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A Life of Surprises: The Best of Prefab Sprout is a compilation album by the English pop band Prefab Sprout, released by Epic Records in July 1992. [2] The album reached No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart.
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications UK [1]A Life of Surprises: The Best of Prefab Sprout: Released: 26 June 1992; Label: Kitchenware/Columbia Formats: CD, LP, MC
Prefab Sprout are an English pop/rock band from Witton Gilbert, County Durham who rose to fame during the 1980s. Formed in 1978 [ 5 ] by brothers Paddy and Martin McAloon and joined by vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player Wendy Smith in 1982, they released their debut album Swoon to critical acclaim in 1984.
"The Sound of Crying" is a single by English pop band Prefab Sprout, released by Kitchenware Records in June 1992. It was one of two new songs included on their compilation album A Life of Surprises: The Best of Prefab Sprout. It was one of the band's biggest hits, reaching No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart.
38 Carat Collection (released as The Collection in the U.S.) is a compilation album by the English pop band Prefab Sprout, released in October 1999 by Columbia Records.It was issued in a double CD version.
“When Love Breaks Down,” Prefab Sprout. Paddy McAloon and company were always just a bit too literate and incisive for mass consumption, yet even this uncompromising snapshot of matters of the ...
"The Devil Has All the Best Tunes" is the second single by English pop band Prefab Sprout. It was their first release to feature Wendy Smith and their first release after signing with Kitchenware Records. As of 2022, neither side of the single has been released on CD.
The album's closer "Pearly Gates" was among the ten tracks listed in NME's "Alternative Best of Prefab Sprout" in 1992. [22] Maconie felt the song "goes to places most pop records have never heard of; quaint and strangely moving with all the emotive power of a half-remembered hymn from schooldays". [21]