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| Radio 1 - Established 1967 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: U.M.T.V.
Category: Music
List Price: £17.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (41 reviews)
Sales Rank: 572
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 144 minutes
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 600753025086
EAN: 0600753025086
ASIN: B000VRVTSO
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Flowers In The Rain - Kaiser Chiefs | | • | All Along The Watchtower - The Fratellis | | • | Cupid - Amy Winehouse | | • | Lola - Robbie Williams | | • | Your Song - The Streets | | • | Betcha By Golly, Wow - Sugababes | | • | You're So Vain - The Feeling | | • | Band On The Run - Foo Fighters | | • | Love Is The Drug - Kylie Minogue | | • | Let's Stick Together - KT Tunstall | | • | Sound And Vision - Franz Ferdinand | | • | Teenage Kicks - The Raconteurs | | • | I Can't Stand Losing You - MIKA | | • | Too Much Too Young - Kasabian | | • | Under Pressure - Keane | | • | Town Called Malice - McFly | | • | Come Back And Stay - James Morrison | | • | Careless Whisper - Gossip | | • | The Power Of Love - The Pigeon Detectives | | • | Don't Get Me Wrong - Lily Allen |
Disc 2
| • | You Sexy Thing - Stereophonics | | • | Fast Car - Mutya Buena | | • | Lullaby - Editors | | • | Englishman In New York - Razorlight | | • | Crazy For You - Groove Armada | | • | It Must Be Love - Paolo Nutini | | • | All That She Wants - The Kooks | | • | All I Need - Mark Ronson | | • | Stillness In Time - Calvin Harris | | • | No Diggity - Klaxons | | • | Lovefool - Just Jack | | • | Ray Of Light - Natasha Bedingfield | | • | Drinking in L.A. - The Twang | | • | The Great Beyond - The Fray | | • | Teenage Dirtbag - Girls Aloud | | • | Like I Love You - Maximo Park | | • | Don't Look Back Into The Sun - The View | | • | Toxic - Hard-Fi | | • | Father & Son - Enemy | | • | Steady As She Goes - Corinne Bailey Rae |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Radio 1 certainly isn?t short of detractors these days and all but the most vehement Moyles groupies would probably agree that its glory days are now a matter solely for historians. But out of the nostalgia whipped up by their 40th birthday celebrations came one fine idea that could only really have been pulled off with the aid of their unique clout (and, of course, the licence fee)?-40 of today?s biggest acts covering tracks from each of the station?s 40 years in existence, and building on the popular Live Lounge franchise in the process. The Raconteurs? bash at infamous Peel favourite "Teenage Kicks" has gusto and a genuine southern twist, Lily Allen?s "Don?t Get Me Wrong" is sweet and suits her talk-to-the-hand nonchalance, Editors? version of The Cure?s "Lullaby" is endearingly brooding, Foo Fighters? "Band on the Run" is as effective and Foo Fighters-esque as you might expect and Maximo Park?s slick reworking of Justin Timberlake?s "Like I Love You", as strange a premise as that might sound (and thus key to this album?s appeal), just works. On the downside some contributions are inevitably pedestrian; Razorlight?s "Englishman in New York" is anaemic and unfeeling, The Street?s utterly misjudged "Your Song" is room-clearing karaoke playing to none of his strengths and what exactly is the point of The View covering The Libertines anyway!? But all in all it's a unique collection from a station still in a unique, if no longer important, position. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 What have we done to deserve this?! November 16, 2008
A collection of classic tracks from the last 40 years as covered by many current rock & pop 'darlings'. Sounds great, right?!
Sadly, this fails to push any of the right buttons. You'll find a mixture of drab, straight, unimaginative takes on 90s pop/rock (Mutya's version of Fast Car, Editors version of Lullaby) and some messy, angry, kiddy-tantrum versions of 80s classics (Gossip do 'Careless Whisper', Pigeon Detectives do 'The Power of Love'). Murdered classics from the 70s and late 60s are also in abundance, with The Feeling, McFly and The Kaiser Chiefs all doing their worst.
If sounds like your bag, then go right ahead. Personally I'd rather listen to a pneumatic drill for two hours. Absolutely dire.
Oppurtunity missed the knocker March 31, 2008
Scarey to say but I have been around for just a bit longer than Radio 1 and boy have I suffered through the mainstream pap over the last 25 years. This album had soooo many options but like a dart player with the DT's it missed the board too many times. Despite the fact that I thought most of the 70's stunk as far a music went they faired far better than the 80's and 90's. Mr Peel died far too early and must be spinning in his grave to think this is the best representation of radio 1 over 40 years shame shame shame. The report card states some potential but far too lazy to achieve anything. Final question - did someone hide the key to the vaults?
 Quite mixed results but definitely worth checking out March 11, 2008
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I was intrigued when Radio 1 first announced this project. Over a two week period they played four of the songs from this album each day to celebrate their 40th birthday and thus, there is one song for each year. Like others have said, sometimes the song choice is questionable when there were so many better songs in the year (2005 anyone?).
That said though, there's some real good stuff on here. The early Kaiser Chiefs, Robbie Williams, Franz Ferdinand/Girls Aloud tracks are charming while the Sugababes and Kylie's versions are sophisticated and classy updates of classics. On the whole, i think the more recent songs on the second disc work better. In fact, i'd even go as far to say that some of them aren't just good, but great.
Girls Aloud's version of Teenage Dirtbag is pop at its best while the Twang's Drinking In LA is hauntingly beautiful and Maximo Park's Like I Love You is awesome. Ironically, one of the songs i was most scared about hearing was Natasha Bedingfield's version of Madonna's Ray Of Light - probably one of my favourite songs of all time - is actually one of the best covers on here. It might not match the original but it's an extremely good attempt.
I think overall, those covers that stay most faithful to the originals are the best on here, the Klaxons and Keane being prime examples. The Keane version of Under Pressure especially is amazing, another true highlight of this album.
Of course, this album has a lot of faults too. Many of the covers are simply average and forgettable and many are outright bad. Prime examples is the awful Mika/Armand Van Helden dance version of the Police and the Streets version of Your Song is just a complete and utter joke (probably the worst one on here). Just Jack's Lovefool and Calvin Harris's Stillness In Time are pretty rubbish too.
And then of course there's the Hard-Fi version of Britney's Toxic - this had the potential to be amazing and there are elements of it which work but overall it again comes across as a jokey low-fi version, which is a real shame.
On the whole, the album is above average to good. Yes, there's a lot of duff tracks on here and people who aren't open to covers will despise this but i think for a project it makes for an interesting compilation and is worth buying for the tracks which work well.
All the other reviewers are muso miseries....this album is great fun March 7, 2008
How can people say that the bands haven't strayed very far from their own genres?? Hello?? Klaxons doing Blackstreet's 'No Diggity', Stereophonics doing Hot Chocolate's 'You Sexy Thing', The Streets doing Elton John's 'Your Song' - it seems quite a departure to me.
Ok, so some of the songs aren't as great, I could live without hearing KT Tunstall doing 'Let's Stick Together' again, but this album has some great moments. Shame everyone else seems to have lost their sense of humour!
 Proof that the original is better. February 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hear all your favourite songs from over the years watered down. And in the case of The Streets covering Your Song (Murdered)!
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