The Continuing Story of Radar Love

the continuing story of radar love

Track Listings

1. Radar Love

2. Vanilla Queen

3. Candy's Going Bad

4. She Flies on Strange Wings

5. Ce Soir

6. Mad Love's Comin'

7. Leather

8. Clear Night Moonlight

9. Lost and Found

10. Devil Made Me Do It

11. Quiet Eyes

12. Twilight Zone

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The Continuing Story of Radar Love

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ASIN: B000002O6P
Release Date: 1989-10-26

Tracks:

Radar Love
The Vanilla Queen
Candy's Going Bad
She Flies On Strange Wings
Ce Soir
Mad Love's Comin'
Leather
Clear Night Moonlight
Lost & Found
The Devil Made Me Do It
Quiet Eyes
Twilight Zone

Customer Reviews:

Twilight Zone.......2007-05-16

Still one of the best pieces of music, Twilight Zone "Rocks" as much today as it did when it was new! The entire CD is great!

Great For Golden Earring Fans.......2007-04-20

'The Continuing Story of Radar Love' is a greatest hits collection of songs by the (mainly) 70s rock group Golden Earring. With 'Twilight Zone' being one of my favorite songs of all time (and still is), I continually have the vision of the bullet slicing through the apple in the music video which was a mainstay of MTV in their early days. Radar Love is Golden Earring' opus achievement according to most fans (I feel Twilight Zone is better), and never fear, that headline song is present, along with several other tracks which pale in comparison to these 2.

If you are a Golden Earring fan or 70s rock music in general I think you will be happy with this collection but the top 2 hits blow away everything else on the disc (Quiet Eyes is pretty good though).

**** RECOMMENDED

Twilight Zone.......2007-04-19

The Continuing Story of Radar Love is a 12-song hits collection from rock band Golden Earring, containing both the 70s rock staple "Radar Love" and the full eight-minute version of "Twilight Zone." These two songs are the most notable on this compilation and both cracked the Top 20, with "Radar Love" hitting number 13 in 1974 and "Twilight Zone" peaking at number ten nine years later. The other ten songs on the album consist of long, heavy guitar-filled runs that surround obscure lyrics, the best of which are "The Vanilla Queen" and "Mad Love's Comin."

TWILIGHT ZONEMany American music fans had forgotten about Golden Earring after "Radar Love," but the Dutch group hung around and remained popular around the world as it performed its mix of hard rock with other sounds and subsequently created many albums worth noting. Their consistent hard work paid off when the group released the major hit "Twilight Zone," a rocker that paired edgy lyrics to a hard-hitting, slick rock sound, not unlike the much newer song "Kryptonite" by Three Doors Down. I guess you could say these guys had thirty minutes of fame, having had two big hits nine years apart. "Twilight Zone" seems to be a story about paranoia, desperation and betrayal. It paints a lonely portrait of "a double-crossed agent, all alone" who is trying to carry out a mission only to find himself betrayed at every turn: "Help, I'm stepping into the twilight zone/This is a madhouse/Feels like being cloned/My beacon's been moved under moon and star/Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?" The music replicates the angry tone of the lyrics by mixing certain melodies that build from a meditative mood to an angry boil with a swirling chorus that consistently shifts direction conveying the frenzied confusion of the agent. Golden Earring's recording of "Twilight Zone" is equal parts hard rock and heavy metal. Anchoring the song is George Kooymans' angry, somewhat bluesy guitar work in conjunction with pulsating synthesizer lines that add a futuristic mood to the recording. Drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk adds plenty of exciting percussive frills, providing a major contribution to the song's scorching instrumental break. Singer Barry Hay provides an exceptionally emotive performance with a gruff vocal that enhances the song's mixture of anger and paranoia. This is a thrilling rocker that became an major U.S. and international hit.

A very good distillation of greatness.......2006-11-26

Golden Earring, the talented Dutch foursome of long duration (they've basically had the same configuration for more than 40 years now, since 1965) has an amazing body of work. Many of their finest moments occurred throughout the 1970s and 80s, and this period is fairly represented by the song selection here.

While simple popularity has dictated more selections from the 1973 smash album, Moontan (including the hit single "Radar Love") and its 1982 counterpart Cut (with its MTV favorite "Twilight Zone"), at least a sampling of the vast amount of other great work the Earring produced in the 70s is present.

