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 enlarge | Artist: Swing Out Sister
Label: Polygram UK
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 85776
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766486807624
EAN: 0766486807624
ASIN: B000058DFW
Release Date: July 2, 2001
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 Where's the rest? February 28, 2008
I love Swingout Sister ever since I was a little girl in Oakland...this cd is missing some of their best songs! Kaleidoscope World is barely represented. I suggest buying 3 or 4 of their cds to have a complete collection. And the Millenium(sp) collection's even worse! I don't have either of their "Best Of" cds and I'm glad b/c I'd be very very dissapointed.
 Another Lost Weekend December 14, 2007
I can't believe I just stumbled across Another Lost Weekend. As a huge fan having caught the anaheim & san francisco gigs on their last u.s. tour I've again fallen in love with SOS. This is an awesome collection for those who are returning to or have just been introduced to Swing Out Sister. Having all of their cd's with few exceptions, the essence of their body of work is touched upon and you're hooked. You won't be disappointed.
 Stick with "It's Better to Travel" October 26, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There already is a 'best of' Swing Out Sister: It's called It's Better to Travel, their first album. Nothing will ever top it. Every track on it is a winner. I drove that cassette tape into the ground. By comparison, nothing here in this compilation outside of the tracks culled from that debut album will stick with you. It's pleasant enough stuff, but nothing like the catchy hooks from 'Travel' - 20 years on, those tunes stick with you in the most delightful way.
When I listen to Swing out Sister February 21, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I get the sensation of the wind in my hair as I downshift my powder-blue Jaguar convert climbing the British country hillsides. A mini-skirted mod girl to my left smiles underneath her Jackie-O sunglasses. Driving up, I take a space between an Austin Healey and a group of pastel Vespa scooters. At the party in the most elegantly understated of villas is a very black haired debonaire Sean Connery charming none other than Anne Margaret. I spy Emma Peel in her catsuit, and Andy Warhol drinking in the scene and his Madeira. Barbara Feldon is laughing over her cocktail and Hors d'oeuvres at Sid Caesar's antics. Sunshine glints across the pool, and everyone turns as Corinne Drewery clears her throat and Andy Connell gives her her pitch...
I gave in to Amazon's insistance that people who liked Basia also like Swing out Sister. OK, but there are big differences. Give any student of progressive jazz any recording of Basia with Matt Bianco and they will be blown away. The chord progressions, rythmn, and sophistication of the music is a delight. Matt Bianco is a musician's musician.
Swing out Sister is studio music. The synth stuff doesn't work well on a good system. You Ipod lovers won't notice. No wonder their live stuff sounds thin. They overtrack, overdub, and synthesize their way to a very big sound. It actually sounds close to real in the Where our Love Grows release, but in the tracks from the 80s, it is glaringly artificial. But then, I have a 10k high definition stereo. Never mind.
That said, I love this music. It is danceable, uplifting and addictive. I'll take Corinne's voice over Basia--more pleasant. It takes a certain taste. If you like the samples buy and you'll feel like you've made a great discovery, and you have.
 Where's Waiting Game? November 21, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
How can they release a Best of without including 'Waiting Game'?!! Some of these records companies suck. I'm glad illegal downloading is eating away at their profits, especially when they make such glaring omissions. Karma's a biatch, ain't it?
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