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| Best Of Art Of Noise | 
 enlarge | Artist: Art Of Noise
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (37 reviews)
Sales Rank: 29634
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 74108
UPC: 010467410823
EAN: 0010467410823
ASIN: B000003MU8
Release Date: January 14, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Opus 4 | | • | Yebo! | | • | Instruments of Darkness (All of Us Are One People) | | • | Robinson Crusoe - The Art of Noise, Reverberi | | • | Peter Gunn - The Art of Noise, Mancini, Henry | | • | Paranoimia | | • | Legacy | | • | Dragnet '88 - The Art of Noise, Schumann, Walter | | • | Kiss - The Art of Noise, Prince | | • | Something Always Happens |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 32 more reviews...
 bad mastering May 11, 2008
This CD contains some of the best of The Art of Noise but the mastering is awful. On Paranomia which fetures Max Headroom the mastering is so bad that his voice is barely audible. Why no Beatbox on this CD? All in all 5 stars for the great songs but 1 star for the mastering. Don't buy this CD, get the songs on their other CD's.
 And if music were processed like noise? September 8, 2007
Superb work on voice that is mostly reduced to syllables over and over reproduced and repeated with at times a change of intonation. English at first it very fast moves to some African language. And instruments come into the picture but only to accompany these voices with a rhythm or with a harmonic background or packaging. The African rhythm of Yebo is truly close to a trance beating the rhythm at least three times faster than the voice is singing. They create an amazing sound harmony in some tracks by associating the instruments and the voices in all possible ways. The guitar in Peter Gunn sounds so much like some Ennio Morricone music turned slightly urban jazzy and corrugated into some strange never stable patchwork of sounds coming who knows where from. They pretend we are quite safe here, but Paranoimia is by far a trip into the sound of some Hollywood old films that are mixing their atmospheres by providing some notes of their sound tracks and some noises from the human characters that utter some words or just some syllables behind. Is it a celluloid dream? Probably but it does not turn sour like in Clive Barker, just a little bit more than slightly disjunctive. And that is the main idea in this music. It plays on the musical legacy of fifty years of American musical background and uses this legacy as pure noise it works upon in order to produce another level of music by far both deeper because revealing what we have been manipulated into listening to and hearing, and more eerie and airlike taking us off the ground and floating us over the lawn of some Oz castle. Dragnet is sure there to enforce the law and its repetitive injunctions you have to follow because they are repeated and no other reason, but what a drag, these cops who are dragging us down and playing the police drag-queen to maybe manage to make us think they are just full of sex appeal, that their police force is sex appeal and we have to enjoy it, to get our pleasure satisfied with their truncheons. They apply the processing of noise in order to make music to normal instruments and voices and they produce a music that is like from behind the wings and under the pit of the theater, the deep underground realms that is only inhabited with ghosts and other ghouls. Surprising and strange.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
 BLUE vs. PINK Versions revealed ! October 21, 2006
I finally decided to upgrade my A.O.N. cassetes to CD,
and I had forgotten there were two versions of the 'Best Of A.O.N.'- blue AND pink- which I still resent today as when I was first was forced to choose-
(and there is confusion when the color specification is missing - so hopefully this helps you to choose the color that's right for you.
When I first discovered A.O.N., I was enthralled.
I opted then for the BLUE version on cassette because it had more songs and boasted the extended and 'AON' mixes(which are essentially just extended post-release), but fear it's demise as cassette decks become harder to replace.
Over the years, I came to accept this BLUE version as the definitive collection of A.O.N., but, alas, some of the extended,
mixes were kind of long-winded (like this version of 'Dragnet 88' with a Dan Ackroyd sampled vocal overdose,
and the superfluous, repetetive orchestrals).
'Moments In Love' , with it's pulsing, hypnotic texture had to grow on me through relistening, is on this version.
The extended 'Paranoimia' featuring Max Headroom here (6:30)-as noted in one of the other reviews,
is not the radio version, but this should have been the only extended re-mix
(I love all three Paranoimia versions though, as this sampled, beatbox style was the distinctive, fun, A.O.N. sound )
The glaring differance of BLUE is the inclusion of 'Beatbox (Diversion One)', Close(To The Edit),
and the extended mix of 'Paranoimia' and 'Peter Gunn Theme' (which begs editing), but this
sampled-techno-beat style IS the art of Art Of Noise.
'Moments In Love' is also on this BLUE version. It's pulsing, hypnotic style IS the art of A.O.N.
BLUE contains the best (long) version of Princes' 'Kiss', featuring Tom Jones - -
this is the main reason I'd reccomend BLUE as the desert island selection..
The PINK edition, more considerate in regard for succinctness, has fewer of the
signature beat driven tracks and sampling technique tracks that distinguished A.O.N.
The biggest departure comes in the first half :
'Yebo' , 'Instruments Of Darkness', and 'Robinson Crusoe' replace
'Beatbox','Moments In Love', and Close(To The Edit) from the BLUE version
Shorter versions of 'Paranoimia', and 'Peter Gunn' are refreshing, and I do prefer the female spoken
intro to 'Paranoimia'
-but 'Kiss featuring Tom Jones' on the blue version is the quintessential version.
I reccomend the Blue version AND the Pink version combined - without Dan Ackroyd at all ! I hate remixes as a marketing ploy! What a tool!
So I went with PiNK on CD...so now, I still have to afford a Blue one too
on a future purchase since my cassette is still good...
[* It should be a LAW to include release dates on CD'S!!! ]
~David Galloway
Noise is the Art! March 9, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ok, I'm going to preface this with a quick mention of the fact that when I clicked on the search result link, it was the version of this CD with the pink cover. However, once on the page with the details, it was the blue cover CD image that was displayed. They are 2 distinctly different albums. But both are great and deserving of 5 stars. My review is of the pink cover issue.
The reason for the different coloured covers was to distinguish them. The pink release features single mixes of some of the tracks on the blue release, and also tracks not on the blue issue. I'm sure part of the reason was to encourage fans to buy both. The other is that the pink cover came out after another album was released and they wanted to include tracks from that, in case fans hadn't bought that album.
'The Best Of The Art Of Noise' 1992 (in pink), opens with the same track as the 1988 (in blue), the delightful "Opus 4" and its multi-layered vocals. The next song is the single mix of "Yebo!" off their 1989 album 'Below The Waste' and features South African group Mahlathini and The Mahotella Queens. Though I don't speak Zulu, the song is still great listening fun!
Also included is the hard-to-find radio version of "Paranoimia" featuring Max Headroom. I have always wanted this version, but I could only find the original album track and the extended version from the 1988 'Best Of' disc.
Another must-have track from this version of the hits package, is the Prodigy remix of "Instruments Of Darkness". This hyper configuration of the 'In Visible Silence' tune will get you up and out of your seat! A great find for club music enthusiasts. It works just as well for regular folks.
So for both dedicated AON fans and those seeking them out for the first time, this is an excellent CD to be had by all.
 Best of Art of Noise February 24, 2006
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Of all of the songs they have composed, I think their best should of been of better songs.
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