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You Just Can't Beat It: the Best of the Beat | 
| Artist: Beat
Label: Music Club Deluxe
Category: Music
List Price: £7.99
Buy New: £4.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 557
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5 x 0.3
EAN: 5014797670815
ASIN: B0010YO8K8
Release Date: February 4, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | 1 Tears Of A Clown | | • | 2 Ranking Full Stop | | • | 3 Hand s Off She s Mine | | • | 4 Twist And Crawl | | • | 5 Mirror In The Bathroom | | • | 6 Jackpot | | • | 7 Stand Down Margaret | | • | 8 Best Friend | | • | 9 Too Nice To Talk To | | • | 10 Rough Rider | | • | 11 Click Click | | • | 12 Big Shot | | • | 13 Two Swords | | • | 14 Noise In This World | | • | 15 All Out To Get You | | • | 16 French Toast (Soleil Trop Chaud) | | • | 17 Drowning | | • | 18 Dream Home In New Zealand | | • | 19 The Limits We Set |
Disc 2
| • | Doors Of Your Heart | | • | Save It For Later | | • | Sole Salvation | | • | Can t Get Used To Losing You | | • | Get A Job | | • | Walk Away | | • | Over And Over | | • | Cheated | | • | Ackee 1 2 3 | | • | Monkey Murders | | • | Jeanette | | • | I Confess | | • | Spar Wid Me | | • | Sorry | | • | She's Going | | • | Pato And Roger A Go Talk | | • | Sugar And Stress | | • | End Of The Party |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 3 Albums August 3, 2008
H. D. Ottema (Tolbert, Grunn' 't Vlakke Laand)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
They made 3 albums, 'I Just Can't Stop It', 'Wha'ppen' and 'Special Beat Service' and if you're an 'The (English) Beat' fan (like i am for years) this compilation does'nt ad anything to what you already own. I'm 56 and still bouncin' 'round!! (Ranking Fullstop)
 Excellent value but be warned June 29, 2008
Django (Chesterfield)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent value for money compilation as the other reviews can all vouch and I bought it based on their comments. Imagine my surprise however when I found that 'Stand down Margaret' is actually NOT the single version. Track 7 on my copy at least is actually 'Whine and Grine/Stand down Margaret' which is not the version I was expecting and specifically mentioned as missing in one of the reviews below ?? So if this fact is an issue then be warned, I have to admit personal disappointment as I had hoped this comp would have everything I wanted in the one place - but it was not to be.
You Can't Beat it For Value May 7, 2008
Ian Wood, Author of 'Here's 2 Absent Fathers'
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
`You Just Can't Beat it' is subtitle `The Best of The Beat' but with thirty seven tracks spread over two discs it would be possibly truer to call it `All of The Beat' with very few omissions stopping this been their entire back catalogue. It is definitely quicker to isolate what is not on this album rather than what is included. br / br /The album opens with Two Tone debut single `Tears of a Clown' b/w `Ranking Full Stop' before moving through the three singles and various album tracks taken from debut album `I Just Can't Stop it', in fact only one track is omitted which is the Price Buster cover `Whine and Grine' which is no-doubt omitted due to it's been re-worked as the single `Stand Down Margaret'. br / br /Between album single `Too Nice to Talk to' is here but not b-side `Psychedelic Rockers' before we get eleven of the twelve tracks from second album `Wha'ppen?', the only track missing being `I Am Your Flag'. br / br /The next single was the Mike Hedge's produced `Hit It' b/w `Which Side of the Bed' which is not a surprise to be missing as all previous Beat compilations have tried to write this disappointing 45 out of the bands history. br / br /Of the Twelve tracks on third album `Special Beat Service' again eleven are included here, the missing track is `Rotating Heads' which is a surprise omission as it was used in the film `Ferris Bueller's Day Off'. The only other track missing here is the b-side of `Save it for Later' `What's Your Best Thing?'. br / br /I Imagine the missing seven tracks could have fitted on the discs which would have made for a comprehensive anthology, anyway it's still good value for money as a anthology with a couple of omissions or a best of that goes a bit further. You Just Can't Beat it. br /
 Nice Compilation, but a definite missed opportunity! April 12, 2008
William Lynd (Poestenkill, NY United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having been a fan for 25 years (oh my God I'm old!) I was really looking forward to this compilation - hoping that we would finally get a nice release of some of The Beat's great B-sides that have yet to be officially released on CD. After all, if you have 2 CD's to work with, wouldn't this have been a nice place for excellent songs like "Which Side of The Bed?", "Hit It", etc? Anyway, I will be kind and only deduct 1 star - these are some of the best songs ever released and a good set for someone that doesn't own the individual CD's. br / br /
Indispensable bargain April 9, 2008
Don Juan (Salford)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Even if you've only heard Mirror In The Bathroom or Best Friend, buy this compilation. It contains some of the catchiest, most danceable songs you are likely to hear. The Beat must one of the greatest pop bands ever without 'les' at the end of their name. Going to a party? Take this with you and the CDs will end up being played all night.
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