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Fade To Grey: The Best Of Visage | 
| Artist: Visage
Label: Polydor
Category: Music
List Price: £5.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 6221
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 46
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731452105325
EAN: 0731452105325
ASIN: B000001E3G
Release Date: March 18, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Fade To Grey | | • | Mind Of A Toy | | • | Visage | | • | We Move | | • | Tar | | • | In The Year 2525 | | • | The Anvil | | • | Night Train | | • | Pleasure Boys | | • | The Damned Don't Cry | | • | Love Glove | | • | Fade To Grey |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Missed Opportunity November 1, 2008
This is basically a very shoddy and thrown together compilation. With a dance culture being such an integral part of the whole New Romantic/Synthpop world it seems nonsensical to me that the versions of the songs on this compilation are not the 12 inch mixes. And it's not as if the 12 inches of tracks like "Fade To Grey", "The Damned Don't Cry" and "Night Train" were those barely extended longer versions that plagued us when 12 inch versions started to become commonplace in pop as opposed to disco and funk at the start of the 1980s. Visage 12 inches as with a lot of their electropop ilk were often imaginatively extended and so far superior to the 7inch edit.And they're still not available on CD and they wonder why people download for free.
 NOT the extended version of "Fade To Grey" March 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I ordered this cd over Visage's first album "Visage" for one reason: I thought the version of "Fade To Grey" included here was the "extended version".. as stated by the first reviewer here "A Customer". Be in no doubt.. the version here is the REGULAR version we all probably have elsewhere. How disappointing as I thought finally I was getting the 6 minute Dance Mix. (I've also seen this tracklisted elsewhere on other sites). This time the tracklisting provided here by Amazon is absolutely accurate. So.. yes Visage's "Best Of.." but NO EXTENDED "FADE TO GREY" on this disc.
Fading to grey January 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The good tracks on this are really good. The album is a near complete record of the band's fortunes. When all was well in the band, the music was fantastic, creative and different. However, as time went on the disagreements started, band members began to drift away and the music began to change.
Enjoy a collection of their biggest tracks. Even now 'fade to grey' and 'mind of a toy' have not been matched. Two or three of the other tracks are nearly as good.
So there you have it. A real reminder of what might have been, in happier times. Certainly enough to be a very worthy addition to your collection.
New-Romantic synth heaven! August 21, 2001
27 out of 32 found this review helpful
Take one part 'Visage', one part 'The Anvil', then add 'Fade to Grey' and a dodgy 'B' side and mix.There are two reasons why this album is a must-have; 1)Fade to Grey (extended remix - classic!) and 2)Damned Don't Cry (who said synthesizers aren't soulful?). Both brilliant examples of early eighties synth-pop up there with Ultravox's 'Vienna' and Human Leagues' 'Dare'. The Ultravox connection - i.e. Midge Ure - is very noticeable on this compilation and he's clearly the musical director on the earlier tracks. Compare 'Fade to Grey' with 'Love Glove'(released after he'd left) and you'll see what I mean! The CD inclusion of 'Love Glove' or the Bassheads remix (which is an interesting early 90's dance track though nowhere near as good as the original) don't really add anything, but give you some idea of what happened to Visage when they stopped producing quality pop tunes. If you can ignore the slightly poor 'In the year 2525','Tar' and 'Pleasure Boys' (a bit of CD programming might come in useful here) then this is a definitive 80's synth-pop album of the highest order!
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