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A Collection of Metal ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED Remastered
1 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
 Saxon Overrated in the UK?, May 21, 2000
Saxon at their best could rival Black Sabbath? I think not. Saxon wrote a couple of good songs, but they were never really hard edged heavy metal. The lead singer was named Biff, the guitar player was a rip off of Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick (right down to the goofy upturned baseball caps), and their songs were of the bubble gum metal variety. I thought "Denim and Leather" was a humorous little ode to metalheads...but after I saw Saxon live, I realized what a novelty act they really were. Yuck.This disc has the best of Saxon's music, it's just not a high point of the 80's New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 It's a shame !, June 30, 2000
SAXON was never a really big, big band, but without any doubt they left their mark in hard-rock / metal. They survived extinction along with Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. But I'd like to know who did the song selection for this compilation! HTis is absolutly not he best of Saxon ! The great songs from SAXON were written until the the album "CRUSADER". AFter that, they turned radio friendly and almost finished ! The songs in this selection (in their majority) has only their "radio phase" portrayed ! For old SAXON fans like myself, it's garbage.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Broken Heroes NOT studio, but live version, October 9, 2005
I was looking forward to this CD, but when I got it I found that Broken Heroes is a live version and not a studio version as listed on the release. I believe that I am entitled to my full purchase price back, but good luck getting that out of this site.
Everything else on the CD is good, and this should've been a good way for SAXON fans to get material off those CDs that were not really up to snuff but had a few good singles on them.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Could've been better, July 7, 2003
I can't believe that this best of compilation doesn't have killer tunes like Wheels of Steel, Strong Arm of the Law, Princess of the Night and Power and the Glory, instead they decided to put the mellower songs on this CD and I thought that they're remake of Christopher Cross's Ride Like the Wind was mediocre, Saxon is supposed to be a fast hard rocking metal band. not just a radio friendly rock band, but the positive side of this CD is that it has my favorite song by Saxon called Denim and Leather, I wish that this CD would contain hits from 1979-83 but oh well, if you love Saxon, I would recommend Wheels of Steel or Denim and Leather as your first pick.
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4 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
here we go again, July 14, 2000
Reviewer: A music fan
Will someone listen to me? I wrote the "It's heavy- but heavy what?" review. I repeat - Saxon started as basically a heavy rock n roll band, then turned "radio friendly", BUT HAVE NOW MADE A COMEBACK TO HARDER MATERIAL. Who clicked on the "no" button on my review? Saxon were almost as big as Maiden in the UK in the early 80's but were never huge worldwide, but this most definitely does not mean that they were inferior to more famous bands.Like it or not, image is a part of popular music, and it is perhaps here that Saxon had a weak spot-they didn't have a definite image like Iron Maiden had.FONESCA, if you haven't heard Saxons stuff post 91 I can recommend that you do.This album does have a few of their good songs on it but I agree that it's a bad compilation.I've been a Saxon fan since 1986 so I like to think that I know what I'm talking about.
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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
It's heavy-but heavy what?, June 9, 2000
Reviewer: A music fan
I am the brother of the person who wrote the "Saxon underrated in America review"Firstly I have to say that I don't like the labels that are put on music,and if anyone buys this expecting something dark and doomy, thay're going to be disappointed. When Saxon started they were basically a heavy ROCK AND ROLL band, not a "heavy metal" band,more akin to Aerosmith than Iron Maiden.There is a difference btween rock and roll and metal!They then decided to make their music more radio friendly, and their career declined badly. It was still good catchy music but somehow was unpopular. In the last few years they have "darkened" somewhat and some of their songs are quite serious and "doomy".This collection of songs however is mainly from their radio friendly days, and anyone expecting something like early Black Sabbath or Metallica is going to be disappointed.I don't know who decided on this choice of songs but it's certainly not a good choice!These are the songs that almost killed Saxon's career.If you want to check out Saxon's music I would recommend "Wheels of Steel" "Power and the Glory". "Dogs of War"or "Strong Arm of the Law" and then decide if you want to buy more of their stuff.
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