Billy Idol - Essential (2011)
Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, New Wave | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 62:50 Min | 448,18 Mb
Label: EMI/Capitol Records/Chrysalis (UK) | Cat.# 50999 6 80234 2 3 | Released: 2011-10-31
As one of the first poster children of the MTV era, Billy Idol's iconic punk image has always been a little at odds with his music. While the spiky hair, perma-sneer, and studded leather jacket suggested rough living and raw sounds, Idol scored enormous mainstream success from the very beginning of his solo career, mostly with a moody, melodic sound that came much closer to hard-edged pop than gritty punk. Idol's most memorable moments in the early days came from the amalgam of catchy tunes crooned and yelped in his low rasp and unsettling video imagery. Essential focuses on Idol's seemingly endless string of hits from the early MTV era, including ubiquitous smashes like "White Wedding," "Eyes Without a Face," "Rebel Yell," and his solo version of "Dancing with Myself," a song he played first with his early band Generation X.