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We Love the Pirates
Various Artists
We Love the Pirates
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock, Classic Rock
 
  •  Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (24) - Disc #2

Subtitled - Charting The Big L Fab 40. UK compilation celebrating the golden era of pirate radio drawn from Radio London's Fab 40, Jan 65 - Jan 67. Artists include The Kinks, The Ivy, Donovan, The Sorrows, The Shots, The...  more »

     
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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: We Love the Pirates
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Castle Music UK
Release Date: 12/16/2003
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock, Classic Rock
Styles: Soul, British Invasion
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2

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Subtitled - Charting The Big L Fab 40. UK compilation celebrating the golden era of pirate radio drawn from Radio London's Fab 40, Jan 65 - Jan 67. Artists include The Kinks, The Ivy, Donovan, The Sorrows, The Shots, The Uglys, Leapy Lee, The Searchers, The Rockin' Berries, David Bowie, & man more. Includes 47 tracks punctuated by a powerfully-nostalgic, non-stop barrage of short, sharp, jingles & station idents, 16-page foldout inlay, packaged in a slipcase. Castle.
 

CD Reviews

GOOD AUDIO TIME CAPSULE (3.5 to 4.0 stars)
LIQUID8R | 09/07/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Yeah nice - enjoyed this as a pretty good recreation of what you could have heard on Big L back in the day. Some harder-to-find semi-legit audios of actual broadcasts are around, but they are generally rough quality and include some DJ chatter that sounds a bit dated and inane now - by contrast the station IDs and jingles on these discs are good audio and keep the pace going. The hard-core sixties collectors will know from the tracklist that it's probably not for them as some tracks are a bit too familiar, but there are enough lesser-known goodies in there that typified the pirates (imagine the beeb's reaction to "Stop you got me going" or "oops" ??) and a few "shouldabinbigger" tracks too (why wasn't Episode Six "Morning Dew" a bone-fide hit ? - probably too many versions around at the same time.) Have also seen some negative comments that some of the music gets close to "easy-listening pop", but that misses the point that a big part of the pirate audience were housewives at home with young kids. If it wasn't for these 2 points "I'd give it five". And finally - old Cuddly Ken was a bit ahead of his time wasn't he ? - if he did all those jingles and things with bits of audio tape, imagine what he would be doing with digital technology now ??

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