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World Party - Best in Show

Primary Artist
World Party
Album Title
Best in Show
Release Date
September 3, 2007 
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Review by James Christopher Monger
When Karl Wallinger left The Waterboys in the mid-'80s to form World Party, it only took one song to convince fans that this was no one-off side project. That track, "Ship of Fools," and 12 others populate the band's first-ever "greatest-hits" compilation, the appropriately titled Best In Show. Wallinger, a devout "Beatlemaniac," never aped a move by the Fab Four without throwing more of himself into the mix, which makes World Party's sophomore effort, Goodbye Jumbo, such a joy. Read More