Hits Collection [Import]

Flash & The Pan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 30, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000006YPL
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,164,883 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Hey St. Peter

2. Yesterday's Gone

3. Waiting for a Train

4. Walking in the Rain

5. Something About You

6. Media Man

7. Hey Jimmy

8. Money Don't Lie

9. Down Among the Dead Men

10. Early Morning Wakeup Call

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Hey, St. Peter [7" Radio Edit][*]

2. Hey, St. Peter [The Pearly Gates Mix][*]

3. Hey, St. Peter [Feels Like Hell 12" Remix][*]

4. Waiting for a Train [John Springate's 00 Guage Mix 12][*]

5. Waiting for a Train [The Mapotasi Remix][*]

6. Waiting for a Train [The Flying Scotsman Remix][*]

7. Walking in the Rain [The Swivel Hips Mix][*]

8. Walking in the Rain [The Pleasure & the Pain Mix][*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greate F&P compilation, March 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Hits Collection (Audio CD)

This 2 CD set is a great Flash and the Pan compilation. Disc 1 is the same as the CD "Collection" CD. What's different on this one is the 2nd CD. The 2nd CD contains rare remixes of some of Flash and the Pan's songs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best "Collection", January 7, 2009

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Mr. Scott T. Allen (Naperville, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collection (Audio CD)

Administrative note: Amazon has only one listing for "Collection" while there are evidently U.S. domestic and import versions. I own the U.S. version.

If you're only familiar with "Hey, St. Peter" (their one big hit) I recommend caution with Flash and the Pan. They favored a disco beat and playful songs that lack the edge of Hey, St. Peter. Just buy their eponymous LP (Flash & the Pan) and you'll get 2 other superior songs, Walking in the Rain, and California and may enjoy others.

Now for the typical grousing about a collection: what was left out. You won't even get California on this CD. I own three Flash and the Pan LPs, which is approx. half their output and risked buying this CD to enjoy some new songs. There's some tolerable stuff (Ayla, perhaps) but really found nothing new that appeals.

Choices: Early Morning Wake Up Call is a decent song from the LP with the same title, but I would have selected Look at that Woman Go. Similarly, Media Man and Welcome to the Universe (at nearly 9 minutes long) are inferior selections from the LP "Lights in the Night." I prefer Lights in the Night and Atlantis Calling, and these choices may have allowed inclusion of another song.

Overall, my guess is that disco tunes were favored over slower selections...I even believe the version of Early Morning Wake Up Call on this CD is faster than the original (though I don't have my record player hooked up presently and could be wrong). Again, I'd just buy the CD of their first work (Flash & the Pan) and then, please, give it a chance. This group used an odd combination of synth'd main vocals, an insistent beat, simple background vocals and occasional organ flourishes. Mostly lighthearted music but if it matches your mood it's pretty good. Walking in the Rain is a downbeat song that actually may be their best song, and since it is on this Collection, you could do worse.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flash and the Pan - All of it!, June 25, 2000

By 

M. Alvarez "the_drifter" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hits Collection (Audio CD)

This is a great CD if you don't own some of this group's albums, as is my case. It is the best collection possible. I like some of their songs, and I'm happy to say that they are all in this CD! A great buy! Note: Tracks 16 to 23 are not included in the CD I own, and they look funny in the provided information. My guess is that it's a typo.