Audio CD review:
Golden Earring - The Continuing Story of Radar Love

Golden Earring - The Continuing Story of Radar Love

Band: Golden Earring Title: The Continuing Story of Radar Love Rating: Release Date: 05 November, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 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

Customer Reviews Better than a greatest hits album The cover has been modified slightly, so it now looks like one of those cheesey budget imports. This is a re-issue of a CD originally released in 1989. 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 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. Some great songs are included on Dutch band Golden Earring's US exclusive 1989 "best of" release. 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. . . You can see a complete list of all Golden Earring discography, or go back to the Golden Earring tabs