Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Dancing with Myself
2. Friday's Angels
3. Your Generation
4. Ready Steady Go
5. Untouchables
6. Valley of the Dolls
7. Day By Day
8. Wild Youth
9. Prime of Kenny Slivers, Pts. 1-2
10. Wild Dub
11. One Hundred Punks
12. King Rocker
13. Kiss Me Deadly
14. Gimme Some Truth
15. New Order
16. English Dream
17. Youth Youth Youth
18. Rock 'n' Roll
19. Hunter

Disc 2:

1. Triumph [#]
2. Dancing with Myself [#]
3. Girls [#]
4. Modern Boys [#]
5. Cathy Come Home [#]
6. Revenge [#]
7. Flash as Hell [#]
8. Anna Smiles [#]
9. Psycho Beat [#]
10. Stars Look Down [#]
11. I Dig Everything [Mix][#]
12. Dancing With My Wealth [Mix][#]
13. Exclusive Interview With Tony James [Mix][#]

Disc 3:

1. Ready Steady Go [Live][#]
2. Trying for Kicks [Live][#]
3. English Dream [Live][#]
4. Triumph [Live][#]
5. Anna Smiles [Live][#]
6. Night of the Cadillacs [Live][#]
7. No No No [Live][#]
8. Valley of the Dolls [Live][#]
9. Revenge [Live][#]
10. Kiss Me Deadly [Live][#]
11. Friday's Angels [Live][#]
12. Wild Youth [Live][#]
13. Day By Day [Live][#]
14. King Rocker [Live][#]
15. Your Generation [Live][#]
16. Rock 'n' Roll [Live][#]
17. Shakin' All Over [Live][#]
18. Youth Youth Youth [Live][#]
19. Outro Jam [Live][#]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49071 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-29
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Best of

Album Details
Disc One is the Complete Singles Collection Including B-sides and Previously Unreleased Tracks. Disc Two is the Previously Unreleased Sweet Revenge Album. Disc Three is a Live Recording.

Customer Reviews

Gen X Fan's Dream Release
Every Gen X fan has disc one in one form or another. What's new is disc two (unreleased album by org line-up) and disc three (unreleased concert).

Purchased this two weeks ago and it's been on steady rotation on my player since; and I'm a person who's easily bored.

The versions of Triumph and Stars Looked Down on the unreleased album that were redone for the Kiss Me Deadly album easily SURPASS the later versions.

The guy who wrote the 2 star review is an idiot!

Yeah, the liner notes suck and are filled with grammatical errors and misspellings: so what? I buy CDs for music, not liner notes!

Get it - you won't regret it!

Overpriced, Watered Down & Wimpy....
The first disc collects most of Gen X's hits in excellent sound quality. However, the track selection on the "Perfect Hits" cd is much better, plus it flat out rocks harder. Strike one.

Disc two it the "unreleased album" and comes off sounding like a bunch of American English demos (the band that sang that dreadful "I'll Melt With You" song), with a extremely mellow Billy Idol on vocals. No Idol sneer on this disc; more like a quaint, perky little smile. The guitar work is brutal and the lead riffs are almost non-existent. The guitar during the fade out of the song "Triumph" sounds like a 1st graders first guitar lesson. The "Kiss Me Deadly" album which shares a similar tracklist, has "way" better production value, rocks much harder, has the guitars way up fron in the mix, and is a better purchase. This is Billy Idol-lite. Strike two.

Disc three contains a live concert recorded in Osaka, Japan.
Why Japan and not Europe is beyond me. The band seems totally lifeless and out of their element. I never viewed Japan as much of a "punk" rock country. Heavy Metal, yes (as in Made In Japan... "Ian Paice on the drums, yes!"); but not punk. Anyway, this 3rd disc does nothing to endear one to the band's proficiency as musicians. The sound is fair and the mix is borderline brutal.
You'll maybe listen to it once. Strike three.

So after pulling another Sammy Sosa and whiffing on this one, here's my advice. "Perfect Hits", "Kiss Me Deadly" if you can find it & "Radio One Sessions".

ps....don't forget Billy's VH-1 album. Now there's all killer, no filler.

great music, awful packaging
First things first, the "rare" stuff. "Sweet Revenge" is what should have been the third Generation X album with the original line-up, but wasn't released at the time. It shares some tracks (though in different versions) with what was released as the third album, "Kiss Me Deadly". It's a pretty fine record, but in comparing the tracks the two albums share, it's clear that "Kiss Me Deadly" enjoys better recording and production. But it's a treat to hear the "new" songs, which are pretty good, and a few - most notably "Girls" - about as good as anything the band did.

"Live At Osaka" is a pretty fair recording of the band around the same period of time as the unreleased album. A good selection of hits, b-sides and album tracks and reasonably good sound quality.

The first disc claims "the complete singles", but what you're really getting is all the a-sides, not chronologically, as well as a few b-sides and album tracks, plus three rarities - covers of Led Zeppelin and Free (interesting but not that great) and "New Order", which previously was found on the (totally redundant if you own this) "Perfect Hits" CD. In fact, disc one is essentially that CD with some extra tracks.

All of this would be fine, except the packaging is awful. A shame when "Perfect Hits" was pretty well packaged. The liner notes are pretty skimpy with details, have LOTS of annoying misspellings and ZILLIONS of typos and not many pictures or anything. (In fact the bootleg version of "Sweet Revenge" was much more professionally packaged.) There's not much of an excuse for this; the package was delayed a year and there was ample opportunity to get some real fans or professional critics to contribute notes that would have been worthwhile. The interview track with Tony James is very open to discussing the drug problems that [messed] up the band - kudoos for his honesty - so it's a shame that the same sort of thoroughness didn't enhance the packaging.

The other perplexing thing is why so many album tracks are on this set to the exclusion of the few remaining non-CD b-sides which would have made this the perfect completist's set. Where are Loopy Dub, Rock On, Ugly Rash and Ugly Dub?

Two other notes: "This Heat" on the live disc is actually not that song but "Trying For Kicks". I don't know how they [messed] that up. And all the studio tracks from "Valley Of The Dolls" are way remixed and sound pretty different than any other version of the album - almost painfully "hot" compared to the songs from other records. No mention of this is made in the notes or anywhere.