“Frankie Say: Beware of a man named Jerry Springer…This record,
incidentally, is a soundtrack to exactly what never happened.”

What??!? If there was an Aria for the strangest sleeve notes, it would be in honour of Frankie goes to Hollywood. I found myself so confused in places that I had to slap myself, once on each cheek, and skip to the next paragraph.

Disc 1, featuring all their hits, eerily resembled the sleeve notes. Jumping from camp party anthems (“Relax”) to Opera samples (“The World is my Oyster,”) One can not help but feel overwhelmed by the confused nature of Frankie’s musical direction. It is sensational. (Insert sentence about the difference between genius and insanity being measured by sucess:)

As for the obligitory remix disc, featuring 7 remixes, mostly of a
pop-trance ilk. Even the often eclectic Apollo Four Forty produced a four to the floor belter (remix of “Two Tribes.”) Nalin and Kane remixed “Welcome to the Pleasuredome,” with what almost resembles a breakbeat, but still fail to sound inspired. Expect to hear this disc blairing out of the tinny speakers at your local discount jeans retailer.

Buy this if you don’t already have Frankie’s hits and you enjoy safe trance. Otherwise, wait a couple of years, so the record companies can get some other remixers to slap Frankie’s vocals on top of soundtracks from a different fashionable genre.

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