Cruel Summer

Demon Records presents Ace of base 'Gold', the only Ace of base compilation you'll ever need. Ace of base are one of the most successful pop groups who ruled the charts in the 1990s, producing inescapable pop singles, including 10 UK Top 40 singles. The 3CD collection is a definitive career spanning set including; the greatest hits, remixes and hidden gems. The 'Gold' Collection includes 46 tracks; UK #1 single 'all that she wants', 'the sign', 'don't turn around', 'life is a Flower', 'cruel summer', 'beautiful life'. CD1: includes the world wide #1 hit 'all that she wants' Alongside 'the sign', 'don't turn around' CD2: includes the classic remixes of 'Wheel of Fortune', 'cruel summer', 'life is a Flower', 'happy Nation' CD3: includes the hidden gems such as 'would you believe', ' go go go', 'mercy mercy'.

Universal International's The Ultimate Collection lives up to its name with a sprawling three-disc (for some people, a single-disc Ace of Base compilation just doesn't cut it) overview of the alternately beloved and reviled Swedish dance-pop outfit's career. For the most part, UC covers all of the same ground as 2000's Greatest Hits, 2003's Singles of the 90s, and Arista's Platinum & Gold Collection, balancing radio behemoths like "Don't Turn Around," "The Sign," and "All That She Wants" with smaller hits such as "Wheel of Fortune" and Bananarama's "Cruel Summer." What distinguishes The Ultimate Collection from previous comps is the inclusion of some deeper album cuts and an entire disc of remixes, in case "The Sign" didn't get stuck in your head the first time around. ~ James Christopher Monger

2011 three CD set, the fifth volume in the So80s series. The finest collection of original classic 12" club & extended mixes.
Blank & Jones' fifth So80s mix continues the duo's omnivorous presentation of '80s club music. Within the span of only a few tracks, the first disc moves from Bananarama's "Cruel Summer" to John Carpenter's "The End" and Liaisons Dangereuses' "Los Ninos del Parque" - from chart-topping pop to deep, cult-level gems. Among the other inclusions are Rick Springfield's "Celebrate Youth," New Order's "True Faith," Deacon Blue's "Real Gone Kid," and Thompson Twins' "Hold Me Now." Listeners with similarly broad taste will lap it all up.

2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of this 1984 sophomore album by the most successful British girl group in Pop history featuring six bonus tracks: 'Cairo', 'Push', 'Rough Justice' (Seven Inch Version), 'Live Now', 'Hotline To Heaven' (Seven Inch Version) and 'The Wild Life'. 15 tracks total including the hits 'Cruel Summer', 'Robert DeNiro's Waiting' and more.

The most successful British girl group in pop history, Bananarama formed in London in late 1981. Drawing equal inspiration for their name from the children's television program The Banana Splits and the Roxy Music song "Pyjamarama," the trio was comprised of lifelong friends Keren Woodward and Sarah Dallin along with Siobhan Fahey, whom Dallin befriended at the London College of Fashion…