Bananarama - Wow!

2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of this 1987 album by the most successful British girl group in Pop history featuring seven bonus tracks: 'Clean Cut Boy' (Party Size), 'Mr. Sleaze', 'Ecstasy (Wild Style)', 'Nathan Jones' (Psycho Seven Inch Edit), 'I Want You Back' (Single Version), 'Amnesia (The Roxy Theme)' and 'Nathan Jones' (Single Version). WOW! was the final Bananarama album to feature founding member Soibhan Fahey, who left the band and formed Shakespeare's Sister. 17 tracks total including the hits 'I Heard A Rumour', 'Love In The First Degree' and more. Warner. Album Description

expanded--yet EDITED songs from original pressing!

Well, if you already have the original US pressing of this CD, you're in for a little shock here. Sure, it has a bunch of remixes and bonus tracks, but in order to cram those songs onto here, they have taken the 12" versions of Some Girls and Strike it Rich and edited them! Some Girls is now a little over 4 minutes verses its near 6 minute version, and Strike it Rich has gone from 6 minutes to under 3 minutes!!! Oh well, guess I'll be keeping two versions of this CD. For those who are wondering, The reissues of Deep Sea Skiving, Bananarama and True Confessions do NOT edit any of the original songs, yet still manage to squeeze on a load of bonus tracks. September 12, 2007

Still Bananariffic after 20 years.

When Bananarama hit No. 1 in America with their Stock Aitken Waterman-produced cover of "Venus," the all girl group reunited with SAW to record 1987's "Wow." It spawned more UK hit singles than any of their other albums, and it helped put Stock Aitken Waterman on the map as bonafide hitmakers with a then-Midas touch. The obvious hits ("Love in the First Degree," I Want You Back," "I Heard a Rumor") are here, but the album tracks "Some Girls" and "Strike it Rich" are just as infectious. If you savor perky dance pop with an energetic twist, you'll be in seventh heaven with "Wow." June 8, 2007

Goodbye, Siobhan, we miss you!

This is the last Bananarama album to feature Siobhan Fahey. The music itself is a bit more dispoable at this point but this is still worth owning for the pop classics I Heard A Rumor, I Can't Help It, Love In The First Degree, & I Want You Back. This UK reissue adds non album b-sides like Mr. Sleaze & other rarities which make this even more valuable. Yes it's true this is not the pop classic that the previous 3 albums were, this is still a classic in it's own right & totally worth the price to any die-hard Bananarama fan, espescially since it's the last album to feature the original line-up. March 30, 2007

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