Images of Heaven: The Best of Peter Godwin

Peter Goodwin's synthpop ballad "Images of Heaven" was the 1980's DJ's friend. Nested with so many hooks that you could keep it on the table and fade a dozen other songs in and out over it and into it, stretching it out for hours if you chose (which I once witnessed the young DJ Richard Melville Hall, a.k.a. "Moby" do one memorable night at a teenage dance in Greenwich, Connecticut. He successfully exhausted their hormonally-charged bodies).

This selection features an extended alternate mix, and pretty much the rest of Goodwin's small catalogue. Other songs are fine, danceable, funny to play when DJ's are playing against each other for "stump your rarities: 80s."

GARY NEUMAN MEETS HOWARD JONES?....WELL, MAYBE. ALL I KNOW IS THAT I'VE BEEN HAUNTED BY MEMORIES OF THE TITLE TRACK FOR 24 YEARS AND NOW I FINALLY GET TO KEEP MY OWN COPY. IT WAS ONLY VERY, VERY RECENTLY THAT I WAS TRULY ABLE TO RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER BECAUSE OF A WILLFUL DECEPTION PERPETRATED AGAINST ME BY A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. I EVENTUALLY DISCOVERED THAT I WAS IN COMMUNION WITH ONLY A CAREFULLY CRAFTED ILLUSION AND NOT WITH THE TRUE ESSENCE OF THE YOUNG LADY HERSELF.

In addition to the fact that all the tracks are from master tapes, they have also included all the 12" versions, including ours(Razormaid). [Although they should have asked permission first] Anyone collecting Peter Godwin, this is the CD to get! - jw