 |  | Get the import version with the bonus track |  |
The Import version of this CD can be gotten pretty inexpensively from amazon marketplace, and what makes it a gem for Dead or Alive collectors is that, as a bonus track, it has the full length 12" version of "Turn Around and Count to Ten". It stands completely alone and is not continuously mixed with the rest of these chopped up edits. As of this writing, that is the ONLY place you can get the full 12" version of that song on CD, and it pushes this mere 35 minute disc closer to 45 minutes. I just wish they had added a bunch more 12" versions as bonus tracks to bring up the CD duration.
October 8, 2007| | | Not required. Oh no SONY! | |
Epic, whatever! This LP just isn't necessary. Don't waste your time. This LP is an afront to my musical soul. Pete Burns would agree, just nothing. Put your $$$ on "Nude" instead of this rubbish. What a shame.
January 29, 2006 | | Best Dance Remix CD from the 80's | |
Pete Burns and company gave us some of the most innovative and heavy dance music...with his glam/genderbender image and free use of sexuality, Pete burns and Dear or Alive gave us dance music which was heavy with a dash of goth to it....RIP IT UP gives us the best of the band with the cd compiling some of the greatest tracks from the YouthQuake and Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know CDs. IT contains the very cool (yet overplayed) You spin me Round, the Sexy Hooked On Love, the Gothic Something In My House and other gems such as Lover Come Back to Me and In too Deep....All put together in a never stopping 47 minute mix of hot sexy, heavy 80's Dance. If you want some of the best the 80's offered in British Dance, this album is the one to get!!
September 23, 2005I've been a DoA diehard for years so i am not against the group but this CD sums up what is most appalling and criminal about the record industry.
Basically, they have taken 8 of their best songs and "remixed" them in an edited form !! The result is that you have a CD capable of storing 80 minutes of music, that barely lasts 35 mins as they are all edited 7" versions.
I can't understand that amongst all the reviews here, no-one has bothered to mention this because i think it is crucial...the very title of the album "rip it up" suggests an extended cd compilation.
As for non-stop dance mix, it isn't , it's simply been passed through a nero editor to eliminate the 2 second pause between the tracks, nothing else.
Bitterly disappointing, would it really have cost them to compile the full versions ?
Dead Or Alive deserve a better tribute than this offering.
September 13, 2005It's a bit like a Greatest hits nonstop mix, which was nice back then - but by now we have so many "Greatest hits"-items by Dead or Alive that new material would be highly appreciated too
July 26, 2005More reviews at Amazon.com ...
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