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Marilyn
Despite Straight Lines: Very Best of Marilyn
Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. Calling Your Name
2. Mountain To The Ocean
3. Surrender To Your Love
4. Third Eye
5. Baby U Left Me (In The Cold)
6. You Don't Love Me
7. Give It Up
8. Wear It Out
9. Cry And Be Free
10. Bonus Tracks: Calling Your Name - Midnight Party Mix
11. Move Together
12. Calling Your Name - Extended Version
13. Running
14. Cry And Be Free - Gospel
15. Cry And Be Free - Streisand Style
16. Raining Again
17. Baby U Left Me (In The Cold) - Extended Version

CD Details

All Artists: Marilyn
Title: Despite Straight Lines: Very Best of Marilyn
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Cherry Pop
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 12/9/2008
Album Type: Import
Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock
Style: New Wave & Post-Punk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5013929421028

Synopsis

Album Description

2008 digitally remastered and expanded edition of the sole album from Boy George's controversial mate, appearing on CD for the first time since it's original release 23 years ago. The album features eight bonus tracks that include two mixes of "Calling Your Name", 12" promo mixes of "Cry And Be Free" (Gospel and Streisand styles) and the extended version of "Baby U Left Me In The Cold". The CD booklet includes a UK discography with all the accompanying sleeves and a biography of Marilyn's career. Cherry Pop.

CD Reviews

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Kevin Sheehan | CA USA | 01/05/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Wow, I thought I'd never see the day that 80's pop sensation ( though very short lived) Marilyn's debut album Despite Straight Lines would ever see the light of day on CD!

First I would like to thank Cherry Pop for these amazing and rare reissues like Dead or Alive- Sophisticated Boom Boom, which I also bought.

However though this greatest hits compilation is amazing, it has one major defect, it does not contain Marilyn's hit single and my favorite Maz song of all time "Pray for that Sunshine".

I understand that Marilyn himself personally wanted the track omitted from Despite Straight Lines, simply because he did not like it.

This is a crime and a shame. Cherry Pop should have told him all or nothing, instead of cheating Marilyn's devoted fans of one of Marilyn's best songs to date.

Like I mentioned before, I bought Despite Straight Lines, but I am extremely dissapointed in it and in Marilyn for cheating his own fans.

It would have been great if it would have included his more obscure, but none the less fantastic song Sooner or Later.

It would have also been nice to be treated to a DVD off all of Marilyn's videos and maybe some live stuff, interviews etc, like Dead or Alive's amazing Evolution, since this stuff is impossible to find in high quality.

Anyway, other than that it's a great buy, but you still feel like something big is missing, like a table with only 3 legs, what a shame."