Hopefully this collection will inspire new fans to explore the deep and pleasurable Earring catalog, including such landmark albums as Switch (1974), To The Hilt (1975) and Grab It For A Second (1978). And it'll certainly remind longtime listeners why they took a shine to the Earring in the first place.

Happy listening!

Golden Earring Rocks Like No Other.......2006-08-14

Can it be that utopia is riding my Harley Davidson along the shores of Lake Michigan, with Golden Earring blaring forth from my twin speakers. I know my wife hates it--but who cares?? After all--she likes Barry Manilow, and that music will NOT be played on my Harley!!!! For years I have grooved to "Radar Love", and "Twilight Zone". For the first time I have listened to an entire album of songs. What was I waiting for?? Wow--plug me in and turn up the volume. Great guitar licks, awesome vocals, and hip lyrics. I WILL be searching for more Golden Earring music soon. Time to put snow tires on my bike!! lol
Thomas--Green Bay

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Better than a greatest hits album
A very diverse band

The Continuing Story of Radar Love
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Manufacturer: Red Bullet
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ASIN: B00005Y2DL
Release Date: 2001-11-05

Tracks:

Radar Love
Vanilla Queen
Candy's Going Bad
She Flies on Strange Wings
Ce Soir
Mad Love's Comin'
Leather
Clear Night Moonlight
Lost and Found
Devil Made Me Do It
Quiet Eyes
Twilight Zone

Album Description

Import remastered reissue of the long running Dutch rock act's 1989 compilation.

Customer Reviews:

Better than a greatest hits album.......2005-05-26

This is a re-issue of a CD originally released in 1989. The cover has been modified slightly, so it now looks like one of those cheesey budget imports. It says that it is "Remastered". I don't know why that would be necessary. The original had very good sound quality. I would suggest getting the original version, as it is half the price and still available.

This is basically a greatest hits album. But, it is better than most greatest hits albums, because includes tracks beyond the hits. That is probably because Golden Earing never had enough AM radio hits to fill a CD. So, you get tracks like Vanilla Queen that normally wouldn't be on a greatest hits album.
The song selection is excellent, and most of their best stuff is captured here. There are few good tracks that did not make it, like Intro, from the Switch album. Also, nothing from their early days is included.

This type of album is perfect for Golden Earing. They have a handful of amazing songs. But, most of their work is just garbage. The album Moontan (which contains Radar Love) is an excpetion, most of the songs are great. On the rest of Golden Earing's albums, there are only one or two good songs per album. Some, like Bloody Buccaneers don't have a single track worth hearing.

Golden Earing is a Dutch band formed in 1964. On earlier albums, they were called The Golden Earings. On one their earlier albums, they do an 18 minute version of the Byrd's 8 Miles High. They were very obscure, until they 1972 smash hit Radar Love. They were probably the oldest and most popular one hit wonders. But, they finally got another hit in 1982 with Twilight Zone. They are still around today.

A very diverse band.......2004-09-19

Some great songs are included on Dutch band Golden Earring's US exclusive 1989 "best of" release. Besides the well-known classic "Radar Love" from 1974 to the awesome MTV hit "Twilight Zone" (also known as When The Bullet Hits The Bone) from 1983, there's the phsychedelic fan favorite "Vanilla Queen" from 1974, and "Quiet Eyes" from 1986. I must question why they left out their third most beloved song, "When The Lady Smiles" from 1984. Perhaps because the ingenuis MTV video wasn't well-recieved in the US due to it's controversial nature. It's still a great song that Americans would have loved and not including it on any of their "best of" compilations is a sin.

My biggest concern is that Golden Earring produced a lot of great material from 1988-2003 that missed the boat. While songs from their 1988 album Keeper Of The Flame didn't, the band obviously didn't feel they were up to snuff. In my opinion, Turn The World Around would have been another great choice for the compilation. And their 1991 album, Bloody Buccaneers was a fantastic album.

So basically, for the time it was a pretty good compilation, even though I wish some songs had been added. And I do think it's time for the band to release another US compilation that includes some of their newer stuff as well. Overall a very interesting band with music ranging from 60's bubblegum pop to phsychedelic, to dance-disco, to western, to ballads, to hard rock.

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