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DION & THE BELMONTS "the best of..." cd,1996.

my dad loved these guys back in the day and 'the wanderer' is still one of his favourite songs of all time....
so with him loving them i sort of grew up listening to them a fair bit....nowadays though, im not that keen on them...they sound dull,flat and the songs for the most part just seem to go nowhere fast, especially the Doo-Wop ones which are lame,boring pieces of crap IMO...
they only really made a couple of true early 1950s/1960s rock tracks IMO, and those are the only two on here that get top marks from me..."runaround sue" and "the wanderer" are those tracks....and those two tracks alone encompass everything that rock and roll was back then...
pretty close to half the tracks here just dont make the grade for me so this one barely scrapes through as an album i like....another artist from that period i find to be overrated and relying on the strength of a couple of songs to create a legend is Del Shannon and his best of set is currently near the top of my 'to play' stack and it will be interesting to see if he scores any better than Dion....

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: any one of about nine of them!
best track: either "the wanderer" or "runaround sue"

tracks:

1. a teenager in love **
2. i wonder why **
3. where or when *
4. every little thing i do *
5. lovers prayer **
6. no one knows *
7. thats y desire *
8. dont pity me *
9. in the still of the night *
10.will you still love me *
11.runaround sue ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k live
12.lonely teenager **
13.sandy **
14.lovers who wander **
15.runaway girl **
16.queen of the hop **
17.lonely world **
18.king without a queen *
19.the kissin' game *
20.tonight tonight **
21.the wanderer ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m6lymJy57E live

3s=2
2s=10
1s=9

rating: 1.7 or 5.7/10