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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great place to start...., November 3, 2000
By A Customer
If you want just one album by the Romantics this is the one to get. The big hits are here ("What I Like About You", "Talking In Your Sleep"), along with a couple of classic album tracks ("Tell it to Carrie"), and tracks that are now unavailable elsewhere ("A Night Like This", "Test of Time"). It's a great overview. The selected tracks carefully included songs from each of the Romantics albums. Given their frequent line-up changes and the uneven quality of some albums, not ALL of the songs are winners, however, bad Romantics tracks are still better than most bands of the era. Play it loud...
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
fidelity is lacking, not a good quality recording, September 7, 2005
I just got this in the mail today. I hate to say it, but the fidelity on this CD is, while not awful, still noticeably inferior. I have the single "What I Like About You" on a various artists' CD called "Ultimate New Wave Party 1998" (unfortunately mixed), so I bought the Romantics' Greatest Hits album to get a "clean" copy of the track. Comparing the track on the two sources, the copy on the mixed CD simply blows away the copy on the romantics CD, on the fidelity issue. It may not be too noticeable if you just have this copy, but you will notice when comparing with other CDs in your collection. Perhaps it is that the CD was issued in 1990 and is not remastered. Well, obviously there is a better fidelity version out there somewhere, so if you want decent fidelity, you might take a crack at one of the other Romantics' selections further down the page, and spend a bit more money (they may, or may not, be better).
(written a bit later) If you're just looking for "What I Like About You," then a CD called "Sedated in the 80s" (Vol. 1) has this with decent fidelity along with a number of other interesting tracks. It is pretty cheap. If you also want "Talking in Your Sleep," then Billboard Top Hits 1984 has that with good fidelity (usually very cheap CD). Happy Searching!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Very Best of The Romantics! Great compilation!!!!, May 26, 2002
This CD features all of the The Romantics' hit songs, 2 of which were heard, in heavy rotation over the radio waves, during the mid 80's! Most notably, these 2 songs stand out as their biggest hits of their brief career. You can't help but tap your foot, or break out the air harmonica when listening to their 1st blockbuster hit: What I Like About You....it just happens; it's an infectious song! Their 2nd big hit: Talking In Your Sleep, is a slow grooving R&B rocker which did very well on the charts , as well! Both of these songs were shown as music videos, as so many 80's bands utilized, to promote their records on MTV. The rest of the songs on this compilation were minor hits, but are worthy of listening to without giving the listener the urge to skip tracks....it's all good! Rock You Up is a great upbeat rocker, which didn't get the radio play, that it deserved. I would highly recommend this CD to the dedicated 80's music fan....I was and still am one! Get it today, dudes!
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