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Kim Wilde | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Caroline
• ASIN: B00000762B
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,472 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Kim Wilde's First Two Albums, May 23, 2007

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221b BakerSt (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gold Collection (Audio CD)

This compilation is actually Kim Wilde's first two albums, her self-titled debut and "Select," with the tracks resequenced. The only track missing is the full version of the still haunting track "Cambodia," presumably cut for time constraints, as the instrumental reprise is included instead. The original track listings are as follows:

Kim Wilde

1. Water on glass
2. Our town
3. Everything we know
4. Young heroes
5. Kids in America
6. Chequered love
7. 2 6 5 8 0
8. You'll never be so wrong
9. Falling out
10. Tuning in tuning on

Select

1. Ego
2. Words fell down
3. Action city
4. View from a bridge
5. Just a feeling
6. Chaos at the airport
7. Take me tonight
8. Can you come over
9. Wendy Sadd
10. Cambodia
11. Cambodia (Reprise)

[...]
These albums are the reason a teenage version of me was wild about Kim Wilde. Her first single, "Kids In America," was, of course, the reason I picked up the first album in 1981, but I had to get "Select," released the next year, as an import. As much as I love the first album, "Select" is the better release, as she changed direction from the New Wave pop exemplified by that first single to what would become known as synth pop. The album actually holds up much better than her debut, and I think listeners will be a bit startled at how contemporary most of it sounds, as so many bands are mining this era for their own new releases now. The lyrics are an often strange mixture of bubble gum and genuine darkness, but the juxtaposition definitely keeps things interesting. All in all, this is a pretty excellent buy, as you get her debut album AND her classic second album, the latter currently out of print, for the price of one CD. And that makes good financial sense.

5.0 out of 5 stars KIM WILDE'S BEST GREATEST HITS, September 27, 2010

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REDFIRE66 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Gold Collection (Audio CD)

THIS IS A VERY GOOD GREATEST HITS CD.
IT REALLY CAPTURES KIM WILDE THE WAY
SHE WAS IN THE EARLY 80'S.I LOVE THIS CD.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent new wave 80's pop!, January 14, 2007

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Nathan Christian (Pitcairn, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gold Collection (Audio CD)

I always liked Kim Wilde, and I love this cd because is showcases some on the tracks only availble on her album "Select" which is as far as I know, still only availble in vinyl. She went into a sort of new wave techno style after her first release in America that wasn't released in the staes, and this cd has some of that great music. I feel this showcases Kim at her very best, with catchy songs and terrific production. A sound all her own. In her later years in the 90's, she bacame very commercial and sort od bland, but this cd shows just how much fun Kim could be. Oh, and my copy has a different cover than the one pictured here.