Hit Parade 1

The Wedding Present | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 18, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Manifesto Records
• ASIN: B000005DDT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,057 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blue Eyes

2. Cattle and Cane

3. Go-Go Dancer

4. Don't Cry No Tears

5. Three

6. Think That It Might

7. Silver Shorts

8. Falling

9. Come Play With Me

10. Pleasant Valley Sunday

11. California

12. Let's Make Some Plans

Editorial Reviews

The first six of twelve singles released in 1992, one per month during that year. Six originals and six covers. 12 tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wear your silver shorts today, April 26, 2006

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Stargrazer "the lost mixtape of my life" (deep in the heart of Michigan) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Hit Parade 1 (Audio CD)

The issue here is not the source of the songs -- it's immaterial whether these are from "one single a month" or whether they were conceived whole-cloth. Critics tend to get bogged down in the backstory of albums.

Just put the CD in your player, press play, and listen. THEN judge. Simple!

You'll find songs that race along a little faster than Seamonsters, by turns sunnier or scrubbier (as befits a singles collection) than that pleasing dirge of an album. And there's a bunch of intriguing/oddball covers (Julee Cruise? Neil Young??), a few of which might even slip by casual listeners unnoticed.

This one is an ideal Wedding Present album for summer drives or late mornings, ably demonstrating the band's ability to have fun.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great singles on a great compliation, July 29, 1998

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Michael Gonsiska - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hit Parade 1 (Audio CD)

The Weddos took a beating for releasing a single-a-month from the music press, but this complition of the first 6 singles proves to everyone they rised to the challenge and prevailed. The first six songs are written by the Wedding Present, they are thrilling, load guitar rock. The extra joy of the CD is the songs they cover and how they interupt them. They range from Neil Young to Julie Cruise to The Monkees.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, I'm surprised to see this here..., November 20, 2000

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Yuri Kuzyk (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hit Parade 1 (Audio CD)

And even more surprised to see some reviews...

I think Gedge has crafted some amazing lyrics, best exemplified on "Blue Eyes" and "Three", in the typical boy-girl relationship breakup theme. I also really enjoy the jangly-guitar-with-feedback style of their music.

This stands alone as one of the finer moments of early 90's angsty new-wave-alternative genres.