It was a stunt of sorts, yet it was also an idea, and as the Legend! points out in the liner notes to this 2003 reissue, ideas in music are few and far between. It suckered weak-willed casual fans into apprehensively buying a Wedding Present single once a month for an entire year, but it also produced a handful of the group's best singles — all 12 of which reached the Top 40 of the U.K. chart — and several covers that were either completely unlikely or just the opposite. While the Hit Parade 1 CD compilation covered January-June and its companion disc took care of the rest of the year, this reissue places the A-sides on one disc and the B-sides on the other. As a result, the first disc makes for a solid follow-up to 1991's Seamonsters; the B-sides disc makes for one of the best all-covers albums ever made. This would've been a good time to make Hit Parade 3 — a limited six-song disc of more covers — more widely available. Some things must be left for the 20th anniversary edition, right?

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對於粉絲來說，The Hit Parade 是一張不容錯過的專輯。它於 2003年3月24日發行，The Hit Parade 由The Wedding Present 等歌手推出。這張專輯包含 24 首歌曲，每一首作品充分表達出其專輯概念。只要上JOOX，你便能立即欣賞The Hit Parade 中的高音質歌曲、歌詞和MV，一同沉浸在美妙的音樂體驗中吧！

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The Hit Parade

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