Boom Crash Opera - The Best Things: Greatest Hits [Import]

boom crash opera - the best things: greatest hits [import]

Track Listings

1. Great Wall

2. Hands Up in the Air

3. City Flat

4. Her Charity

5. Onion Skin

6. Get Out of the House

7. Best Thing

8. Dancing the Storm

9. Bettadaze

10. In the Morning

11. This Isn't Love

12. Gimme

13. Soundtrack

14. Radio

15. All

16. Welcome to Tomorrow

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Long overdue hits collection for one of Australia's top bands from the late '80s/ early '90s. 16 tracks, including 'Hands Up In The Air', 'Onion Skin', 'Dancing In The Storm','Great Wall' and 'The Best Thing'. The perfect supplement for insatiable fans of Midnight Oil and/ or The Alarm. 1998 BMG release.

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Boom Crash Opera - The Best Things: Greatest Hits [Import]

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Here You Buy! Here You Buy a CD You'll Play for More Than One More Time!
The Best Things...and Some Mediocrity
The Best Things - definitely
underrated
Marvellous Aussies do it again

Boom Crash Opera - The Best Things: Greatest Hits
Boom Crash Opera
Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000G6I0
Release Date: 1997-07-18

Tracks:

Great Wall
Hands Up in the Air
City Flat
Her Charity
Onion Skin
Get Out of the House
Best Thing
Dancing the Storm
Bettadaze
In the Morning
This Isn't Love
Gimme
Soundtrack
Radio
All
Welcome to Tomorrow

Album Description

Long overdue hits collection for one of Australia's top bands from the late '80s/ early '90s. 16 tracks, including 'Hands Up In The Air', 'Onion Skin', 'Dancing In The Storm','Great Wall' and 'The Best Thing'. The perfect supplement for insatiable fans of Midnight Oil and/ or The Alarm. 1998 BMG release.

Album Details

Australian Exclusive Release.

Customer Reviews:

Here You Buy! Here You Buy a CD You'll Play for More Than One More Time!.......2006-02-19

Boom Crash Opera probably aren't as famous as their songs but once you start playing The Best Things you'll remember you've been listening to these songs for a long time. There biggest hits are on the first parts of this CD and you'll certainly remember the big four from the 1989 album These Here are Crazy Times. Those classics Onion Skin, Get Out of the House, Dancing in the Storm and The Best Thing (used to be played on Wide World of Sports, Channel 9 Australia during the end credits where it is eventually cut short by the groan as that gymnast guy misjudges his run up and smashes into the pummel horse) you'll just keep playing again and again and again.

If you aren't from a country that is familiar with these guys and you like their sound also check out the great band Crowded House as well.

The Best Things...and Some Mediocrity.......2005-06-06

Boom Crash Opera was, to my mind, the most underrated Australian rock band of the 80s. And while The Best Things showcases some of the band's great moments, it also underscores its slow and sad descent into mediocrity.

The eponymous debut album was stong, and a sign of the things to come: "Great Wall", "Hands Up In the Air" and "Her Charity" - pure pop bliss.

These Here Are Crazy Times remains an almost flawless masterpiece. Its singles - "Onion Skin", "Get Out of the House", "The Best Thing", "Dancing In the Storm" and "Talk About It" - are gems, but the depth of the album is apparent in tracks such as "End Up Where I Started", "Mountain of Strength", "Forever" and my personal favourite, "Axe to Grind".

The Dreams on Fire EP featuring "Holy Water" was, regrettably, poorly received. Its tracks were almost on a par with those on Crazy Times.

Then Richard Pleasance left the band after being diagnosed with tinnitis. And with the demise of the Farnan/Pleasance songwriting pairing came the beginning of the end of BCO.

Their next 2 or 3 albums were, with few exceptions, utterly disappointing for a devout BCO fan such as myself. That demise is reflected in the songs towards the end of this compilation, which are utterly awful. "All", "Soundtrack" and "Radio" are sad indictments of what the band had become by the mid-90s.

My advice: listen to Tracks 1-10 and enjoy a band at the height of their powers. Tracks 11 onward are best ignored.

The Best Things - definitely.......2003-01-09

After The Beatles, there is no band I rate higher than this one. It's a sin that Irving Azoff and Giant Records didn't promote the band in the U.S. They would have been big, without a doubt. The Go Go's asked BCO management to allow BCO to open for one of the Go Go's tours back in the early-90's. BCO management agreed, but the record company (and Irving Azoff) refused to spend the money needed to bring BCO to America. BCO also had to cancel a showcase at the Roxy in L.A. Again, a SIN. The band has everything: great writing (especially the Farnan/Pleasance pairing), great lead vocals and harmonies, and great instrumentalists. There is NO weak link in this band. Their songs are "pop" catchy, but are also hard-driving rock. Anyone who doesn't like BCO is a person who hasn't listened to BCO. Buy this album and any others you can find by this band. They have between 5 and 10.

underrated.......2001-11-14

Despite the fact that they had a great ear for melody and a wild sense of the dramatic arrangement, BCO never really achieved the success they deserved. While lots of inferior pop/rock bands maintained consistent chart success, BCO had to be content with (quite a long) string of hit singles but only mildly successful albums in Australia. This collection has all their fab singles which really do demonstrate that they were masters at combining melody with the crash bang - or "boom crash". Most of it does sound distinctly 80s-ish but hasn't dated like lots of the English pop from the mid to late 80s. The consistency tails off a bit after Pete Farnan left the band, but nonetheless; enjoy.

Marvellous Aussies do it again.......1999-10-19

I love this band and this cd combines their best from the last ten years. Their on stage energy does not translate to recordings unfortunately but this is still a terrific compilation.

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