Sensible [Import]

1. Sensible

2. Darina

3. Odessa

4. Ma Vérité

5. J'Aime un Homme Marie

6. Infidele

7. Si Tu Veux Plus d'Moi

8. Je l'Aime

9. Robes

10. Réversibilité

11. Autre Amour

Tracks:

Happy Talk
Croydon
Nice Cup of Tea
Brenda, Pts. 1-2
Yanks With Guns
Martha the Mouth
(What d'Ya Give) The Man Who's Gotten Everything
Wot
Royal Rave Up
It Would Be So Nice
Power of Love
I'm a Spider
I Love Her
Glad It's All Over
Stop the World
Sir Donald's Son
It's Hard to Believe I'm Not
Thanks for the Night
There Are More Snakes Than Ladders

Album Description

Budget price compilation for the Damned co-founder & punk icon. Highlights include, 'Happy Talk', 'Glad It's All Over', & 'Wot'. 19 tracks. Spectrum. 2003.

Album Details

This Compilation features Music from his Post Damned Days, his Highly Successful Debut Solo Album "Women and Captains First" and Follow Up "Power of Love" featuring Quirky Girl Trio Dolly Mixture.

Customer Reviews:

The Man Who's Gotten Everything !.......2007-07-03

Captain Sensible (diamond geezer, one of the best, blah blah), is in an admirably unique position.
For a start, his musical legacy is actually rather good. He produces sharp, warm little pop tunes at the drop of a beret, that DO stand up to close scrutiny . If you (like me) have a deep and profound understanding of everything to do with pop music, you'll spot very quickly that the trick here is to take him completely seriously.
This achieved, you can then begin to position him in pop's hierarchy, and of course start making sage pronouncements that he's better than Springsteen, solo Weller and Robbie Williams. Not really that startling when you think about it. Listen to `Martha the Mouth' and name me one song from the over-rated trinity aforementioned (yeay!) that's better than it. Cant do it can you? Don't worry, you've just challenged `absolute rock truths' number273, and triumphed easily. Feel good? Come on in, the waters fine.
Secondly he has a priceless punk pedigree as a guitar player in those evil masters of dark, dry- ice inhaling, satanic, manic, violent disorder (etc) the Damned! Gasp!
Think what you will, they were there first and deserve some respect for that, erm...and that's about all. Better than Chelsea....maybe.
Best of all in my opinion, is the fact he seems to have some sort of cod-philosophy, which he expounds slivers of every now and again, without ever having any intention (or intellectual ability!) of revealing its, obviously deeply subversive, ideology. This is absolutely brilliant! Imagine Madonna having-something-interesting-to-say-to-her-fans, or deadly serious rock kids NOT falling sound asleep every time Bono opens his mouth. You're imagining a bigger, brighter world.
He's embraced the pop deity, sold his soul to the fun-demon, and he's writing things like `And now the time has come to say, farewell dad and your baked-beans, and the tv set, that I blew.' in a song about selling out (the punk rockers' perennial dilemma) and moving to America! This, of course, aint NEVER gonna happen, but why he's not a bigger star mystifies me. Why has he not replaced Richard Madeley or Gordon Ramsey? Why don't we see him, mad as a badger, EVERY DAY!? Think how much better our kids would turn out, watch the crime figures plummet!
`And rice doesn't burn, in a Japanese urn, it's reality!' Is it just me? This stuff is terrific! Leaves you with a smile, and who, in this decade of total pop miserablism, is gonna knock that?
Madly looking forward to the dream duet of Sensible and that other neglected genius; John Shuttleworth. Seriously.

One geat song is missing.......2007-03-05

Where is ONE CHRISTMAS CATALOG!!!!! One Christmas Catalog is the best Captian Sensible songs out there and I heard it in a clothing store last Christmas. It should be on this cd and Happy Talk should be deleted.

Captain Sensible.......2005-09-30

I purchased this album as a mistake as it was the wrong "Captain" group. Best mistake I've made for quite a while. What a cracker. If you're a baby boomer like me and long for the music that rekindles your best times get this one. If there's a weak track I'd like to know which one it is.

Category of it's own.......2005-08-04

Captain sensible is inspired in his own english pop world.Happy,funny,absurd,ironic and melodic songs.Some are good some are bad,but still essential for the 80's.Listen to the sublime and divine"Glad It's all over"over and over again.

WE WILL TAKE IT, BABY!.......2004-04-15

Yeah, OK, it's not complete but.... with an artist as prolific as Captain Sensible, how could one disc ever hope to capture all of his incredibly exceptional output? there's NO WAY! The Capt'n was so sly in his ability to write a pure pop song and make it sound dangerous (with D. Vanian) or innocuous/affecting in his solo ventures. It's just unbelievable that his cover of "Relax (Don't Do It)" wasn't included! I play that on my turntable at parties in Palm Desert and the reaction is, to say the least, enthusiastic. The movie dialogue from "Coma" is especially cool, nobody can ever place it, yet this is a song that will dwell in obscurity forever it seems. Finally, I must say that these A&M songs were being held captive FOR YEARS by his former American label, and they were EXTREMELY reluctant to let go of them, for whatever reason. Legal eagles always seem to get in the way of art. But the scarcity of these songs make this disc all the more essential. The fact that they are reissued at last on CD is a pure revelation and those that have even a passing knowledge of The Damned should take advantage. And, the choice producer Tony Mansfield (the first to capture Ray's pop sensibility and expand on it!) should get credit as well for an incredible ear. I have bought no less than 11 copies of this CD for close friends and every single one of them have been overwhelmed by the Captain cornucopia on display, and the dividend pays overwhelming rewards. Ignore that awful Cleopatra "best of" comp at all costs. In my opinion, this comes closest to capturing Sir Burns' spirit, verve and intrepid endeavors. Cheers to the Captain and his incredible creative output during the 1980's - Dude, you're immortal. Too bad Rat couldn't take the heat.

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