Antmusic: The Very Best of Adam Ant
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Antmusic: The Very Best of Adam Ant is a greatest hits compilation album. It includes songs from Adam and the Ants
Adam and the Ants
Adam and the Ants were a British rock band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The original group, which existed from 1977 to 1980, became notable as a cult band marking the transition from the late-1970s punk rock era to the post-punk and New Wave era...

 & Adam Ant
Adam Ant
Adam Ant is an English musician who gained popularity as the lead singer of New Wave/post-punk group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring ten UK top ten hits between 1980 and 1983, including three No.1s...

's solo work. The first CD covers all top 100 UK hits from Adam Ant's career (with and without the Ants) from 1980–1990, beginning with the earliest Dirk Wears White Sox
Dirk Wears White Sox
Dirk Wears White Sox is Adam and the Ants' first album, released on Do It Records in 1979, before Adam went on to fame with "Kings of the Wild Frontier." Dirk Wears White Sox features a much more eclectic, sometimes brooding sound than Ant's later work...

singles (which were re-released once the Ants found fame and charted in the UK Top 40), and ending with the charting singles from his then most recent album, Manners & Physique
Manners & Physique
Manners & Physique is the fourth solo album from Adam Ant. It was released by March 1990 by MCA Records. The single "Room at the Top" peaked at number 13 in England and number 17 in America...

- "Room at the Top" and "Can't Set Rules About Love".

The second record is a series of very raw live recordings recorded around the time Adam was promoting the (then-upcoming) release of his shelved album, Persuasion. They were performed in the United States in 1993, at Burbank Stage in Los Angeles. It was also available as a single CD version, and remains the only live album or even live recordings Ant has ever issued.

This greatest hits package charted very favourably in the UK - and its corresponding VHS, with all the videos to the classic Ant/Ants hits, also charted very well on the UK video charts.

CD1

  1. Antmusic
    Antmusic
    "Antmusic" was the third single released in the UK in 1980, from the Adam and the Ants album Kings of the Wild Frontier. The first single from the album Kings of the Wild Frontier, was the title track, making number 48 . The follow-up "Dog Eat Dog" made number 4 on the UK charts...

  2. Stand and Deliver
    Stand and Deliver (song)
    "Stand and Deliver" was Adam and the Ants' most successful single. It entered the UK Top 40 at Number One and stayed there for five weeks. It was featured on their Prince Charming album...

     
  3. Room at the Top
  4. Vive le Rock
  5. Apollo 9
  6. Zerox
  7. Dog Eat Dog
  8. Cartrouble
  9. Friends
  10. Desperate But Not Serious
  11. Prince Charming
  12. Goody Two-Shoes
  13. Puss'n Boots
  14. Friend or Foe
  15. Strip
  16. Physical (You're So)
  17. Kings of the Wild Frontier
  18. Deutscher Girls
  19. Ant Rap
  20. Kick
  21. Young Parisians
  22. Can't Set Rules About Love

CD2

Live Burbank Stage LA 1993
  1. Vive Le Rock
  2. Miss Thing
  3. Car Trouble
  4. Never Trust a Man (With Egg on His Face)
  5. Dog Eat Dog
  6. Killer in the Home
  7. Room at the Top
  8. Ants Invasion
  9. Desperate But Not Serious
  10. Young Dumb and Full of It
  11. Stand and Deliver
  12. Antmusic
  13. Goody Two Shoes
  14. 20th Century Boy (T.Rex cover)
  15. Red Scab
  16. Shakin' All Over (Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
    Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
    Johnny Kidd & The Pirates were an English rock 'n' roll group led by singer/songwriter Johnny Kidd. They scored numerous hit songs from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, including the rock & roll classics 'Shakin' All Over' and 'Please Don't Touch', but their influence far outshines their chart...

    cover)
  17. Fall In
  18. Physical (You're So)
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