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The Best of Goldfinger CD/DVD

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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.

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.

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.

I didn't even know this album was out. I was looking through CDs at a record store and seen it and couldn't believe what I was looking at. Goldfinger sank so low with their last album (which I refuse to mention because I don't even consider it Goldfinger) that they had to release a "Best Of" disc. Granted, the Best-Of is a kick ass album. "Mable", "Here in Your Bedroom", "Superman", and "San Simeon" are all excellent tracks but I don't think Goldfinger needed to release this CD. The first two albums (Goldfinger self-titled and "Hang Ups") are Best-Ofs in themselves. Every song is incredible on those two albums and I could never choose a favorite. "Stomping Ground" had its highlights with songs like "Forgiveness" and "Open Your Eyes" had a few good ones like...Well, the first 6 songs are okay. I would recommend this album to anyone looking into Goldfinger or a long time Goldfinger fan.

Just like "man with a mission" below I had no idea that goldfinger had released a greatest hits album. Of course, i had to buy it when i saw it at the music store. And it's nothing short of great! I love every song on it. I already own 3 other goldfinger albums (including the love it or hate it "disconnection notice," which i loved by the way) Plus there is a bonus dvd included which is awesome. So if you are a fan of goldfinger you should definitely get this, or if you're just getting into them this is a great choice to start with. I also reccommend "Disconnection Notice" even though it is different, its songs are catchy and fairly upbeat.

This cd is great and I'd encourage everyone to buy it but BEWARE there's a Penis(Pen15) on the DVD!!!!!!!!!

Goldfinger have been one of my favorite punk/ska bands ever. Well they were when i was younger. I reccomend this CD mostly because it has all their good songs on 1 cd [ even though it may be leaving out some ]. I reccommend this because most of the times Goldfingers CDs have some fillers. This has no fillers so yay.

1. Here In Your Bedroom 15/10 Their best song ever.
2. Mable 10/10
3. Miles Away N/A dont remember this one
4. Superman 10/10 Loved this song ever since Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1.
5. If Only N/A dont remember this one
6. This Lonely Place N/A dont remember this one
7. Just Like Heaven N/A dont remember this one
8. Counting The Days 10/10 Love this song
9. San Simeon N/A Dont remember this one
10. 99 Red Balloons 10/10
11. Tell Me N/A Dont Remember This One
12. Open Your Eyes 9/10
13. Spokesman 10/10
14. The Innocent
15. Vintage Queen
16. Hopeless
17. Red Balloons- video
18. People?- video

dont remember the rest

get this cd as an intro to goldfinger