Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Frontier (Demo)
2. Anywhere Out Of The World
3. Enigma Of The Absolute
4. Carnival Of Light
5. In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated
6. Summoning Of The Muse
7. Windfall
8. In The Kingdom Of The Blind
9. the Host Of Seraphim
10. Bird
11. Cantara
12. Severance
13. Saltarello
14. Black Sun

Disc 2:

1. Yulunga
2. The Carnival Is Over
3. The Lotus Eaters
4. Rakim
5. The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove
6. Sanvean
7. Song Of The Nile
8. The Spider's Straagem
9. I Can See Now
10. American Dreaming
11. Nierika
12. How Fortunate The Man With None

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6567 in Music
• Released on: 2003-05-20
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
Posthumous double-disc best of from duo whose unclassifiable sound combined ancient world musics with industrial electronics. Critically acclaimed throughout their 12-year career, both Brendan Perry & Lisa Gerrard have gone on to successful movie soundtrack work. This collection is released as a more affordable alternative to 2001's lavish box-set 'Dead Can Dance 1981-1998'. 26 tracks & a 24-page full color booklet featuring liner notes, song lyrics & photos. 4AD. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Shame On Me!
Why I say "Shame on me"? Because I didn't get into this band earlier. I've heard the name Dead Can Dance (DCD) for some years now but didn't pay much attention, thinking it was some dark, morbid music with a spooky name like "Dead Can Dead". I've been a fan of The Cocteau Twins for about 4 years now, I have almost all their albums, then a co-worker of mine told me he hates the The Cocteau Twins and loves DCD instead, and recomended their music. I was surprised he would say that he "hates" the Twins, his main reason he says Liz Fraser "just hollows on about nothing".
Not really true, but eventually I tryed the music clips for DCD: Wake on Amazon and was captured by what I heard so I gave it a shot.

Now I'm a new fan of DCD, thanks to this Wake release of Best of tracks. I still like Cocteau Twins but I most says DCD is more varied in musical scope and styles, crossing several different languages and cultures. I'm impressed with Gerrard's ability to sing in different languages. This a perfect for me because I'm the type of person that like learning about cultures and languages, and DCD is great for when I'm doing artwork, illustrating multicultural characters in exotic worlds.

DCD: Wake is a great introductory compilation for potentional new fans. My favourite songs are Carnival of Light, Windfall, Host of Seraphim, Severance, Rakim and The Spider's Stratagem, to name a few. I already started purchasing DCD's past album releases and the Remasters will be available soon.
DCD will take your mind and soul to other worlds, past, present and future.

Desert island DCD
This is a really great "desert island" Dead Can Dance CD that has great bits from all their phases. In fact two years ago I was studying abroad in Germany and heard they were on tour...I caught their show in England. Lucky me. But..I have had most of their work on vinyl and I had lost a few (if you can believe that..life is crazy and sad sometimes)so I needed a good comp to listen to for a refresher crash course in DCD. This fit the bill and I went nuts over it. Only one number from "Spleen and Ideal" and nothing from their first album. Now I have the awesome box set and my dumb friend lost my "Wake" but I still may buy "Wake" again even though I will have everything on it. It's just a great handy dandy overview of their career until this supposed "break-up" phase which I don't buy for a second is over. Addicting. Beautiful. Stunning. Inspiring. Cool.

Wake - same old same old
I love the music, DCD are so hypnotic and this is as good as any other album - oh wait, it IS the music that's on any other album ... and that's my criticism. Almost every track I recognised from Toward the Within or Silver Tree, both of which I love and play regularly.
It is a good album anyway and I would recommend it to anyone who isn't sure whether they will like DCD - a very good introduction to the work of these amazing musicians, especially Lisa Gerrard who has an incredible vocal range and great skill in composition.