PWEI Product 1986-1994: The Pop Will Eat Itself Anthology
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
PWEI Product: 1986-1994 brings together the finest moments of the group--and there are many. From the fuzzy guitar-driven beginnings of "Sick Little Girl" and "Monogamy" to the stunning simplicity of "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" and the infectious romps of "Wise Up Sucker" and "PWEI-zation", there's never a dull moment.
Pop Will Eat Itself, along with the Wonder Stuff, were the figureheads of the grebo movement that came straight out of Birmingham in the early 1990s with long hair, brightly coloured clothing and bouncy tunes. And while the Wonder Stuff got a fiddle player and went all serious, the Poppies got a sampler and became even more stupid, while unwittingly being streets ahead of their time.
They toured with Public Enemy and got bottled offstage, sampled and looped all the popular culture they could get their hands on (Blade Runner, football commentaries, Repo Man, Frank Sinatra…) and developed their own stunning graphics and cartoon characters while the Gorillaz were still either in Blur or designing sleeves for grebo also-rans the Senseless Things. --Helen Marquis
Reviews
Essential
Review date: 2003-10-10 Rating: 10 out of 10
Poppies here in all their glory, surely the most underrated act this country has produced, and one that we should be proud of, pop music in its purest (dirtest), most meaningful, non-manufactured form
Being a graphic designer I'd like to point out Amazons own reviewers glaring error in claiming the Poppies as the minds behind their fantastic sleeve work which was so a part of making the Poppies image so distinct, it was, to those who dared to care, those lairy northern masters The Designers Republic of Sheffield
AT LAST...
Review date: 2002-09-26 Rating: 10 out of 10
"CAN YOU DIG IT?"
At last, a true "Best of..." covering the whole of The Poppies illustrious career. Just looking at the track listing bought the memories flooding back: Waiting outside the record shop to bag the 12" of Sweet Sweet Pie on the day of release, recovering from the shock when they first used a drum machine, sniggering at the words to Beaver Patrol, going to see them on the 'Superpowers' tour in '88 and collecting all those wonderfull shirts...
This "Best Of" seems to have been put together by someone who likes the Poppies and I'm glad to see it isn't heavilly focused on the end of their career which wasn't my favorite era. Highlights for me include Candydiosis, No Love and Dance of the Mad.
Although the die hard fan will have everything here (Surely there must have been something slightly rarer around) this is the first time the whole of their career is in one place. I know I'll end up buying it as I'm sure most fans will. Hopefully the younger fans will learn that there was more to the Poppies than Ski hats and remixes.
To those who may have chanced upon this CD without much knowledge of the Poppies, enjoy it for what it is - a chronical of one of the UK's most original and influential bands who are still sorely missed today.
Product Details/Specifications
Artist(s):
Pop Will Eat Itself
Recording label: Sanctuary
Manufacturer: Sanctuary
EAN: 5050159158928
Binding: Audio CD
Format: Box set,
Release date: 2008-02-26
Universal product code (UPC): 766489374826
Number of discs: 2
Running time: 111 minutes
Disc 1 Tracks:
1. Sick little girl
2. Mesmerized
3. There's a psychopath in my soup
4. Black Country chainstore massacre
5. Monogamy
6. Oh grebo I think I love you
7. Candydiosis
8. Sweet sweet pie
9. Devil inside
10. Love missile F1 11
11. Orgone accumulator
12. Beaver patrol
13. Let's get ugly
14. Grebo guru
15. There is no love between us anymore
16. Def con one
17. Inside you
18. Hit the hi tech groove (live)
Disc 2 Tracks:
1. Can U dig it
2. Poison to the mind
3. Wise up sucker
4. Pweization
5. Touched by the hand of Cicciolina
6. Dance of the mad bastards
7. X Y and Zee
8. 92 degrees (the birth and the death mix)
9. Karmadrome
10. Eat me drink me love me kill me
11. Bulletproof
12. Get the girl kill the baddies
13. RSVP
14. Familius horribilius
15. Ich bin ein Auslander
16. Everything's cool
Publishers: Sanctuary
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