Romantics – What I Like About You & other Romantic hits

A Romantics “best of” album is sort of like a Simply Red “best of” album – once you get past the two or three songs that got a lot of radio airplay, what are you going to fill out the rest of the album with? Granted, I like “Talking In Your Sleep” and “What I Like About You” a lot – like the Police, they’re comfort music, reminding me of long summer days of being driven around by my older brother through the insanely-arranged streets of Fort Smith – but unlike a “best of,” say, Kansas or Howard Jones, this is one of those albums that most people just lock down on one or two tracks. The Romantics were fine for their time, but they bring back memories of some contemporaries of theirs – the Stray Cats, another early-80s band who thrived briefly on the novelty of what amounted to a single style.

1. What I Like About You (2:57)
2. Rock You Up (3:37)
3. When I Look In Your Eyes (2:59)
4. Open Up Your Door (3:58)
5. Shake A Tail Feather (3:31)
6. Talking In Your Sleep (3:55)
7. One In A Million (3:41)
8. Test of Time (3:23)
9. A Night Like This (5:06)
10. Tell It To Carrie (3:24)

Released by: Epic
Release date: 1996
Total running time: 36:33