Product Description

'Quiet Please...' is the definitive career-spanning best of from the British pop genius that makes all other collections
obsolete. This 49-track compendium documents the development of one of popular music s greatest song crafters, from his pub rock days in 'Brinsley Schwarz' and later 'Rockpile,' to his now legendary solo career. Healthy doses of material from 20 different albums ombine to make it clear why Lowe is credited by artists and critics alike with paving the way for punk as well as changing the face of pop music with albums like 'Jesus of Cool,' 'Labour of Lust' and 'At My Age.' A deluxe version of this two disc collection is also available, including a DVD of vintage original Lowe videos for tracks like 'I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass,' 'Cruel to Be Kind' and more as well as a full length solo concert filmed live in Belgium circa 2007.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. (What's So Funny Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
2. So It Goes
3. Heart Of The City
4. Endless Sleep
5. Marie Provost
6. I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
7. Cracking Up
8. American Squirm
9. Cruel To Be Kind
10. Without Love
11. You Make Me
12. When I Write The Book
13. Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)
14. Burning
15. Heart
16. Raining Raining
17. Ragin Eyes
18. Mess Around With Love
19. Wish You Were Here
20. L.A.F.S.
21. Half A Boy And Half A Man
22. The Gee And The Rick And The Three Card Trick
23. The Rose Of England
24. I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock And Roll)
25. Wishing Well

Disc 2:

1. Lovers Jamboree
2. Shting-Shtang
3. All Men Are Liars
4. What s Shakin On The Hill
5. Don t Think About Her
6. Fool Who Knows
7. Soulful Wind
8. The Beast In Me
9. I Live On A Battlefield
10. Shelley My Love
11. You Inspire Me
12. Lonesome Reverie
13. Faithless Lover
14. What Lack Of Love Has Done
15. Man That I ve Become
16. Lately I ve Let Things Slide
17. Homewrecker
18. Has She Got A Friend?
19. Let s Stay In And Make Love
20. Indian Queens
21. I Trained Her To Love Me
22. People Change
23. Long Limbed Girl
24. Hope For Us All

Disc 3:

1. I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass
2. Little Hitler
3. No Reason
4. Cruel To Be Kind
5. Cracking Up
6. Ragin Eyes
7. Half A Boy And Half A Man
8. I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock and Roll)
9. All Men Are Liars
10. Live Concert at Ancienne Belgique

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14265 in Music
• Released on: 2009-03-17
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: .39 pounds

Customer Reviews

A splendid retrospective. A 'must' have collection.
This career-spanning compilation, subtitled `The New Best Of Nick Lowe', offers 49 songs spread over two CDs and a DVD including live footage from 2007 and rare promotional videos, covering the British singer/songwriter's career from "Peace Love And Understanding" to his most recent CD, "At My Age".
Nick lowe came out of the pub rock scene, helped steer the good ship punk rock and emerged as a superb solo singer-songwriter, yet Nick Lowe remains a cult attraction, his songs better known than the man himself.
Thirty three years separate the first and last tracks and chart a remarkable evolution.
From swinging, boogiemesiter to artisan songwriter, all bases are covered.
The early pub rock tunes now sound a little dated and he seems to have improved with age.
Lowe's songs range from rockabilly to soda pop, and from rock and roll to country, with the later songs reflections on love, betrayal and middle age.
" What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding" was originally released by Lowe's band Brinsley Schwartz in 1974 before becoming something of a hit for Elvis Costello - whose first few albums were produced by Lowe - in 1979.
It was also recorded by Curtis Stigers in 1992 and icluded inn The Bodyguard soundtrack, one of the biggest selling albums of all time : Nick Lowe turned into a millionaire.
The above mentioned track opens the proceedings with a trump card - it's a belting beat song and paves the way superbly for his most commercial work, from the punky rocker "So It Goes" through the pop hits ("Cruel To be Kind", "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass") to the folkish "Marie Provost" and the primal "Cracking Up".
On disc two we find songs like "The Beast In Me" that others (his one-time father-in-law Johnny Cash) made famous and most of latter material reflected on matters of the heart and mortality.
"Never really much of a front man, and never straying too far from his 1970s pub-rock roots, Lowe the songwriter has got used to hearing his work poshed-up over the decades by the likes of Johnny Cash, Tom Petty and Elvis Costello".- N. Dunnett
"A lot of cobblers has been talked on the subject of "honest craftmanship", but thankfully not recently by Nick Lowe, who remains the pop craftman's pop craftsman by virtue of the fact that he just gets on with it these days...succinct, digestible, witty, slightly doggy but always engaging. It was never much of a voice, but the tunes hold up like troupers". - N. Coleman
All in all, "Quiet please" is a splendid retrospective that we should add to our music library.
My favourute tracks: "So It Goes", "Endless Sleep", "You Make Me" and "L.A.F.S"
The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album
Real Emotional
At My Age

The Rodney Dangerfield of Rock
I've been a huge Nick Lowe fan since Labour of Lust hit and wound up buying everything he released before (the excellent Jesus of Cool and the Brinsley Schwarz albums) and after (John Hiatt and Little Village) and of course the Rockpile and Dave Edmunds releases. I always felt Cruel To Be Kind could have been a huge Peter Noone hit. Nick always introduced CTBK as my one "hit".

I don't find any of the early songs as dated. Excellent selection of songs by compiler Greg Geller with all albums represented equally with one quibble, True Love Travels On A Gravel Road should have been included but as it's not written by Nick no dice. To me that's like an Elvis Costello best of without "What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding".

The bonus DVD is worth the price alone. You get 10 Nick videos and a 17 song concert from Brussels in 2007. The concert is not Nick solo, he plays 4 songs on acoustic and is then joined by his band for the rest sans the encore when Nick comes back out and sings two more for the enthusiastic crowd. I wish McCartney would have enough sense to watch this DVD and see how a live show is supposed to be filmed. No quick cuts to give you a headache and no crowd. I want to see the performer not the audience. Thanks to Nick and Yep Roc for releasing a first class set. Maybe Nick will now get the respect he so richly deserves.Labour of LustJesus of CoolRepeat When NecessaryBrinsley Schwarz/Despite It AllSeconds of PleasureSilver Pistol/Please Don't Ever ChangeThe Rose of England

Quiet Please-The New Best of Nick Lowe
Nick Lowe is an unsung hero of New Wave rock and roll. He was a great producer of Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, and other bands of the late 70's, as well as making his own records with one of the best bands ever-Rockpile. The collection spans his career from his early days with Brinsley Schwartz up to the present. He has mellowed and matured now, but he can still write a great melody and put it to great words. Also, Nick did give us "What's so Funny 'bout Peace, Love and Understanding" and that says it all to me.