Destiny: The Hits [Import]

Altered Images | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B0000C5RQH
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,509,882 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Happy Birthday (Intro)

2. Dead Pop Stars

3. Insects

4. Love & Kisses

5. Happy Birthday

6. A Days Wait

7. Small Without Me

8. I Could Be Happy

9. See Those Eyes

10. Pinky Blue

11. Forgotten

12. Don't Talk to Me About Love

13. Love to Stay

14. Change of Heart

15. Bring Me Closer

16. Las Vegas Lullaby

17. I Could Be Happy [Martin Rushent Remix]

18. Happy Birthday (Outro)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clare & the Boys!!!, December 3, 2003

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Glenn S. Hawley "glenn with 2 'n's" (NEW YORK, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Destiny: The Hits (Audio CD)

Excellent Career Retrospective with 2 new Tracks ("Small without Me" [GREAT!] & Las Vegas Lullaby [So Sweet] The domestic collection Just did Not do this Group Justice. I never listened to it Like I am this one. Time after Time I keep going back To this GREAT collection. Culled from singles & three lps, no Pop collection is Complete without it! No Domestic Release either. Pay that extra Bit, 'cause its Worth it!
DVD Collection Next & full LP CD reissues!

4.0 out of 5 stars Maybe swim a mile down the Nile?, January 28, 2012

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Crookedmouth "(Son of Olaf)" (Jolly old Blighty, wot wot.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Destiny the Hits (Audio CD)

Oh! such strong recollections of my yoof, lying in bed at midnight listening to John Peel on my scratchy, badly-tuned clock radio. For some reason it was always summer and perhaps that's because he frequently played The Altered Images: if ever there was a band that sounded like the summer, it was this lot. Of course so much of that is down to Clare Grogan's extremely distinctive voice; sometimes she sounds like a 5 year old - sweet, pure, even surprised and sometimes much more grown up - dreamy and sexy - but always fresh and warm.

The Images pretty much define the bubblegum pop genre (well, I reckon they do, anyway) and that's fair enough; the music is archetypally poppy, up-beat and bouncy (Happy Birthday, I Could Be Happy, Pinky Blue). Occasionally however, you get something a little more "serious", so Don't Talk and Change of Heart cross over into the realm of the dreamy, pop love-ballad. Suffice to say that, as a hormonally challenged, spotty-faced, midnight-radio-listening little teen, those last two spoke to me in ways that.. well, just "in ways".

This is a fantastic collection and it includes some stuff that I hadn't heard before (having grown out of this sort of thing once my hormones had settled down and my pimples had receded). If I have a criticism, it's that there's almost too much on here; certainly the early bubblegum stuff is quite rich listening and is best served in moderation. Another criticism is that the album doesn't have Song Sung Blue! How can that be? The story was that John Peel had contributed to the whistling chorus on that one. In any case, Clare did it so much better than Neil Diamond - she's better looking, at least.

I was, for years, devastated that Clare never agreed to marry me. That I never asked is my one true regret in life.