Big Smash [Import, Original recording remastered]

Wreckless Eric | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 13, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Ztt UK
• ASIN: B000KZRKMQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #764,874 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Popsong

2. Tonight (Is My Night)

3. Too Busy

4. Broken Doll

5. Can I Be Your Hero?

6. Back in My Hometown

7. It'll Soon Be the Weekend

8. Strange Towns

9. Excuse Me

10. Break My Mind

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Whole Wide World

2. Take the Cash (K.A.S. H)

3. Let's Go to the Pictures

4. Walking on the Surface of the Moon

5. Hit and Miss Judy

6. I Wish It Would Rain

7. Reconnez Cherie

8. Veronica

9. Brain Thieves

10. Semaphore Signals

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars when will there be a retrospective that does eric justice?, June 24, 2007

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Jon Stratton (Perth, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Smash (Reis) (Dlx) (Audio CD)

This is the Wreckless Eric's third album plus the compilation from his first two albums originally released in the US in 1979 as Whole Wide World. According to Eric's website the album plus compilatiion were first released together in 1980. My gripe is that the compilation takes many more tracks from the second of Eric's releases than the first. The second album is much 'cleaner' and more 'professional' than the first and lacks much of the first's glorious idiosyncracy. In a word, Eric's first album was in the great tradition of English eccentricity--plus it had some great rock'n'roll on it and songs with wonderful hooks. Certainly the compilation includes the stand-outs 'Reconnez Cherie' and 'Whole Wide World' but the almost equally good, but weirder, 'Telephoning Home', 'Personal Hygiene', 'Grown Ups' and 'Waxworks' were left off, as was Eric's version of Ian Dury's 'Rough Kids'.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have so much Wreckless Eric available on CD at last but, please, let's treat this great English eccentric rock'n'roller to the quality retrospective he deserves!