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Fish Finger

Fish Finger

Finally, we're getting a greatest hits DVD bundled with the new greatest hits album "30 Years of Bananarama" out 9th July.

The CD has 22 tracks, but the DVD is the real gem as it has all 35 videos!

CD:
Aie A Mwana
Really Saying Something
Shy Boy
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Cruel Summer
Robert De Niro's Waiting
Venus
I Heard A Rumour
Love In The First Degree
I Can't Help It
I Want You Back
Love Truth & Honesty
Nathan Jones
Help
Only Your Love
Preacher Man
Movin' On
Every Shade Of Blue
Move In My Direction
Look On The Floor
Love Comes
Love Don't Live Here

DVD:
1. Really Saying Something
2. Shy Boy
3. Cheers Then
4. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
5. Cruel Summer
6. Robert De Niro's Waiting
7. Rough Justice
8. Hotline To Heaven
9. The Wild Life
10. Do Not Disturb
11. Venus
12. More Than Physical
13. A Trick Of The Night
14. I Heard A Rumour
15. Love In The First Degree
16. I Can't Help It
17. I Want You Back
18. Love Truth & Honesty
19. Nathan Jones
20. Help
21. Only Your Love
22. Preacher Man
23. Long Train Running
24. Tripping On Your Love
25. Movin' On
26. Last Thing On My Mind
27. More More More
28. Every Shade Of Blue
29. Take Me To Your Heart
30. Move In My Direction
31. Look On The Floor
32. Love Comes
33. Love Don't Live Here
Bonus tracks
34. Venus 12"
35. I Can't Help It 12"

AMAZING!
 
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Mvnl

Mvnl

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Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

I'm a bit sad Last Thing On My Mind isn't on the CD. I suppose it wasn't too big for them, but it is one of their most wellknown songs.
 
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ShakespearsMister

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

I've just died and gone to heaven.
 
letuinmybackdoor

letuinmybackdoor

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

No 'Rough Justice' on the CD?!!!!!!! Yet 'Every shade of blue' is? Madness. But I guess it's not like I don't have them already. Could they not also stick the Brits 'Love in the first degree' performance with tons of near naked boys on as well?
 
Eric Generic

Eric Generic

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

This is of course worth it for the DVD alone. I'll stick with my own CD compilation for the music!
 
vivalaradio

vivalaradio

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

Why is "It Ain't What You Do" often left off their greatest hits albums?
 
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tom71

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

I have been waiting for this DVD forever. They are the ONLY of my favourites which has never had a DVD "Best of" released. Drunken Saturday nights in will now have the perfect accompaniment!
 
Eric Generic

Eric Generic

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

Quite possibly. FB3 were on Chrysalis, and the Rams were on London (via Polygram). Though these days it's all become one big happy family in the music biz.
 
letuinmybackdoor

letuinmybackdoor

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

Weren't there two 'Trick of the night' videos? The single mix and the PWL mix in black and white made for some BBC TV show that they hated? I'm guessing it'll be the single mix, but the completist in me wants both!
 
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Former member 330

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

Ok, this is great news. However, the DVD is missing;

It Aint What You Do
Trick Of The Night (B&W Version)
Cruel Summer 89 (montage of footage)
Megarama 89 (an A-side in Japan, France and Germany - also a montage)

...which would've been nice but it's certainly pretty good regardless. I thought we might get a Bananrama At The BBC type DVD or bonuses, they did millions of BBC shows over the years.
 
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Former member 330

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

letuinmybackdoor said:
Weren't there two 'Trick of the night' videos? The single mix and the PWL mix in black and white made for some BBC TV show that they hated? I'm guessing it'll be the single mix, but the completist in me wants both!
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I don't think the black and white one used the PWL mix. That was done quite late in the day to try and revive the single sales. It's the same version as the first video.
 
letuinmybackdoor

letuinmybackdoor

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

This is the version I meant. The BBC did a documenary where this guy from 'That's life' made a video for the girls. I think the show was 'In at the deep end' and he was set the challenge of making a pop video when he'd never done it before. The mix used is the PWL mix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqHcfFixh7o

French and Saunders spoofed this video on their Lananeeneenoonoo sketch as well.
 
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Former member 330

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

Well, I was only a child at the time but this video obviously was never used and only got shown once on the TV show in question. They hated the end product and went with a different video. What I didn't understand is how the "PWL mix" (it's actually just an edit of "The Number One Mix" from the 12" and offically has two mix titles; 'A Trick Of The Night #2' and/or 'A Trick Of The Night (Alternative 7" Version - Edit Of Numer One Mix) ', which wasn't the A-side, was used on this earlier video, but it's not earlier at all. I think A Trick Of The Night was flopping in other territories and they hoped the TV show and a new video would help (it didn't!). They just kept the older video after the show aired, with the actual A-side/single version (which is different from the album version, but it's not the PWL mix) and didn't use the remix as the A-side because it wasn't the song in the video? Here's what they did on the gatefold 7", put out after the show in 1987, but the single was already out abroad (most copies still carry 1986 as the release date on the sleeve, but these UK EPs have 1987 on). 'A Trick Of The Night #2' is on the B-side;

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letuinmybackdoor

letuinmybackdoor

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

From memory, which may be hazy, the single came out in the UK quite a while after the TV show. The single followed quite a while after 'More than physical' (wasn't Keren pregnant?) and I'm sure they shot the TV show video first, were so unhappy with it and shot the single version video after. The 'number one' mix is essentially a mash-up with 'Say I'm your number one' and if memory serves me right, the mix on the b-side was an edit of the number one mix, but not the mix used in the video (that doesn't really sample 'Say I'm your number one'). Of course, this was 25 years ago so it may all be wrong!
 
phoenix123

phoenix123

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

I don't like that PWL remix or the Black & white video. I think the colour video looked rather HQ and modern for 1987!!!
 
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Former member 330

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

Well, the label of the 4 track 7", which came bundled in a double pack with "The USA number 1 hit Venus" 7", titles the mix as "Alternative 7" Version - Edit Of Number One Mix", whilst the sleeve simply says "#2". Wikipedia has the release date as January 1987, the TV show aired in February 1987. I Heard A Rumour was out by July 1987. I guess the show was filmed in late 1986, and between the release of the record and the TV show, they re-shot the video. All the worldwide release dates on Discogs.com may be incorrect, listed as 1986, if they delayed the release until 1987 but had in fact pressed up the single ready for an earlier release. The mix in the video is the same as the mix on the B-side of the 7" and the version included on the last Greatest Hits album.
 
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Eric Generic

Eric Generic

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

Jesus, talk about confusing! Haha. I remember that TV show now that's it mentioned, totally forgot about that one....think it was also the series where the guy (Paul Heiney?) joined the making of a flop Michael Caine vehicle called "Water" (clearly the programme was an absolute curse on its subjects). It was mostly memorable for a acting lesson with a clearly inebriated Oliver Reed, which revolved around ever-more ridiculous deliveries of the line "I told you old man, leave us alone".

Aaaaaaaanyway....A Trick Of The Night did come out in the UK an awfully long time after the previou single and long after True Confessions had sunk without trace. In fact, it was probably nearer to the Wow era in the end!
 
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Former member 330

Re: 30 Years of Bananarama - CD & (at last!) DVD

More Than Physical came out in August 1986. They were promoting in the States somewhere after this, what with Venus exploding over there (Keren has said the flop of True Confessions is largely down to them not being in this country promoting enough at the time) so there's about 7 months between the two singles.
 
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