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Bananarama

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 2007)
• Original Release Date: March 19, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Rhino/Wea UK
• ASIN: B000N2G1GC
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #74,594 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of this 1987 album by the most successful British girl group in Pop history featuring seven bonus tracks: 'Clean Cut Boy' (Party Size), 'Mr. Sleaze', 'Ecstasy (Wild Style)', 'Nathan Jones' (Psycho Seven Inch Edit), 'I Want You Back' (Single Version), 'Amnesia (The Roxy Theme)' and 'Nathan Jones' (Single Version). WOW! was the final Bananarama album to feature founding member Soibhan Fahey, who left the band and formed Shakespeare's Sister. 17 tracks total including the hits 'I Heard A Rumour', 'Love In The First Degree' and more. Warner.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars expanded--yet EDITED songs from original pressing!, September 12, 2007

By	Daniel W. Kelly (Long Island, NY United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Well, if you already have the original US pressing of this CD, you're in for a little shock here. Sure, it has a bunch of remixes and bonus tracks, but in order to cram those songs onto here, they have taken the 12" versions of Some Girls and Strike it Rich and edited them! Some Girls is now a little over 4 minutes verses its near 6 minute version, and Strike it Rich has gone from 6 minutes to under 3 minutes!!! Oh well, guess I'll be keeping two versions of this CD. For those who are wondering, The reissues of Deep Sea Skiving, Bananarama and True Confessions do NOT edit any of the original songs, yet still manage to squeeze on a load of bonus tracks.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow id Right., June 6, 2009

By	Jeffrey S. Weatherill "Jeffrey" (NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a really great album. There's strong songs, writing, vocals, videos, and Sex!
Great songs like "Love in The First Degree", "I Can't Help It", "I Want You Back", "Nathan Jones", "I Heard A Rumor" and really all the rest. Many songs here became hits for the group, whether it was the album version or a dance mix. You can't go wrong with this lp if you're looking for a great Bananarama cd. It's close to a greatest hits lp.

1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing like the first 3 CD's, April 16, 2009

By	kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

IF YOU LIKE LIGHT DISCO POP FROM THE LATE EIGHTIES, ESPECIALLY DEAD OR ALIVE, THAN YOU WILL LOVE THIS CD. THIS IS MORE OF A PRODUCERS ALBUM THAN A GROUP ALBUM.

Released in 1987, this is Bananarama's fourth album (not their third as others have said). It is 42 minutes long and the sound quality is pretty good but not excellent.

This is one of those CD's that is more influenced by the producers than it is by the group. This is not like previous Bananarama albums.

The CD was produced by the disco producing team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. It sounds just like any of their other disco CD's from the late eighties, especially Dead or Alive. This is cookie cutter, by-the-numbers fluff. It could be anybody singing the songs and it wouldn't make any difference.

The music is light, fluffy drivel. The lyrics are love songs (Guilty of Love in the First Degree) targetted at teenage girls. There is no emotion or interest in the music.

Bananarama's talent is really wasted on this CD. The songs are sung in a boring, straight ahead manner. It could be anyone singing the songs. It rarely features the overlapping styles or the playing off of each other.

The only good song on this CD is the R&B classic, Nathan Jones. This song goes back to the older Bananarama releases and shows how good the band can really be.

This British version of disco pop was very popular for about two years, but quickly died by 1988. Groups like Dead or Alive had million sellers one ablum, and the very next album wouldn't even chart.

NOTE THAT THERE ARE OTHER VERSIONS OF THIS CD BONUS TRACKS WITH FEWER TRACKS, BUT INCLUDE THE DANCE MIXES OF SOME SONGS.