Kim Wilde Album: “Very Best Of”

This is an amazing collection of Kim Wilde's hits on 1 CD, it has a lot of best of 80's and some best of 90's..

Of course super hits Kids in America, Combodia and who can forget smash You Keep Me Hangin On, that went # 1 in USA.

Kim Wilde has another excellent cover on this album If i can't have you, which was a top 10 all over the world including USA dance club-chart. How can you miss pure Love is Holy written by Rick Nowels.

Of course sit back and enjoy the suprise of this album New song called Loved, its an amazing track # 16, very pop-dance with some electronic flavor song. If you like Madonna, Kylie or Blondie you would love the Very best of Kim

First off, I want to get it out in the open and confess my admiration for Kim Wilde's undeniable good looks. She is a woman who truly just got more beautiful with age. "The Very Best of Kim Wilde" is a U.K. import on EMI and the booklet features some rare photos of Kim in her early '80s punky phase complete with a Pat Benatar-like hairdo. This particular set (which is not the first Kim Wilde Best-of compilation to hit the market) was released in 2001, so Kim would have been around 40 on its cover (having been born in late 1960). Man oh man does she look gorgeous in this photo! I could literally stare at this picture for hours on end. But I digress.

The fact remains though that Kim is one of those rare pop artists who is just as strong on genuine talent as she is in the looks department, and this is a great retrospective of her career from her beginnings with her first hit "Kids in America" in 1981 all the way through the '80s and beyond. It shows her evolution from her early new wave sound to becoming a worldwide pop siren later on that decade.

Before buying this compilation I was really only familiar with her from her one and only American hit, the Supremes cover "You Keep Me Hanging On" and its seductively sexy accompanying video from '86, but while being great, that is not even her best song here. But it's the point where she really hit her stride in mainstream pop music and this set includes tracks from the "Close" album that would serve as follow-up in 1988, the first being "You Came." This song is a work of pop music bliss and perfectly captures the sound and feel of the late '80s. It is so beautiful and uplifting that it can give you a new outlook on life. Also included here from that disc is the wonderful ballad "Four Letter Word," where Kim really shows her mellow and tender side and dynamic vocal range. As far as the early new wave-style material here, "Water on Glass" is an ultra catchy anthem with a quick tempo and with lyrics addressing tinnitus (ringing in the ears), of which I myself am a reformed sufferer, so this song bears special meaning for me. To me though her ultimate masterpiece came in 1982 with the non-LP single cut "Child Come Away." Kim would have been 21 when this was released, the exact same age that the likes of Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath) and Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols) were when they similarly reached the early apexes of their careers. Kim affirmed her newfound era of adulthood on this truly brilliant track, whose lyrics deal with somewhat dark subject matter, meaning it was not one of her bigger hits. But it's so musically advanced that it mesmerizes the listener to an arguably higher state of consciousness, with its striking chorus and entrancing and trippy keyboard/synthesizer effects.

All in all, a fabulous compilation from one of the '80s best female pop artists. Once I sampled tracks off it on Amazon it was an instant purchase for me. Truly great music from a truly beautiful woman. Highly recommended.