"The Singles Collection 1981-93" underlines impressively the diversity and variation ability of Kim Wilde in the course of her long career. With virtually every studio album, the British initiated at that time both visually and musically a change of style a. From clever, brisk New Wave earwigs like "Kids in America", "Chequered Love" or "View from a Bridge" on dominant synthesizer on "Cambodia" to Jazz & Swing deposits with "Love Blonde" by thumping bass and Synthitrompeten on "The Second Time" on Sixties echoes in Rockabilly sound with "Rage to Love" to beaten by drum machine dance pop on "You keep me hangin 'on": Kim Wilde hits were never anything to rest and relax, but with their rousing rhythms guarantee well-stocked dancefloors in nightclubs. The hits of the late '80s in the form of keyboard stressed harmonious "You Came" and the funky electropop songs "Never trust a stranger" continued this trend in 1988 continued until 1989 with "Four Letter Word" the only published as a single Kim Wilde ballad on the market came and was also part of the top hit.
Also in the '90s was a musical and creative standstill at Kim Wilde nothing to feel. "Love is Holy" convinced the anthemic Gitarrenpopsound as well as the 1993 cover version "If I can not have you" where Kim Wilde came up with popular Euro dance beats that time.
From a British perspective leaves "The Singles Collection 1981-93" for the Hitsammler nothing to be desired, because among the 17 songs on the CD are all UK Top 10 hits (eight) and Top 20 represent success (six). It was now, however, so that Kim Wilde on the European continent was even more successful than in the domestic UK. Some exclusively British single hits such as "Water on Glass" and "Rage to Love" would be able to save favor about the 1988 Popdance number "Hey Mr. Heartache" and the 1990 "Happypop" anthem "It's Here", considered a pan-European in many more countries Charts successes were. Then finally would have been represented on the Best of CD and each of the 8 studio albums (unfortunately so falls the 1990 album "Love Moves" completely out). Despite these minor shortcomings, "The Singles Collection 1981-93" has become an impressive time and style journey into the past and career of the most successful British female singer of all time. Better Hitsammlung of Kim Wilde is not there.
