Initially, the Bangles were a Southern Cali power-pop group who combined confident harmonies with stinging Rickenbacker guitars that hailed the 1960s (killer cover of the...
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The Bangles were once upon a time a great band. When they first started out as fresh-faced kids back in the mid-'80s, they captured the jangle of the Byrds, the melody of...
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Eternal Flame: The Best of the Bangles serves as yet another great introduction to the group and a fine place to revel in nostalgia, but still doesn't quite cover the ground...
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Sony repackaged and re-released the Bangles' three albums for Columbia -- All Over the Place, Different Light and Everything -- as a slip-cased box set. It's not a bad way...
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True, Sony Music Special Products' September Gurls only has a handful of charting hits -- "If She Knew What She Wants," "Walking Down Your Street," "Be With You" -- but it...
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The big hit breakthrough with the irresistible Prince-penned "Manic Monday" and cornball fun of "Walk Like An Egyptian." Extra points for the cover of Big Star's "September...
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The band's second album went to number one on the strength of the first single, "Manic Monday," written especially for the band by Prince, and its follow-up, "Walk Like an...
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On their major-label debut, the Bangles found the right mix of garage rock spirit and studio sheen on such memorable originals as "Hero Takes A Fall" and covers like "Live"...
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The Bangles' major-label debut is an essential album in the band's catalog. Guitarist and vocalist Vicki Peterson penned most of the '60s and early-'70s guitar rock songs,...
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Miles away from the L.A. soft rock paranoia of Everything or the over-produced pop gems of their second album, Different Light, the Bangles' self-titled debut EP is a rough...
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The band really turned up the glamour meter for Everything, but the success of Different Light would have been hard for anyone to top. Yet again enlisting the aid of...
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A stylish set of videos, but not enough of them, and they're missing "A Hazy Shade of Winter." Still, there's nothing wrong with what is here. Running time: 35 minutes. ~...
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For all intents and purposes, The Essential Bangles acts a replacement for 1990's Greatest Hits, as it features remastered sound and 90 percent of the same material. Like...
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With a cover like somebody vomited up a Bangles fanzine, this German compilation supercedes the U.S. Greatest Hits package by replicating that CD's track listing (apart from...
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