Fair Warning: Best and More

Let's be honest shall we? There's an awful lot to be cynical about concerning Best and More. For a start it's not very long at all since the release of Talking Ain't Enough - Live In Tokyo, then there's the inescapable fact that Fair Warning are an unreconstructed pop metal band from Germany who appear to think that it is still 1987. Allied to that, they are as the cliché goes, big in Japan which is always funny to those of us who live in the UK and like to think we're above everybody else. Surprisingly enough, Best and More is a compilation album and there's a school of thought that these types of albums are merely a cash-in for unscrupulous records companies and often that is the case.

Here we have two CDs of decent if not awe-inspiring melodic rock which pretty much sums up the band's career to date. However, for a band which has already released Live in Japan as well as Live at Home and the aforementioned Talking Ain't Enough - Live In Tokyo there's a strong case to suggest that the cow has well and truly milked dry. If you already own the band's previous material there's not much here to make you shell any more money out for this assembly of the band's best bits and as the only unreleased track is yet another cover of "Rock'n'Roll" (yawn) you may well want to remind yourself of the last line of the previous paragraph.

If, on the other hand you are unfamiliar with the work of Fair Warning then here is as good a place as any. You'll find some very agreeable stuff.

Track Listing:
CD 1
1 Burning Heart (Talking ain´t enough) 4:40
2 Save Me (GO!) 5:09
3 All on your own (GO!) 5:08
4 Longing for love ( Fair Warning) 3:49
5 When Love fails (Fair Warning) 3.39
6 Angels of Heaven (GO!) 5:06
7 Out on the Run (Talking ain´t enough) 4.05
8 Don´t give up (Rainmaker) 4.09
9 Long Gone (Fair Warning) 4:38
10 Generation Jedi (Brother´s Keeper) 5:12
11 Don´t keep me waiting (Brother´s Keeper) 4:23
12 Still I believe (Talking ain´t enough) 6:13
13 Heart on the Run (Four) 5:40
14 Here comes the Heartache (Aura) 4:13
15 I´ll be there (GO!) 4:19
16 I fight (Four) 3:57
17 The Way you want it (GO!) 3:56

CD 2
1 Rock*n*Roll ( Previously Unreleased) 4:00
2 A little more love (Live in Japan) 5:02
3 Come on (Go) 3:54
4 The Heart of Summer (Rainmaker) 3:44
5 Angel of dawn (Live at home) 4:26
6 The Call of the heart (Live in Japan) 4:01
7 Rain Song (Live at Home) 4:09
8 Like a Rock (Live and More) 4:07
9 Out of the night ( Live and More) 4:30
10 Meant to be (Live and More) 4:28
11 Don´t count on me (Aura) 4:30
12 Just another perfect Day (Aura) 4:39
13 Light in the dark (Single Track) 4:22
14 Man on the Moon (Live and More) 6:29
15 Children´s Eyes (Single Track) 4:12

Added: February 16th 2012
Reviewer: Simon Bray
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Related Link: Band Website
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Language: english

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