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This soundtrack is amazing and love the fact they got tons of indie bands for New Moon. The songs just describes the emotions and the intensity of the movie (Bella losing Edward). My personal favorites; Hearings Damage, No Sound but the Wing, Possibility, Slow Life, Satellite Heart.

I guess it was to be expected eventually. Every great band sells out, it is just a matter of time.

It is really a shame though to have wonderful music (“slow life”) forever associated with a franchise Hollywood teen movies.

I guess resisting selling out is proving to be the hardest thing that a musician can do these days.

I assume that Grizzly bear will be selling their songs for Wal-mart commercials next.

Maybe Beach House can sell some of their songs for Target’s advertising campaign.

Absolutely amazing. This song could fit on any LP album. I’m glad Michael
Bay chose LP to make this song.

This song is awesome. It’s fresh material and it’s a bit of a different sound than Minutes to Midnight, but still captures what Linkin Park is all about. It still has the revolutionary electronic sound no other band comes close to matching.

People keep complaining about the new Linkin Park songs sounding like pop and they should play on the radio next to the Jonas Brothers and Katy Perry. This has to be the biggest insult the band could receive. They do get radio time, but not because teenie-boppers and soccer moms call in and request it, it’s because their sound is so clean and it absorbs the listener and any good DJ would/should mix in a little GOOD music with all the crap that gets played.

Here’s a test for you non-believers. Take any Linkin Park song (Hybrid Theory album and beyond) and crank the volume. In my opinion they are the only band who cannot get too loud. They pay so much attention to detail in their beats and vocal levels that it never gets annoying and it never gets old. Try that with any “pop” song and your head would implode.

This compilation replaces 1996’s Time Flies: The Best of Huey Lewis & the News and trumps that prior disc in every way. The prior collection only contained 16 tracks, 4 of which were “new” tracks which never really did become “hits”. In addition to the 12 genuine hits on “Time Flies”, “Greatest Hits” adds 9 must have hits for almost 80 minutes of as-good-as-it-gets 1980’s pop.

As others have stated some, not all, of the tracks are “single” versions. While this is not a problem for the tracks from Fore! and Picture This which clock in at just about their original length, it is noticeable on the Sports tracks “Heart of Rock & Roll”, which is about 1 minute shorter than the LP version, & “I Want a New Drug” which loses more than a minute. The biggest victim is “Couple Days Off” from Hard at Play which is slashed by over a minute and a half, losing much of its relentless drive and powerful drumming. Still, if you were used to hearing Huey Lewis on the radio back in the mid ’80s and you’re looking to recapture those days, then these “single” versions should suit your needs just fine.

I’m not hearing any audio revelations on this CD but I think the sonics are as good as it’s going to get and a marked improvement over the earliest releases of the Huey Lewis catalog on CD. I think the sometimes dense and compressed sound is simply of a reflection of the recording and production techniques used to make these albums back in the ’80s.

If you want to dig a bit deeper but don’t want to have to spring for all the individual CDs, I also recommend the 3-disc Thirty Six All Time Greatest which is bare-bones in terms of packaging (no liner notes) but chock to the rim with just about every essential track from the first five LPs (5 of 10 tracks from the original (out of print) Huey Lewis And The News, 8 of 10 tracks from “Picture This”, 6 of 9 from “Sports”, 9 of 10 from “Fore!”, 5 of 10 from Small World, the two singles from “Hard at Play”, plus “Power of Love” from “Back to the Future”). While the “Heart of R&R” and “Want a New Drug” are sadly included in their single versions here as well, “Couple Days Off” is present in its full 5-minute version. At $30.00 it’s a bit steep and you will lose “Back in Time” plus later hits “It’s Alright”, “But It’s Alright”, and “Cruisin”, but “Thirty-Six All Time Greatest” may be all the Huey Lewis you ever need and includes some essential album tracks not included on “Greatest Hits”.

As a greatest hits package goes, this one is very enjoyable. It includes a few tracks that were supposedly omitted in other Huey Lewis collections such as “Back in Time” from “Back to the Future.” Sound quality is very good, and for even a casual fan such as myself, almost every track is recognizable and great fun.

The 90s backlash has been ugly, with this not only 90s classic, but music classic being pushed aside since radio chewed it up and spit it back out, 1,000 spins later. It still lives on in the minds of millions of fans who still put this high up on their life’s soundtrack.

It’s a song that runs on a million trains of thoughts, ranging from karma, to self-appreciation, to celebrity-bashing. It’s certainly ground-breakingly awesome, bringing awesomeness to another level not only in the world of pop rock, but music period. Hearkening back to those piano-driven pop ballads of the 70s, this outwardly simple song holds a lot of complexity to it. Just ask U2 guitarist/song-writer “The Edge.” When asked in Time Magazine back in ‘06 what songs he would most like to have written, there was “Wonderwall,” and “You Get What You Give.” And even though some would say it’s a throwback to years gone by, it keeps itself a modern eye, staying relevant not only in the 90s, but also in the 00s.

Then you gotta love those vocals, using the false, and they’re just so perfect for the song. And again, it’s a throwback to the 70s. As for the last few verses, although some outlets have cut them, I don’t really care about them, and they kind box the song in the 90s a little bit too much. Although the way he sings it is great, it’s kind of here nor there, didn’t need that.

So looking at best 90s songs, this ranks in the top 10, which is pretty impressive considering the litnia of the decade. Once the brutal 90s backlash is over this song and ones like it will once again receive the credit they deserve, but until then, “You Get What You Give” will play on as the soundtrack for a moment in time, forever frozen in splendor.

A pretty good CD which becomes great the minute Neko Case sings. Her lead vocals are the best thing on this record, the chemistry changes when she appears. The rest of the album is fun, but the arrangements are sometimes just too much; the songs do not have room to breathe. Compare this to Neko’s solo work, and you’ll see the difference. That could be the mix too, a lot of albums these days sound so compressed. Perhaps the vinyl is better.

Together < Mass Romantic
Together < Electric Version
Together < Twin Cinema
Together > or = Challengers
Together = ****
Together > Most everything else you’re bound to hear these days.

There’s a couple of decent songs on here.. not enough to keep my attention. Some of these bands sound like they are trying to bring 80’s hair metal back…