Radio 1 - Established 1967

This album was brought out in 2007 to celebrate 40 years of Radio One and what a great idea. Here you have 40 songs, from 1967- 2007 one from each year Radio One has been on air, sung by 40 of today's biggest artists. Ok, so not all of them are as good as or even equal the originals and some of them kill them completely but all are interesting to say the least. As a concept for an album it's very entertaining, and 40 songs isn't bad value for money either. In my opinion by far the best cover is The Gossip covering George Michael's 'Careless Whisper' from 1984. They make it their own and it's the most original take on any of the songs covered. Hard ...  Read the complete review

Radio 1 Established 1967 is a compilation album released in 2007 to celebrate 40 years of Radio 1 being on air. The album brings together 40 modern artists who have re-recorded hits from the last 40 years. Each artist has chosen a song that was released (or in some cases re-released) in any year from 1967-2007. Thus we the listeners are given a fantastic compilation album featuring everyone from Kaiser Chiefs to James Morrison to Kylie Minogue. With 40 songs in total, spread over two discs, it would be nigh on impossible for me to go in to detail about each and every track. So instead I'll try to give an overall flavour of the album before picking my best and ...  Read the complete review

To celebrate 40 years of Radio 1 on air in 2007, 40 different current artists were chosen and each asked to choose a track to cover from a specific year. The result is this compilation, which covers a different track from each of the 40 years that Radio 1 had been running for up until then. And what a selection! What struck me most as I read the back of the case was how unlikely the combinations of current artists and old songs were, with strange combos as McFly doing A Town Called Malice and Gossip doing Careless Whisper. It looked awesome, and my wife wanted it, so I bought it for her, and it wasn't long before we were listening to it and being thoroughly ...  Read the complete review

I agree in the majority with the previous reviewer of this album that it is a bit of a mixed bunch. There are some really excellent cover versions and there are some that really should never have seen the light of day. I have now made a playlist on my i-pod of my favourite songs on the album and got rid of the ones that just don't work for me. The track I have played most on this album has to to the Twang version of Bran Van 3000's Drinking in LA. I loved the original but I love this version even more - the quality of the lead singers's voice is just fantastic and brings so much depth to the track . There is one track which I have ...  Read the complete review