I know you 80's buffs remember some of these songs. I've had the pink Best of cover for years, and it wasn't only till recently that I found out about the blue cover, which I just got in the mail. The difference is that the blue version contains longer version of the songs and the addition of their well known song

Moments in Love - which is played on R&B oldies and smooth jazz stations at night.

Beatbox (Diversion One) - I remember hearing it on the radio back then on probably on dance or R&B stations.

Kiss feat. Tom Jones - Ok, no comment on that one.

Paranoimia feat. Max Headroom - that was really popular especially when the show was on tv.

Dragnet'88 - Featured in the motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd

Peter Gunn - if you are familiar with the tv show from the 60's, then it was

Something Always Happens - "The Art of Noise is weird, the Art of Noise is paranoid. This maybe true." A 2.28 oddity.

ooh, i could go for some art of noise about now. talk about a group that's seriously in need of a box set...do they have one, or just the best-of disc?

I loved that blue cover best off album back in the early 90's when I first
found out about it. Don't know if that's when it was released or not since
I don't know much about TAON apart from this collection.

But I played that album completely to death. And I'm sure that I'll get it
again some time since my initial copy got lost in the late 90's and I had
to make do with a tape until now.

Beatbox (Diversion One) is still one of my fav songs. "Yeah? Oh no Oh no
I don't believe it...pababapapom pababapapom..."

DUMMM. DUMMM.
d-Dum dum dum dum
Dum dum dum dum
Dummm. Dummm. DUMMM. (lalelah!)

/\/\/\/\ I was doing a little "Close (To The Edit)" there..





I think the masterpiece has got to be the "Moments In Love" suite, including "Love" and "(Three Fingers Of) Love".

As a lad, I was all about "Peter Gunn" and "Paranoimia" (one of my favorite videos with Max Headroom)

po-po-poetry... that'll work.

In 1998, I remember seeing Usher open his performance with a dance sequence set to Art Of Noise's "Robinson Crusoe"

I loved their video of the little girl who took
a chainsaw to her piano.

You don't see videos like that anymore. these
days the little girls are all wigglin their ass
on R Kelly's face and that's about it.

IstenSzek said:

"Little girl?" dude she was a dwarf.

the 1st album by AON was "Into Battle with the Art of Noise" on Island/ZTT AON consisted of 3 people. one including Trevor Horn and an Amiga

Anxiety said:

I don't think they have a box set, yet. It could be in the works. I'm only aware of the blue and pink cover Best of releases. I ordered mine through Amazon for less than $6 used.

i love the art of noise's ambient album - it's some really really good stuff with sounds that can either suck you right in, or exist comfortably in the background.

That video with the dwarf taking a chainsaw to the piano used to scare me! (I was 4)

Love the song though.. pretty sure that was for "Close (To The Edit)" but I haven't seen the video in ages.