GREATEST HITS FORTNIGHT (FEBRUARY 6-19, 2012)
This CD is certainly in the running for ugliest album cover art. How do you go from the sublime Rio art by Nagel to this mess by fashion designer Stephen Sprouse? In any case, this was an early CD purchase for me and got a lot of playtime in the early '90s, bringing back great high school memories. This album was later rendered obsolete with the release of the 1998 compilation, Greatest, which included all 14 songs from this album, plus New Moon on Monday (one of my fav DD tunes) and four singles from the '90s.
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: #67
Peak on the Billboard Pop CD chart: #24
Tracks: I've already covered most of these songs here, which makes me wonder why I've kept this CD in the collection. This compilation gives you the familiar radio edits and mixes. The later tunes which aren't on the singles box set are Notorious, Skin Trade, I Don't Want Your Love and All She Wants Is. I can do without any of those four, particularly Skin Trade. I guess when they switched from New Romantic to funk lite, I lost interest (although I still have great respect for producer Nile Rodgers).
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: My first year as a public school teacher, I took some students on an overnight trip to Corpus Christi. Some knuckleheaded students brought a full component stereo on the bus that they somehow had rigged up to a car battery for power (I guess I should give the credit for their problem solving skills). The only songs I remember them playing before I had them turn down the volume were Living Colour's Cult Of Personality and Duran Duran's Wild Boys, either of which could have easily been that group's theme song.
Previously revisited for the blog:
Astronaut (2004)
The Singles 81 - 85 (2003)
Tracks: I've already covered most of these songs here, which makes me wonder why I've kept this CD in the collection. This compilation gives you the familiar radio edits and mixes. The later tunes which aren't on the singles box set are Notorious, Skin Trade, I Don't Want Your Love and All She Wants Is. I can do without any of those four, particularly Skin Trade. I guess when they switched from New Romantic to funk lite, I lost interest (although I still have great respect for producer Nile Rodgers).
| Song | Year | Hot 100 | Rock | Dance | UK |
| Planet Earth | 1981 | - | - | 26 | 12 |
| Girls On Film | 1981 | - | 19 | 26 | 5 |
| Hungry Like The Wolf | 1982 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 5 |
| Rio | 1982 | 14 | 5 | - | 9 |
| Save A Prayer | 1982 | 16 | - | - | 2 |
| Is There Something I Should Know | 1983 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 1 |
| Union Of The Snake | 1983 | 3 | 2 | 33 | 3 |
| The Reflex | 1983 | 1 | 35 | 15 | 1 |
| Wild Boys | 1984 | 2 | 42 | 27 | 2 |
| A View To A Kill | 1985 | 1 | 42 | - | 2 |
| Notorious | 1988 | 2 | - | 26 | 7 |
| Skin Trade | 1986 | 39 | - | - | 22 |
| I Don't Want Your Love | 1988 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 14 |
| All She Wants Is | 1988 | 22 | 24 | 1 | 9 |
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Personal Memory Associated with this CD: My first year as a public school teacher, I took some students on an overnight trip to Corpus Christi. Some knuckleheaded students brought a full component stereo on the bus that they somehow had rigged up to a car battery for power (I guess I should give the credit for their problem solving skills). The only songs I remember them playing before I had them turn down the volume were Living Colour's Cult Of Personality and Duran Duran's Wild Boys, either of which could have easily been that group's theme song.
Previously revisited for the blog:
Astronaut (2004)
The Singles 81 - 85 (2003)
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