From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology [Box set] [Import]

Product Description
3 CD retrospective of Kristy's work between 1979 and 2000. Contains all her singles & unreleased tracks including demos from the family archive. EMI. 2005.

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From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology [Box set] [Import]

Average customer rating: Half Perfection, Half Bubblegum Original & Fun Miss her... Miss her... A loving tribute to a great artist

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Tracks:

1. They Don't Know
2. You Caught Me Out
3. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
4. There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swear's He Elvis
5. Hard To Believe
6. See That Girl
7. Queen Of The High Teas
8. I Want Out
9. You Still Believe In Me
10. Rhythm Of The Real Thing
11. Berlin
12. Camel Crossing
13. Roman Gardens
14. Sticked And Stoned
15. Terry
16. A New England
17. Patrick
18. He's On The Beach
19. Innocence (Single Remix)
20. Don't Come The Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim
21. Closer To God
22. Fairytale Of New York

Tracks:

1. Free World
2. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
3. Tread Lightly
4. The End Of A Perfect Day
5. Mother's Ruin
6. Dancing In Limbo
7. Days
8. Still Life
9. Clubland
10. Other People's Hearts
11. Don't Run Away From Me Now
12. Please Help Me, I'm Falling
13. Miss Otis Regrets/Just One Of Those Things
14. All The Tears That I Cried
15. Walking Down Madison
16. London Bridge Is Falling Down
17. My Affair
18. All I Ever Wanted (Re-Recorded Single Version)
19. Halloween
20. We'll Never Pass This Way Again
21. Count On Me (Demo)
22. Dear John (Demo)

Tracks:

1. Angel
2. Soho Square
3. Bad
4. Can't Stop Killing You
5. Titanic Days (Single Edit)
6. Tomorrow Never Comes
7. Caroline
8. I Am Afraid
9. The Butcher Boy
10. As Long As You Hold Me
11. Perfect Day
12. Sail Away
13. Libertango
14. Golden Heart
15. Mambo De La Luna (Single Edit)
16. In These Shoes?
17. England 2 Columbia 0
18. Celestine
19. Good For Me
20. Manhatten Moon
21. Sun On The Water (Demo)

Album Description

3 CD retrospective of Kristy's work between 1979 and 2000. Contains all her singles & unreleased tracks including demos from the family archive. EMI. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

Half Perfection, Half Bubblegum.......2007-01-12

Because I love Tropical Brainstorm so much, I wanted more of Kirsty MacColl's music. Don't bother with this 2-disk album. Half of this album is most of Tropical Brainstorm, but not all of it. The other half is Kirsty's earliest music, which is bubblegum pop. Very disappointing. I would give the Tropical Brainstorm portion of this album 5 stars, and I would give the other stuff 1 star. That's how I came up with my overall 3-Star rating. But buy Tropical Brainstorm instead. And if you have and love Tropical Brainstorm and want more of Kirsty's flawless, sultry voice, buy something other than this Anthology.

Original & Fun.......2007-01-04

The music is fun and original. Definitely recommend. Fresh, funny, moving and a Latin beat to boot.

Miss her..........2006-02-27

Great talent...then and now. Never understood whe "He's on the Beach" wasn't a smash hit...one of my alltime favorites...perhaps just ahead of her time. This compilation will satisfy anyone who enjoys fresh music, as it is pretty certain you haven't heard most of this on the radio (if you have, please let me know where you live)...Buy it and enjoy.

Miss her..........2006-02-27

Great talent...then and now. Never understood why "He's on the Beach" wasn't a smash hit...one of my alltime favorites...perhaps just ahead of her time. This compilation will satisfy anyone who enjoys fresh music, as it is pretty certain you haven't heard most of this on the radio (if you have, please let me know where you live)...Buy it and enjoy.

A loving tribute to a great artist.......2005-12-19

What was not to like about Kirsty MacColl? The late British singer-songwriter -- perhaps best known Stateside as the lass who sings on the 1987 holiday classic "Fairytale of New York" by Irish rockers the Pogues -- was a fine interpreter of diverse, well-chosen cover material; and she showed impressive emotional and musical range her own clever, catchy compositions. Her sweet, pliable voice made her toughest sentiments more palatable without diminishing their power; and she often used vocal-layering techniques to create Beach Boys-like harmonies from just her own singing. In 2005, perhaps with the 5th anniversary of MacColl's untimely death (in a boating accident in December of 2000) in mind, the label EMI/Virgin paid its respects to this great, if under-appreciated, artist with the lavish 3-disc, 65-track anthology From Croydon To Cuba.

Disc #1 takes us from the retro girl-group, pub-rock, and rockabilly styles of Kirsty's early recordings (including her 1979 debut single, "They Don't Know," and such tracks as "Hard to Believe" and "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" from her 1981 debut album, Desperate Character), to her brief adoption of a more contemporary synth-pop sound (on tracks like "Berlin" and "Roman Gardens" from her shelved 1983 sophomore effort, Real), to the biting Brit-pop of her 1989 comeback album Kite. Disc #2 includes more singles and choice cuts from Kite, as well as material from her warmer and more musically diverse 1991 album, Electric Landlady; MacColl's writing matured profoundly during this time, in her meditations on relationships ("Dancing in Limbo," "We'll Never Pass This Way Again," etc.) and in her more socially-aware songs (like the punkish "Free World" and the dance-oriented "Walking Down Madison"). Disc #3 largely covers her last two studio albums, 1993's Titanic Days and 2000's Tropical Brainstorm: TD followed the breakup of Kirsty's longtime marriage to producer Steve Lillywhite, hence the dark tone of such tunes as the poignant "Tomorrow Never Comes" and the menacing "Can't Stop Killing You"; the more upbeat tunes from the Latin-flavored TB, such as the fun singles "Mambo de la Luna" and "In These Shoes?", were inspired by her sincere, growing interest in the culture and music of Cuba and Brazil.

Scattered throughout the 3 discs are plenty of rare and previously unreleased goodies. Several of MacColl's early-'80s recordings make their first appearance on CD here, such as her gorgeous Beach Boys cover "You Still Believe In Me." The 6 Kite-era B-sides -- especially "Closer to God," an attack on the religious hypocrisy of a faithless lover; the stark "Still Life," another song deftly combining political and personal matters; and the countryish "Don't Run Away From Me Now," which stresses the importance of family loyalty in times of crisis -- are as strong as the tracks that actually made it onto that gem of an album. And although Kirsty didn't release much new material during the latter half of the '90s, a few swell rarities from this period, such as a pretty cover of Randy Newman's "Sail Away," have been included. Among the half-dozen exquisite demos and outtakes here, particularly interesting are the final two -- the showtune-y "Manhattan Moon" (written by former Pogues member Philip Chevron) and the self-penned soft-rock ballad "Sun on the Water" -- which hint at new directions MacColl's music was taking at the time of her demise.

The track-by-track liner notes often mention the commercial failures and record label woes that beset Kirsty throughout her career; but on the whole, From Croydon To Cuba makes a strong argument for why she deserved so much more success than she actually got. This collection serves as a fitting tribute to the intelligent, resilient, outspoken, funny, charming, honest, kind, passionate, and utterly unique lady MacColl was, and as an extensive showcase of her talents.

P.S.: FCTC (like EMI/Virgin's expanded 2005 reissues of Kite and Electric Landlady, and ZTT's 2-disc deluxe 2005 reissue of Titanic Days) is available in North America only as an import -- which is a shame, since I think the material on these discs should be required listening for every female artist in mainstream country, rock, and pop.

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