[.ca] Best of Real Life: Send Me an Angel

This CD is awesome!:
If you like 80's music please buy this CD!!!!!!! If you like this CD you should buy: Ultravox Collection. (You'll love these songs by Ultravox: Dancing With Tears In My eyes & We Came To Dance) Also, if you like Real Life you would really like Modern English (After The Snow CD)

Get It Moving:
Twenty years ago when I was half my age, I use to sing this "Send Me An Angel" in my head to get myself up hills on my racing bike, the lyrics taped to my handlebar. Think about it, the beat, the stroke, the sweat... totally in sync. It just gets you going. It still moves me. I never knew who the group was, until now. I'll take it.

Excellent compilation overall:
It could be easy to pass Real Life off as a one-hit wonder (Send Me An Angel,) but it just wouldn't be right. Sure, that song's the highlight of the band's career, but they also whipped out some other excellent tracks, many of which are available on this compilation. As another reviewer stated, the versions of these songs available in this compilation are mostly remixes and edits. If you want the original versions of Send Me An Angel and/or Catch Me I'm Falling, you should get Heartland, the band's 1983 debut album. Of course, the former was radically popular, so it can be found on some eighties compilations (I believe New Wave Hits of the Eighties Volume Eleven has it.) This is an excellent compilation overall, but even it has its shortcomings. What's the compilation called? Send Me An Angel. You get two versions of the track (the 1989 remix version and an extended dance mix version (the highlight of the disc,)) but the original version is missing in action. Also, it is VERY short for a CD compilation. The total time is only about 45:00, and you can fit 80:00 onto a single CD. Surely the band had other excellent songs that could have been used to fill the extra space. Also, the insert contains very little information - just a tracklist and not much more. It doesn't say what songs are remixes and what ones are originals. Why couldn't the booklet have the band's history or something like that? Another interesting note - This compilation is available with two different covers - The one shown above, and one that has a guy in a toga and a dog with fairy wings on a park bench. Not sure why there are two covers. Final verdict? If you're into good new wave rock, this is the compilation for you. Sure, the original version of Send Me An Angel isn't here, but two versions present are as good, if not better than the original. If you're desperate for the original version, get Heartland or New Wave Hits of the Eighties Volume Eleven. This compilation is an excellent example of why eighties music was pure excellent, and modern music is junk.

Buyer Beware - Mislabeled!:
Downloaded the song 'Catch Me I'm Falling' from this album. Instead of the hooky tune I remembered, I got a badly produced Disco mix of the song. It was impossible to tell this from the short, low quality sample offered for download check. AND, the song is labeled as if it is the original, not the screwy remix it actually is.

4 stars only:
this will bring you back to the 80s!!!

• Send Me an Angel '89 \oEdit\c
• Face to Face
• Catch Me I'm Falling
• Always
• Babies
• Send Me an Angel '89 \oDance Mix\c
• Hammer of Love
• Let's Fall in Love
• One Blind Love
• No Shame