The Best of Hue & Cry

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Customer reviews

review by: The Bungo Boy date: 2007-03-25 rating:
Stop the Sinatra comparisons
Honestly, the comparisons betweeh Hue and Cry and Sinatra are enough to make you wince!
Why cant people just enjoy this slight, trashy, insubtantial, catchy 80s pop - with its tinny sound and charm - for what it is - working class white soul boys enjoying themselves.
There is simply no connection or comparison worth making with Sinatra or any of the other great twentieth century interpreters.
For some of you novices why not check out Frank's 'In the Wee Small Hours' (for heartache and late nite melancholia), his album with Antonio Carlos Jobim (for tenderness), and 'Come Fly with Me' (for shere style, wit and elan).

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review by: locomouth date: 2004-02-13 rating:
Best of Hue and Cry
If you're into "Blue Eyed Soul" this album's for you. It ranges from Bluesy to Rockin' Pop. They have slightly different versions of their biggest hits and some songs not available to US customers. I like this compilation but I feel that it's not complete. With their other Greatest Hits called Labour of Love I think that it gives a more complete view of the band before they went down their bluesy jazzy path.

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review by: date: 2003-09-15 rating:
South Of Sinatra, North Of Stevie Wonder.............
In a world where marketing triumphs over talent and image prevents ability from coming to the fore, we find ourselves harking back to the golden era of Scottish "pop" music".
Late 80's to mid 90's, Hue And Cry epitomised all that was good and true.
Strong politically sound lyrics, music to make the heart sing and vocals to thaw even the iciest of hearts.
Pat Kane (vocals) had a Sinatra thing going, his vocals were thick with images of a smokey 40's niteclub, resplendent in a white dinner jacket a big band at his back, he is the singer Robbie Williams wished he was when he recorded "Swing When Your Winning", a talent wasted because of his refusal to sell out and Michael McBoltonise himself.
Each song is a novella, a story within itself.
I could go on, in short?
Buy it, make yourself a better person.
Rediscover real music.


review by: date: 2000-10-29 rating:
Velvet vocals and politically motivated grooves
Pat and Greg Kane are undoubtedly Scotland's best kept secret. Pat's vocals are simply stunning, a mix of Sinatra's smoothness, George Michael's majesty and Tom Jones' oomph! A best of CD is perhaps the quickest way in which to familiarise the Hue & Cry virgin with their sounds, but this is but a chapter in their extensive book of music. The selection is good (where is "Strength to Strength" one asks?) from the absolute classic "Labour of Love" to the more recent "Under Neon", so buy and enjoy.....

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