Golden Earring - The Continuing Story of Radar Love

Import remastered reissue of the long running Dutch rock act's 1989 compilation. Album Description

Still good

I enjoyed listening to this. there are good songs on it that don't get a lot of airplay. March 6, 2008

excellent throughout the ages

I am almost positive I remember my mom playing this album as she drove me to daycare in the early morning dark when I was about 3 years old. I rediscovered it a few years later and fell in love with twilight zone and mad love's coming.

Mom never liked the backside of the tape much and would always rewind/fast forward after She Flies on Strange Wings, so it wasn't until I was 13 that I "discovered" Ce Soir, and fell in love with it.

My junior year of high school we played Radar Love for a pep piece, and I discovered how much I love that one as well.

I guess it says something for an album that you can listen to it for over a decade and still find new affiliations for the songs you take for granted. My mom and I have worn out two cassettes of this album, and I guess she's finally gotten a cd, but the money was well spent, I believe. September 7, 2007

This CD is the only way to get "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone" on the same disk

The Dutch band Golden Earring is known to most Americans only by their two big hits (in the USA) "Radar Love" (1974) and "Twilight Zone" (1983); a few may also be familiar with "Candy's Going Bad" and "Vanilla Queen." In other words, they only have two recognizable songs to most Americans, which explains the numerous complaints by reviewers here concerning the less-than-stellar material on this CD aside from the two familiar songs.

I say: The disk is worth purchasing just for "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone;" the CD is cheap and you get two of the greatest songs ever penned in the history of humanity! "Radar Love" is a powerful tune about the profound psycho-spiritual connection a man has with his babe; this is related as he's cruising down the highway. Unfortunately, it ends tragically. This number features a stand-out brief drum solo in the latter half of the song. "Radar Love" is so emotionally potent it gives ya friggin' goosebumps!

"Twilight Zone" is no less great. The song is, evidently, about a lonely, paranoid double-crossed agent who experiences betrayal at every turn. I can't relate to the lyrics but the song itself, and its execution, is nothing less than magnificent.

Once again, these are two of the best songs ever composed in the history of the world; for this fact alone there's no way I could give this disk less than 5/5 Stars.

Yet, there are a few other good tunes here as well, most notably "Candy's Going Bad," a potent piece about a girl falling into prostitution and her parents inevitable negative reaction. This is a great song, almost on the level of the two hits. "Candy's Going Bad" was redone by the Columbus, Ohio band The Godz in the later 70s, which is a heavy metal version of the song and even better than the original! If you've never heard The Godz' rendition of "Candy's Going bad" sell everything you have and get a hold of it! It was featured on their first album (circa 1977/78), which I don't think is available anymore. However, you'll find it on the release The Godz "Power Rock from the USA" (What horrible title!). Let me tell ya, in the late 70s The Godz were as hot as bands like Van Halen and Aerosmith in Ohio/Pennsylvania; it's a real mystery to me why they never really took off and became as universally popular as those bands, or at least as popular as lesser known bands from the era, like Scorpians, Accept or Judas Priest. But I digress...

There are a couple of other notable songs on this disk: "Vanilla Queen" and "She Flies on Strange Wings." These songs, and the others on the CD, have a weird & dated vibe, so I can see why some reviewers pan them. Still, I find the entire disk a pleasant listening experience. Like everyone else I bought the disk specifically for "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone" (and "Candy's Going Bad") but also occasionally enjoy digesting the other songs as well. They all pale by comparison, of course, but that's just the way it is.

One notable thing I love about Golden Earring is their larger-than-life bass playing. Their drumming is superb as well. I also like the fact that their songs all sound DIFFERENT; I hate it when you buy a CD and the songs are too samey-sounding (e.g. Evanescence).

Needless to say, "Radar Love," "Twilight Zone" and "Candy's Going Bad" are absolutely MANDATORY songs for EVERYONE, whatever your musical tastes. They're all available on this 'greatest hit's' disk. September 3, 2007

Awesome songs, ok album

Radar Love is one of my favorite songs, and Twilight Zone is awesome, but the rest of the album does not meet the high bar set by these classics.
August 27, 2007

Twilight Zone

Still one of the best pieces of music, Twilight Zone "Rocks" as much today as it did when it was new! The entire CD is great! May 16, 2007

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