The Essential Nik Kershaw [Import]

Nik Kershaw | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 5, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Spectrum Music
• ASIN: B00004U66Z
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,089 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wouldn't It Be Good

2. I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

3. Dancing Girls

4. Riddle

5. Wide Boy

6. Nobody Knows

7. One Step Ahead

8. Human Racing

9. Don Quixote

10. Drum Talk

11. Shame On You

12. Bogart

13. When A Heart Beats

14. Wild Horses

15. Gone To Pieces

16. Radio Musicola

17. Cloak & Dagger

18. Save The Whale

Editorial Reviews

18 track compilation of the 80's rocker's best hits, including "Wouldn't It Be Good", "The Riddle", "Don Quixote", "One Step Ahead", "Human Racing" and many more, taken from his recordings for MCA/Universal Records. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars His very best songs as a singer songwriter and performer, January 4, 2004

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eastbird "eastbird" (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Nik Kershaw (Audio CD)

This is a compilation of Nik Kershaw's best songs. Having been underrated as both a songwriter and performer, these songs give a nice overview of the various hits he's had and the variety of styles in which Nik kershaw can be recognised.
Who doesn't remember megahits like "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "Wouldn't It Be Good", and "Riddle" in their orginal setting? To your surmprise, you may find there's a lot more great Nik Kershaw songs, each of them as original and well produced as all of these near powerpop megasellers.
Although it does't cover songs from his latest CD's, it is good to hear litle masterpieces like "Bogart", "Wild Horses" and especially "Radio Musicola" which shoud be played loud on a solid stereo. The lyrics being what they are, from sometimes endearingly naive to sharply sarcastic, every song is a gem.
If you do not own any of Nik Kershaw's music, this is a very good start. It will get you asking for more. Rest assured, there is lots more on the Nik Kershaw CD's, including his latest ones. Nik Kershaw been one of the finest songwriters and best producers of powerpop material since the middle eighties.
Still very much underrated. This is the proof of the pudding.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nik Kershaw's Back with a new compilation., October 7, 2000

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Pete Seaton (Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset. UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Nik Kershaw (Audio CD)

I saw Nik in concert in Bristol March 1999 and he was brilliant. This is an essential CD for those who follow 80's throwbacks, which I too follow. I have been into nik since his beginning, have all his singles and albums. All these tracks are on the LP's and are a nice addition to the other stuff.

Keep on rocking Nik and we are all looking forward to Wounded and the New album in 2001......

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars same Nik Kershaw from 25 years ago (that's a good thing), June 26, 2010

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Zoe P. (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Essential Nik Kershaw (Audio CD)

These are all of the original songs from the original album (my original "album" was actually a cassette tape, egads). It took me back to the 80's. If you loved Nik then you will love him now.