Billy Idol

If you're looking to build a solid Billy Idol music collection, this may not be the best place to start. Containing mostly longer remixes of his well-known tracks, this is more for the Idol aficionado. This collection is notable for it's inclusion of Idol's popular live version of "Mony, Mony".

In which the con artist who convinced the majors the EP was a profit-taker makes something of an even more useless and cost-effective marketing ploy, the remix. The more he pixilates his pseudosex with studio sensationalism--reverb, big beat, every synthesized redundancy know to applied science--the more closely he approaches his cartoon essence. Second side's just macho disco nevertheless, but the first side is macho disco at its . . . well, let's use a technical term here: hottest. (Grade - B+)