UMO
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,086 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Here In Your Bedroom

2. Mable

3. Miles Away

4. Superman

5. If Only

6. This Lonely Place

7. Just Like Heaven

8. Counting The Days

9. San Simeon

10. 99 Red Balloons

11. Tell Me

12. Open Your Eyes

13. Spokesman

14. The Innocent

15. Vintage Queen

16. Hopeless

17. Red Balloons- video

18. People?- video

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goldfinger, June 9, 2005

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Mike Oxlong - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Goldfinger CD/DVD (Audio CD)

Ok first off im gonna list whats on the DVD cuz no one else has here it is:
1.Here In Your Bedroom
2.Mable
3.This Lonely Place
4.Counting the Days
5.99 Red Balloons
6.Open Your Eyes
7.Spokesman (live house of blues 2003)
8.Stay (live house of blues 2003)
9.Bonus Footage

All these are good and the bonus footage is funny. The best video i think is counting the days cuz its really funny. The DVD is worth the money itself but its cool its a CD too. This is worth every penny.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great album if you like or ever liked Goldfinger., May 18, 2005

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Forrest "Rock Music Fan" (Northern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Goldfinger CD/DVD (Audio CD)

I did not write the following review. I found it on a site without any credit of who wrote it. If I knew who wrote it, I would most definately give the person credit. But it has been almost a month since this album came out and no one has reviewed it, which surprises me. So the following is the review I found. And I may write my own in the future after more people review this wonderful CD/DVD. Now onto the review.

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There's certainly a number of things to discuss when bringing up Goldfinger. While the band is partially responsible for the mid-90's third wave ska revival explosion, they also put out Goldfinger, widely considered one of the top albums of its genre. But like many of their peers (Less Than Jake, the Suicide Machines, Reel Big Fish), the band slowly alienated a good portion of their fanbase with releases focusing a fair deal more on punk-pop / pop-rock as time passed. They achieved a second wave of fame in one of the least credible ways possible (a cover), and then found front-man John Feldmann taking advantage of their popularity to spread his vegan beliefs. It's been a mildly bizzarre journey with its healthy share of backlash. Five full-lengths later the band is given the greatest hits treatment in the form of a "Best Of" compilation CD and DVD.

The Best Of Goldfinger, while a bit untimely and suspiciously released barely a month after the band's latest proper full-length, Disconnection Notice, is a mostly complete package, the CD version containing 17 tracks (13 "hits," 1 previously unreleased, 3 movie soundtrack cuts) and a DVD with all the band's music videos and a few previously unreleased live videos from 2003 performances at the House of Blues. So while this purchase is questionable for the aforementioned who were alienated about halfway through the band's catalog, it's essential for completists and a likely buy for lifelong fans.

While void of tracks from Disconnection Notice, the chronological track listing draws fairly equally from the rest of Goldfinger's albums. Goldfinger provides three, Hang-Ups three, the band's covers EP, Darrin's Coconut Ass: Live one, Stomping Ground four, and Open Your Eyes three. "The Innocent," the band's post-9/11, MP3.com-only tribute and collaboration with Mest and Good Charlotte is sure to elicit some groans from listeners, while the more NOFX-esque "Hopeless" is pretty interesting, and closer "Rio" a raw throwback with some funky keyboards and upstroke-laced chorus. "Here In Your Bedroom" is a nicely modest and more ska-influenced opener for the disc, and its fellow album tracks here should be enough to stir up nostalgia for anyone who had their interest in the band long stripped.

The DVD contains a total of 8 videos, with the only real standouts including the Alien spoof of "This Lonely Place" and the subject of incest and the corporate marketing of the meat and tobacco industry in "Open Your Eyes" (the latter is honestly the most well put together and shot video of the bunch). While shrewdly thrown together is ten minutes of relatively throwaway "bonus footage" as well, the two live videos for "Spokesman" and "Stay" are well-shot with crystal clear audio.

While The Best Of... is certainly a healthy package for Goldfinger fans, the only issue left deciding is how much of a Goldfinger fan you actually still are.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome CD, September 22, 2005

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Dysentary Gary - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Goldfinger CD/DVD (Audio CD)

This is one of the best cd's i have ever bought but do not buy it on amazon.com. you can usally get it for less money at a store such as best buy or circut city for about $14.