Walking in Sunshine: The Best of

This is about as good a compilation as one can hope for given Bad Manners' relative obscurity. I give it 4 stars alone for including the best-ever cover of Tequila. Why they are the forgotten Brit Ska band I'll never understand.The song selections are very good, especially the choices from Looney Tunes. A few more of them (Doris, Spy I, and El Pussycat, for example) and this would be a truly great compilation.If you like Bad Maners this is the best compilation available.

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A decent retrospective of Bad Manners.

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not good. for a good group this is a lousy grouping of songs. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. horrible

Here's the track listing. Had they thrown in a 3rd CD with some of the newer stuff - from the late 1980s- 200x then it would have made it THE Compilation to own. Still, this set has its moments as it is not a carbon copy of the others, and the original studio versions are used instead of the crappy live ones.CD 11 Ne-Ne Na-Na Na-Na Nu-Nu2 My Girl Lollipop (My Boy Lollipop)3 Special Brew4 Walking In The Sunshine5 Buona Sera6 Woolly Bully7 Lip Up Fatty8 Can Can9 Inner London Violence10 Scruffy, The Huffy Chuffy Tugboat11 Got No Brains12 Just A Feeling13 Tequila14 Lorraine15 Echo Gone Wrong16 Suicide17 The Under Adventures Of Ivor The Engine18 Just Pretendin'CD 21 Magnificent 72 King Ska Fa3 Weeping And Wailing4 Ben E Wriggle5 Runaway6 Never Will Change7 Only Funkin'8 End Of The World9 Gherkin10 Samson And Delilah11 Echo 4-212 Psychedelic Eric13 Exodus14 Fatty Fatty15 Holiday16 Night Bus To Dalston17 Educating Marmalade18 Falling Out Of Love

An excellent release by a nearly-forgotten classic band. Bad Manners were stereotyped as the novelty act of the 2-Tone period, but if you listen to this double album you'll struggle to understand why.Here is an album of fantastic music, of solid music, music you can dance to, music you can listen to again and again, with just that little edge of stupidity to it.These CDs are full of classics: two top-fives, two top-tens, some top-twenties, top-forties, and a host of album tracks that demonstrate that Buster & co were more than the mere clowns they were made out to be. A quick check of their 'hayday' albums will show that they tended towards a rough 50-50 mix of originals and cover versions, much like many of the 2-Tone ska bands they were associated with; but take out the tracks they didn't compose and you'll still have a compilation of true brilliance here.If you compare this album with their only other (to date) 'genuine' retrospective, " Magnetism: Very Best of ", you'll find some small but important differences. The first is the most obvious: this is a double CD, whereas "Magnetism" is only one disc. The second is that "Magnetism" contains the brilliant "That'll Do Nicely", and this compilation weirdly misses it out. This is easily made up for however by the next difference: on "WITS - The Best Of...", you'll find the discs packed with high quality album tracks and B-sides that you'll struggle to find elsewhere. Finally, the great Rhoda Daker's sleeve notes and a couple of pictures put it all into context and remind you what a great band Bad Manners really were.Kudos for including the mental "Educating Marmalade", but some lyrics would have helped tremendously. I know there's a lot of songs included here, but from time to time Buster's enunciation wasn't the clearest of any lead singer in the world.One more thing: this is NOT a re-mix or a live album. These are the originals. Sad songs? - Well I've heard too many. Buy this album instead!

I bought this CD as a replacement for my vinyl copy of "The Height of Bad Manners" (Telstar 1983), but this single CD collection is rubbish. It's full of inane editing (electronic burps between tracks, amateurish electronic repetitions) but lacking many of BM's best songs that were on the vinyl collection (e.g., Wooly Bully, Inner London Violence, Buona Sera, Walking in the Sunshine, Got No Brains, Elizabethan Reggae, Falling Out of Love, That'll Do Nicely), or including bad versions or dumb remixes of other songs.Other earlier reviews talk of a 2-CD set, with different track listings and all original recordings, so perhaps there are two versions of this "Best of..." out there? If so, this is the "Worst of" the two. Don't buy it.

all of the big hits plus the b-sides from the original line up.skaank yourself to death.rudeboy mayhem.

Catchy ska songs by the larger than life buster blood vessel

Buster Blood Vessel

Was a gift so I never listened to the CD, but it came in good packaging and looked of a good quality

Ok