CD: 514 154-2
RELEASE DATE: 1992
LABEL: Phonogram

01. Our Summer
02. Flowers in Our Hair
03. In the Clouds
04. Martha's Harbour
05. Every Angel
06. Wild Hearted Woman
07. What Kind of Fool
08. Road to Your Soul
09. Scarlet
10. December
11. Farewell Mr. Sorrow
12. Strange Way
13. The Dreamer
14. Paradise
15. Candy Tree
16. Drowning
17. Wild Flowers
18. Theft
19. Different Sky

Compilation albums really do have a bad reputation: either there's a contractual obligation to fullfil and/or the band's been dropped. The latter is certainly what happened here. Phonogram's well documented dumping of AAE makes the liner notes sound hollow and facile. However, the words are true. All About Eve really were a great band. Listen to this and find out why... Opening with "Our Summer", you get an idea of essential oils of AAE - wistful lyrics about the joys of love and youth, well arranged guitars, melodic bass playing and a solid drum track. Adding to the band's woes, Tim Bricheno left in 1990 for the Sisters of Mercy, leaving CHURCH Marty Willson-Piper to fill the gap. AAE lasted one more album, the psychadelic "Ultraviolet", on MCA, then disbanded. They have since reformed (with Willson-Piper on guitar) and let's hope that this time they get the success they deserved a decade ago.