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The Essential Adam Ant Reviews
The Essential Adam Ant Reviews
| 36 of 37 people found the following review helpful  "Don't Drink. Don't Smoke. What Do You Do?", By The Groove (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Essential Adam Ant (Audio CD) Confessing that you like Adam Ant still won't win you credibility points in a few elite circles, but the truth remains that he was one of pop music's most vibrant figures in the last 25 years. Often a collaboration with guitarist Marco Pirroni, the music of Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard) was a hybrid of punk rock, African tribal rhythms, and pop sensibilities that dominated the UK charts for much of the early 1980s. And though his popularity waned by the release of 1985's flop "Vive Le Rock," fans were still humming to many of his hits. Speaking of hits, "Essential Adam Ant" is a collection of his work from 1979 right up to 1995's "Wonderful." Digitally remastered for superior sound, these hits give me back some fond memories of the good old days. The most familiar track is the Top 20 hit "Goody Two Shoes," but there are other fun tunes like "Stand and Deliver," "Desperate but Not Serious," and the Phil Collins-produced "Strip." While the previous compilation "Antics in... Read more 12 of 13 people found the following review helpful Nice remastering but omits a few essentials songs, By This review is from: Essential Adam Ant (Audio CD) For the individual who just "likes" Adam and is not an Antmaniac this maks for a nifty purchase (as do a great deal from the desperate "Essential" series). However there are a couple of head-scratchers in terms of song selection and omissions from the collection. The inclusion of "Physical (You're So)" is a bit questionable seeing as "Cartrouble" (a classic catchy single featuring the debut of Marco) should have been neatly placed after "Zerox" and "Vive Le Rock" (a record company error made this should-have-been-hit single exactly that) should have been sequenced after "Apollo 9". However neither of these singles are included here and are somewhat important in presenting a complete, accurate and essential Ant collection.Later period Adam songs like "Room At The Top" and "Wonderful" are lone representations of the albums they were culled from. Perhaps other singles from these albums ("Can't Set Rules About Love", "Rough Stuff", "Gotta Be A Sin" and "Beautiful Dream") would... Read more 10 of 11 people found the following review helpful It's no "Antics in the Forbidden Zone", This review is from: Essential Adam Ant (Audio CD) I'm really not sure what the purpose of this Disc is, other than as an Adam Ant filler for those collectors who need to add more to their collection. This is a slightly scaled down version of the truly best of "Antics in the Forbidden Zone" which detailed Adam Ant's career up until the bombastic "Apollo 9" album. "Essential" adds the 1990 single "Room at the Top" from "Manners & Physique" album and "Wonderful" from the 1995 "Wonderful" album. These two songs are not really worth the cost of admission and I think are probably the weakest songs on those two albums, anyway. And of course "Essential" ignores the unreleased 1993 album "Persuasion" which had some really good songs on it. If you want later period Adam Ant, "Manners" is really good and "Wonderful" is, well, less than wonderful, but still a worthwhile Adam Ant. If you want an introduction to Adam Ant, the chronologically catalogued "Antics" is great and a more complete collection! |
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