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The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself (CD/DVD) | 
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| Artist: Billy Idol
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
Buy New: $19.99
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Rating:  22 reviews
Format: Deluxe Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.6
EAN: 5099921514227
ASIN: B0018TLRTU
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Dancing With Myself | | • | Hot In The City | | • | White Wedding Part 1 | | • | Rebel Yell | | • | Eyes Without A Face | | • | Flesh For Fantasy | | • | Catch My Fall | | • | To Be A Lover | | • | Don't Need A Gun | | • | Sweet Sixteen | | • | Mony, Mony (Live) | | • | Cradle Of Love | | • | L.A. Woman | | • | Shock To The System | | • | Speed | | • | World Comin' Down | | • | John Wayne - new exclusive track | | • | New Future Weapon - new exclusive track |
Disc 2
| • | Dancing With Myself | | • | Hot In The City (Uncensored Version) - previously unreleased | | • | White Wedding, Part 1 | | • | Rebel Yell | | • | Eyes Without A Face | | • | Flesh For Fantasy | | • | Catch My Fall | | • | To Be A Lover | | • | Don't Need A Gun | | • | Sweet Sixteen | | • | Mony, Mony (Live) | | • | Cradle Of Love (Extended Billy Idol Only Version) - previously unreleased | | • | L.A. Woman |
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Album Description
Deluxe CD/DVD Edition contains 16 classic Billy Idol tracks plus 2 brand new tracks: John Wayne and New Future Weapon. The DVD includes all 13 classic Idol videos never commercially available before: White Wedding, Rebel Yell, Cradle of Love (Billy only version), Hot In The City (uncensored) and L.A. Woman and more.
Album Description
Idolize Yourself with the Very Best of Billy Idol which includes a DVD! 18 tracks on the CD plus 13 tracks on the DVD. All the hits from 'Dancing With Myself', 'Hot In The City', 'White Wedding', 'Rebel Yell', 'Eyes Without A Face' and other greats. Good luck trying to sit still with these mega hits! After getting his start with '70s punks Generation X, singer Billy Idol left the band for a solo career in the early '80s. An early MTV favourite with his blond spiked hair and "tough guy" looks, Idol combined his punk roots with top-40 hooks, resulting in many '80s rock classics.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Billy Idol vidoes August 15, 2008
Jim Collins
There is 13 video clips on this CD/DVD. For example Hot in the City, Rebel yell, Dancing with myself and so on. The video quality on a few of the clips could be better. But I put this down to time when they were recorded back in the early 1980s.
The DVD format is NTSC not PAL, this may or may not be a problem. Other then that there is a good number of his songs on this best of collection.
 The very best August 5, 2008
B. Boersma (Fairfield, Ca)
If you are looking for Billy's original hits and videos you can't go wrong here. Great old videos!
Good Best of August 4, 2008
Knut Frentzel (Wertheim, Germany)
This Album was great, and i was feeling like an Teenager.
Great Songs and Great Videos.
All Guy who loves the 80's buy it.
THe DVD is worth it!!!! July 26, 2008
Jose O. M. Latorre (NEW YORK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own 3 of Mr IDOL's GREATEST compilations ( VITAL IDOL, GREATEST HITS and Idol songs 11 of the best) and probably you also own at least one of the 5 greatest hits By BIlly
but this is the best one;by far WHY? because it has the killer dvd together!incluiding great,excellent masterpieces of an era that wont come back,.(raw outrageous videos full of power and glory)
The DVD makes this package WORTH!!
 FORGOT TO BE A "A DIFFERENT GREATEST HITS PACKAGE" July 19, 2008
Grappler
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I remember the first time I ever saw a Billy Idol video, I was 8 yrs old. in the old Howard's Department Store(Remember those?) it was 1982 on the new MTV channel was Billy Idol doing his new "White Wedding" it was the first music video I ever saw. When they showed the scene of the nails going into the coffin I remember turning to my brother and going "He's a devil worshipper." Fast forward to 1987 Im riding my BMX Bike and on the Top 40 after they play "La Bamba" the new Billy Idol "Mony Mony Live" comes on, and I've fallen in love. Billy Idol became the cool image I wanted to be when I grew up, the look, the personality, the total awesomeness. To this day he is my favorite artist of all time. When I finally saw my first concert in 2002 and I was able to get up against the stage and almost touch him (missed by less then an inch) I almost died.
When I first got the internet my screen name was "Fatalcharm" after a song off "Whiplash Smile". So I'm a fan, get over it.
Billy Idol is going through the Motley Crue, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick stage where you keep re-releasing greatest hits packages within every 2 studio albums, that way you have a package to tour to. This album has all of his hits some 10 top 40 hits counting 4 top 10 hits or so. Its a good lineup of solid rockers, crossing the strange mix of music Billy has been successfull at pop-metal "White Wedding" Hard Rock "Rebel Yell" Punk "Dancing With Myself" Pop "Eyes Without A Face".
So whats the Problem.....
This album wasn't necessary its the 2001 album plus 2 new tracks, a Devil's Playground Track and not much more. For the purpose of the DVD its a good add on I guess but that doesn't excuse the same line up.
Its pretty much the same as Idol Songs,(minus a few tracks after 88) and 2001's greatest hits.
Now you ask how could it have been different?
Here's an idea Billy's only #1 hit was the live version of "Mony Mony" not the 1981 or studio version on the last 2 greatest hits package and thats what really gets me this version is so dry. Its rare for a live song to hit #1 and here we don't even get it on the greatest hits package. The song only made its appeareance on the Idol Song's Import and a few singles.
Where are the Vital Idol Tracks?
Vital Idol was the FIRST remix album to ever go Platinum. Its version of "Flesh For Fantasy" and "Forgot To Be A Lover" haunted dance clubs for years. Not to mention these version rock harder then the studio versions. Yet once again we get the same old rehashed versions. Which is really a let down for the newer fans who never heard these on the radio which isn't remix friendly.
Newer Tracks on a greatest hits, how innovative....
The newer tracks are okay but how about the tracks that just dissappeared, such as "Im gonna find my Way", that was yanked from Mp3.com a few years back on the song he played in his 2001 concert something along the lines of "My Monster" (I can't remember the exact title) these tracks just straight up dissappeared. And Cyberpunk "Shock To The System" was not the trademark to this album a small metro area where I live still has "Wasteland" in their rotation. "Adam In Chains" deserved a spot on this disc, is there a moodier Billy Idol song?
So this isn't a bad album just a bad concept, no Vital Idol, his biggest hit of All time Live "Mony Mony" is missing for 2 greatest hits packages and Cyberpunk is once again understated. This album if not for a dvd isn't really necessary. Giving this album 5 stars would be like writing a different review for the Mona Lisa everyday for eternity and giving it 5 stars each time. I mean where is the variety?
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