British Invasion

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B0000488SQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #773,003 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. One Thing Leads to Another

2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

3. Hungry Like the Wolf

4. Eyes Without a Face

5. Come Dancing

6. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

7. I Ran (So Far Away)

8. Lay Your Hands on Me

9. I Wanna Be Adored

10. Never Gonna Give You Up

11. Just Got Lucky

12. Time

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING! These are NOT originals-they are REMAKES, September 16, 2009

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R. Barnes "Music Collector/Science Fiction Re... (Greenwood, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: British Invasion (MP3 Download)

On this CD, a word of caution...these are not original recordings but remakes, they are not the hits of the radio you remember. It would be nice if they bothered to mention it. It's rather obvious once you listen to the tracks. There are many CD's out there with the ORIGINAL recordings, I would go for those. The price isn't that much different. I am a record collector, so I am speaking from experience.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars British Invasion is awesome and affordable!!, September 9, 2000

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Tony Tamayo (Austin, Tx. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: British Invasion (Audio CD)

One of my favorite songs and videos from 1983 was "Come Dancing" by the Kinks. I really loved the different kinds of instruments used in that particular song. I recently heard it again on the radio during a retrospective salute to the music of the 1980's. I decided to try and find a CD that had "Come Dancing" along with some other '80's hits from my youth. I discovered the album "British Invasion" and purchased it right away. To my delight, the album had all original recordings of those wonderful songs that reminded me of how I used to be a huge MTV fan. The album was full of memories for me!! Besides "Come Dancing," it has such standard early MTV artists like Duran Duran(Hungry Like the Wolf), Billy Idol(Eyes Without a Face),and Eurythmics(Sweet Dreams.) This a great album and I was really surprised at the low price. You get twelve great songs for under $10!! The best part is that all the songs are all the original recordings. Just like I remember them.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre remakes of `60s-80s British hits, February 6, 2010

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: British Invasion (MP3 Download)

Like so many other MP3 oldies collections flooding the market, this one is populated almost entirely by remakes. A few make a reasonable pass at the original tone, style and arrangement, but many more are appallingly mediocre imitations. In some cases it's difficult to tell whether the original artists are even involved in the re-recording, such as a deep-voiced remake of "I'm Henry the VIII, I Am" which may or may not have Peter Noone singing. In other cases the credits are honest enough to credit "Sweet's Brian Connolly" rather than The Sweet, "The Glitter Band" rather than Gary Glitter, and Denny Laine rather than The Moody Blues.

The differences from the originals are usually quite easy to spot, such as the stomping modern production of "Sunshine Superman," the cheesy organ introducing "United We Stand," and the tired vocal on "Magic." Ironically, the album's most-difficult-to-license artist, the Beatles, appear to be presented in their original pre-Capitol recordings with Tony Sheridan. Another oddity of this collection is that it stretches well past the original mid-60s British Invasion to remakes of `70s and `80s hits by the Sweet, Level 42 and Maxine Nightingale. You're better off finding a collection of original recordings, such as Hip-O's Gold: British Invasion or Rhino's out-of-print nine-volume series The British Invasion: History of British Rock, and treating yourself to the real thing. [©2010 hyperbolium dot com]