A Rocktopia / Fireworks Magazine album review by John Tucker: The snappy title and cutesy artwork give way to a double CD compilation of Birmingham's finest's first fifteen or so years. It's pretty much a game of two halves: the seventeen largely opulent tracks on the first disc take things from 1978's debut album 'Kingdom Of Madness' to the start of the Polydor Years, and demonstrate why the band were so revered in the UK but seemingly unable to make any headway elsewhere; the second disc concentrates largely on the three albums of that major label period and rounds off with a couple of oddities. It all pretty much flows in sequence, so you can decide whether the Polydor years showed the band either taking a more mature and /or accessible approach to songwriting or being moulded and forced to come up with 'hits' by desperate A&R men. http://ping.fm/Oahzx
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