Editorial

Still telling it as it is!

Belinda Carlisle The Collection

As much as I love Ms Carlisle, this has to be the worst of her three (yes three) greatest hits/best of compilations!

This mid-price offering is pretty much the worst of a bad bunch of compilations featuring a few hits a few misses and for some reason a few album tracks!

Forgot are tracks form the incredible Real and the terrible A Woman and a Man instead we have a compilation of 80s and 80s style Power Pop anthems that make for a disjointed and one sided look at a solo career which stated promising but sadly went downhill following 96s Woman and a Man.

The Collection is an album for 80s junkies only with nothing for her core audience or her Go-Go's (her sometimes band) audience that even makes you forget that she was capable at times of some inspirational music (see 93s Real)!

There are a a couple of hidden gems in the album in the form of the excellent Valentine (album track from 89s Runaway Horses) and the Charlotte (Go-Go's) co-written We can Change (album track 87s Heaven on Earth).

This aside, The Collection is a shoddy excuse to grab a little more money out of the fans and to add to Belinda's status as the Queen of 80s Power Pop!

Rating: * More of a No-No than a Go-Go!