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Decade In The Sun | 
| Artist: Stereophonics
Label: Mercury
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 214
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001215402
UPC: 602517806993
EAN: 0602517806993
ASIN: B001ECE6D0
Release Date: November 10, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | Dakota | | • | The Bartender And The Thief | | • | Just Looking | | • | Have a Nice Day | | • | Local Boy In The Photograph | | • | Maybe Tomorrow | | • | Superman | | • | Pick a Part That's New | | • | My Own Worst Enemy | | • | I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio | | • | You're My Star | | • | Mr Writer | | • | Step On my Old Size Nines | | • | Devil | | • | It Means Nothing | | • | A Thousand Trees | | • | Vegas Two Times | | • | Traffic | | • | More Life in a Tramps Vest | | • | Handbags and Gladrags |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 missing so much good stuff December 2, 2008
other people have mentioned strangely missing 'greatest hits' tracks. but what about "Since I told you it's over" - heart-wrenching uber-pop somehow ended on the cutting room floor. Odd to say the least.
 the best of the best November 26, 2008
this is a ex best of cd from start to finish it rocks this band are brillant buy this cd you will not be disappointed xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Enter the Fireless, Gummy, Whiny Dragon November 20, 2008
4 out of 38 found this review helpful
Stereophonics are one of those cynical and unenlightened band's that leave you flabbergasted that they've achieved ANY success at all.
They have nothing about them.
They're from Wales for one thing, and there not much you can point to in that woefully tiny country's honour's list during the last 50 years - in fact it's been a disaster. Lousy football team, dreary anthem, beautiful but dying language and in the face of all this, appalling rot dished up by futile nuggets like Tom Jones, the unbelievably talent-less Cerys Matthews, drab Funeral for a Friend, embarrassing Goldie Looking Chain and finally, at the top of the tree, overcast, bland, disinterested Stereophonics.
You know you're in trouble when 'A Decade in the Sun' is the best they can come up with by way of a greatest hits compilation, and, as sure as day follows night, it's completely worthless on every front. Banal, sub-Rod Stewart MOR, car music, (or at least, the nodding dog in the back window) cover versions, slow, untimely grinding; 'Have a Nice Day', 'Handbags and Gladrags', 'Mama Told Me Not To Come' (with Tom Jones, a genuine contender for the Worst Single Ever Released.) - petty, listless background tomfoolery. Synthetic, demoralizing and grey.
Their biggest problem is, that there's no talent anywhere in the group. Basic song writing skills are sadly AWOL, no hooks to snag you, no witty or clever lyrics to engage you. They seem to get by using the well suspect, and monstrously overused deceit of the obscene 'Rock Anthem' - the last bombed-out refuge of pop 'musicians' who transparently have nothing at all to say. Mosh-pit diving, fist clenching standards - but even here, the last refuge of the truly non-descript, they dismayingly fail.
They're not even truly awful, (that'd be a blessing - it would make writing about them much easier) they're not really worth words, emotions, any depth of thought or argument. They're just sort of there, plant-pots to a man, peripatetically moseying around, solidly locked into all the music genre clichés feared most.
Yes, black leather vests and shades, clinging to the insignificant torsos and bonces of clueless, safe, Welsh rock-being's. With a conformist non-style that makes a nest of tables look dynamic and a sound that's almost cylindrical and definitely over-secure, Stereophonics are getting away with a heinous amount of cultural crime. They are the Norris Cole's of modern pop, the Vauxhall Vectra's of rock. They make the similarly perfidious Super Furry Animals (and I think I'm beginning to twig why they all have naff names..) sound like Oscar Wilde.
Ten years of these par-boiled leeks then - ten years of the orthodox and the ordinary.
 Almost... November 11, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
How can you miss out T-shirt Suntan, arguably the best pop song since Teenage Kicks? Still, not a bad collection from the Cwmaman boys.
 Not so sure November 10, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I love the band, I love the albums. Not a massive fan of this release. It's got the songs which you will hear on the radio, but to the fans who love the albums as albums, its not a great investment. Starting with the most popular songs and going down pretty much. Not how I would have ordered it, if anything, start with the oldest and then show the audio progression in the sound. The new songs are good, however, as anyone who has the You're My Star single, they will tell you that the b-side is their preferred track! Forever should be on there, and it isn't!
A good christmas present for a casual fan who likes hearing their stuff on the radio, massive fans, make your own playlists!
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