CD Details
- Released: May 17, 1999
- Label: EMI Europe
Tracks:
- 1.Walking on Sunshine
- 2.Red Wine & Whisky
- 3.Do You Want Crying
- 4.Que to Quiero
- 5.Going Down to Liverpool
- 6.Machine Gun Smith
- 7.Mexico
- 8.Game of Love
- 9.Is That It?
- 10.Tears For Me
- 11.Sun Street
- 12.Lovely Lindsey
- 13.I Can Dream About It
- 14.That's the Way
- 15.Rock 'N' Roll Girl
- 16.(I've Got A) Crush on You
- 17.Rock Myself to Sleep
- 18.Tears of a Woman
- 19.I Really Taught Me to Wat
Product Description:
This Katrina and the Waves retrospective collects the pop group's essential hit "Walking on Sunshine" and 18 other tracks.
Personnel: Kimberley Rew (vocals, guitar); Alex Cooper (vocals, drums); Katrina Leskanich (vocals); Nick Glennie-Smith (organ, keyboards); Alan Chaney (organ); Wendy Nicholl (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Jay Burnett; Nigel Green; Scott Litt; Stephen Stewart; Ted Hayton.
Recording information: AK; Brook House, Suffolk, England; Goodluck Studio, England; Greenhouse Studios, London, England; The Lodge, Clare, England; Utopia, London, England; West Side, London, England.
The only real problem with One Way Records' anthology on Katrina & the Waves is that it gives too much room to their first Capitol album (which ought to be out as a free-standing CD) and not enough to their later material. Anyone seeking to go further should track down this imported disc. Thanks to EMI's acquisition of the SBK label, for which the band recorded in 1989, and its merger with Virgin Records, for which the Waves recorded in the early '90s in Germany, this collection has a little range and depth, although it's still just a greatest-hits collection -- if it were a best-of, it would also have to include some of their Attic Records sides from before their signing to Capitol. In addition to the eight songs off of the first Capitol album, there are four more off of Waves, including "Lovely Lindsey" (the one glaring gap in the One Way release). And then there's everything else -- "I Can Dream About It"; in all of its soaring glory, the soulful "That's the Way"; the group-authored catchy, frantic "Rock 'N' Roll Girl"; the smoldering "I've Got a Crush on You"; and the roaring "Rock Myself to Sleep," all from Break of Hearts (1989); and from the group's 1990s German output, "Tears of a Woman" and "I Really Taught Me to Watusi." The latter two, although not in a league with the group's best work of the prior decade, proves that they were still generating serious music. The sound is excellent and the annotation is thorough right up through 1997, which was the year of their sudden commercial resurgence. ~ Bruce Eder
