VH 1 Storytellers Music Cd

Billy Idol - VH 1 Storytellers

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VH-1 Storytellers      Artist : Billy Idol      List Price : $16.98 USD        Your Price : $13.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2002-02-26      Studio : Capitol      Label : Capitol      Avg. Customer Rating : (15 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for VH 1 Storytellers      A Worthy Idol      Rating:      It's hard to fault this pleasing album. Billy Idol is right on the money and belts out a set for posterity. The songlist speaks for itself...not much else to say!     Customer Reviews for VH 1 Storytellers Cd      Bloody Awesome Sounds!!      Rating:      This is easily the best Billy Idol CD to date. Not only is it chock full of Billy's earliest and greatest hits but is so full of raw rock and roll energy, it is one of my overall favorite CDs I own. (And yes, I own hundreds of music CDs!) This CD leaves you feeling satisfied and throughly rocked out. Idol's newest rendition of LA Woman makes the Door's version very weak and dull by comparison. Ever since Billy debut'ed this newest song version - he owned it! Every single song on this CD is fantastic. His best ever. Editorial Reviews for VH 1 Storytellers Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Billy Idol, the original Gen X-er, remains one of the decade's enduring symbols--for better or worse. It's debatable whether this live career retrospective (taped in New York City for the VH1 Storytellers show in April, 2001) is intended to burnish the legacy of Idol's recently stalled career or, more likely, is an attempt to resuscitate it in time for the expected rising tide of '80s nostalgia. (I've got my parachute pants ready; how about you?) An intimate, largely acoustic outing co-helmed by longtime guitarist and songwriting partner Steve Stevens, it's a performance that succeeds by underplaying Idol's MTV-familiar, platinum-haired, curled-lip, and pumping-fist antics and imagery in favor of welcome doses of musical dynamics and scaled-back vocal drama. Indeed, when he drops the snarl, Idol can be a stylist of emphatic conviction, as he proves repeatedly on this set, whose songs range from his days as frontman for early U.K. punk stars Generation X ("Ready Steady Go," "Kiss Me Deadly," "Dancing With Myself") through his prime run of '80s solo hits ("White Wedding," "Rebel Yell," et al.) to more emotionally involved, if less successful, late '80s fare like "Cradle of Love" and "Don't Need a Gun." This is a reinvention for sure, but it's one that cuts beneath Idol's sometimes-insufferable mannerisms to find the musical worth beneath. --Jerry McCulley