T'Pau - Greatest Hits [Import]

T'Pau | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 9, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000025178
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,446 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. China In Your Hand

2. Heart And Soul

3. Valentine

4. Only A Heartbeat

5. Whenever You Need Me

6. Secret Garden

7. Sex Talk

8. Road To Our Dream

9. This Girl

10. Only The Lonely

11. Bridge Of Spies

12. I Will Be With You

13. No Sense Of Pride

14. Strange Place

15. Hold On To Love

16. The Promise

17. A Place In My Heart

Editorial Reviews

1998 compilation from the British pop-anthem outfit features 17 tracks of dramatic, over-produced, new wave tunes loaded with catchy, addictive hooks, including the worldwide hit 'Heart & Soul'. Virgin.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the collection you're looking for., February 23, 2007

By 

Danaphile "music lover" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: T'Pau - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

T'Pau is the perfect example of a group that caught on in Europe but never made much of an impression in the U.S., which is a real shame. This would easily have to be the greatest pop music that I didn't discover until after its time had passed. This greatest hits package in particular is just loaded with wonderful songs that never got any sort of attention in America.

A Place In My Heart is downright delicious from start to finish. Of the many brilliant songs that I've ever stumbled across by accident, this one is quite possibly my favorite. It reminds me of Roxette's "Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)," except the hooks are even more amazing here. (In fact, Roxette's use of guitar in that song is very similar to many of the songs on this album.)

Rating each of the songs on a scale from 1 to 10, over half of them get either a 9 or a 10 from me:

10/10: Heart And Soul, Bridge Of Spies, Whenever You Need Me, The Promise, and A Place In My Heart

9/10: I Will Be With You, Road To Our Dream, Only The Lonely, Secret Garden, Hold On To Love

8/10: Valentine, Sex Talk, Only A Heartbeat, Strange Place

7/10: No Sense Of Pride

This collection was reissued in 2005 with the exact same songs, a different cover, and a shorter title (Hits). If you missed out on this group the first time around, either of these collections will be a worthwhile investment.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars China in your hand, April 3, 2009

By 

Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
(TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: T'Pau - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Taking their name from a Star Trek character, T'Pau were successful in Britain in the late eighties with several UK hits. Heart and soul, their debut hit, made the top five on both sides of the Atlantic, but the song for which they will be forever remembered (at least in Britain) is China in your hand. It reached the very top of the UK charts and deservedly so. Other hits followed including Valentine, I will be with you, Secret garden and Whenever you need me, all of which made the UK top twenty, but they were unable to write any songs that captured the public imagination as they had done with China in your hand. Carol Decker, the lead singer, has an excellent voice that is very expressive, but her efforts to establish a solo career after the T'Pau hits dried up came to nothing.

This compilation contains the best of their music including all the hit singles except Walk on air (which was such a minor hit that it barely registered on the charts), all recorded between 1987 and 1991. T'Pau re-formed to record another album that was released in 1998, but it didn't revive their career so they disbanded again. Those 1998 tracks aren't represented here, because this compilation was released in 1997.

If you enjoy British pop of the late eighties and early nineties, T'Pau are worthy of your consideration.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Yes, they sang "Heart and Soul", January 9, 2007

By 

Patrick D. Preston "LobVolley" (Lexington, KY) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: T'Pau - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

T'Pau - in America at least, was a one hit wonder in 1987 with the song, "Heart and Soul." I loved it! Still do. Additionally, the song, "China is Your Hand" is great. In my opinion, these are the two stand-out songs on the cd.