Collection

love it!

great condition. plays well. Great collection spanning Terry's whole career

I love several songs on this disc. The specials music holds up quite well and terry hall has a very good voice.

Too many good things have been said about Terry Hall, especially his achievements on the album "Virgins & Philistines" from his band "The Colourfield" back in the 80's. This guy is really versatile in various music genres in the 80's. What amazes me most is that you actually get to enjoy these songs after more than 20 years. I'm not just saying it. Try the tracks like "Thinking of You" or "Castles in the Air" and you'll know what I'm talking about. I gotta hand it to the British that they have singers like Terry Hall, Morrissey, or Lloyd Cole. But shame on the record company that's so stupid to not reissue the album "Virgins & Philistines". So, I guess this is the best CD we can get from Terry so far, before the reissue of "Virgins & Philistines".

This is an album to keep, a collection of witty & emotional songs you wish you've written yourself. Terry Hall makes beautiful music, too bad he isn't as famous as he should be. I wish there will be a Collections 2, with the songs Confession and Sorry in it.

Terry Hall has a resume that would make a modest artist blush. He's been a hitmaker with such influential bands as The Specials, Fun Boy Three and Colourfield. Any one of those bands would have been enough to merit a special place in history, but Hall was a driving force in all three. With The Specials, Hall was part of one the most biting commentary pop songs of the 80's with "Ghost Town." While The Specials (along with The English Beat) were probably the finest of the two-tone bands, "Ghost Town" is song that defines the movement and its time. Of course, just as The Specials were reaching their peak commercial success, Hall left the band for the usual artistic differences. He promptly organized the avant-garde trio Fun Boy Three, who scored with the monotone three-part vocals in "Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)." Hall is also partially responsible for introducing the world to Bannanarama and The Go-Go's. The former added their harmonies to "It Ain't What You Do" and the latter - after hearing the The Go-Go's during a UK tour with two-tone hitmakers Madness, Hall co wrote "Our Lips Are Sealed" with Jane Wiedlin, the ladies sped the song up from "Waiting's" laconic version and made it their first American hit. As the David Byrne (Talking Heads) produced album "Waiting" yielded more UK singles and appeared ready to break the band in America, Hall again disbanded his current band and formed Colourfield. A sharp turn from the more experimental tone of his prior two bands, "Take" and "Thinking Of You" are the most melodic and unironic songs Hall had ever preformed. If you were looking for signs of his previous life, the remake of The Monkees' hit "She" (from Colourfield's second CD, "Deception") provided that. But the great "Virgins and Philistines" album ranks up there with some of the best of the 80's new wave (think Echo and The Bunnymen or Teardrop Explodes). Once again, two albums into their career The Colourfield imploded. The following project, Terry, Blair and Anouchka, really wasn't much to write home about, the did have a few interesting songs on "Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes." It was rich in kitsch, and the cheesy pseudo-lounge music behind lyrics like "hap-happier times, everything's groovy" were too clever for their own good. Those are the weakest three songs here. Hall did eventually rebound; this CD was released before 1995's "Home," a solid return to melodic form. Still, any CD that contains music as rich and diverse as "Ghost Town," "Lunatics" and "From Dawn To Distraction" is worth hearing. Your need to own it depends on how much fondness you have for the 80's...or if you were a college radio fan during a time when that meant going deep into albums like Terry Hall's.

I love every track the man was a genus

As most reviewers have commented, it's good to hear these songs again. This is one of the best collections so far. My favourite track has got to be the classic 'Ghost Town'. Terry Hall, Fun Boy Three and Colourfield form a big part of my musical life 👍

I already have this album but my copy was damaged. I replaced it and I am as happy, if not more with the quality of the album. A really great selection of his catalogue. A real pick me up when i am missing my roots.

terry hall was the lead-singer from the specials (2tone birmingham band) who had chart success then bust up. so he went solo and had further chart singles which are all on this Cd.

Brilliant cd.