Saturday 30 July 2011

Wilde shots

Following in the footsteps of greats such as David Bowie, John Lennon and, er, Andrea Corr, the ever fancy-able Kim Wilde will also be releasing her very own covers album "Snapshots", featuring fourteen of her fave songs from the past thirty years or so.
I was of course curious to find out the tracklisting, and found that thereby hangs a funny tale!
Kim's official site wanted to reveal the chosen tracks to the eager public three at a time, starting with East 17's "It's Alright" (which I've never heard..is it the same as the Pet Shop Boys' song?), The Cure's Inbetween Days (excellent choice!) and About You Know (ah-ah--oo-oo...). However, those hard working Teutonics at amazon.de made eine kleine cock-up and accidently published the whole tracklist on their site . .oopz, ja! Now it's there for all to see as well as on wikipedia and other sites.

Further choices from Kim include Black's Wonderful Life, the Buzzcock's Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone), Erasure's A Little Respect and Mike Oldfield's To France, so could be a bit of a cracker.. (a bit like Kim really). Final track is David Bowie's Kooks, which I'd never heard before. The Kooks got their name from it, apparently

Any road, here's Kim (phwoooar) in 1980-something with a spot of Water on Glass.



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