''Baby I Don't Care'' is a budget

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by the British

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band

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comprising all their singles, selected album tracks and extended versions. It was released on CD in 2002 on the Spectrum Music label. The artwork utilises a repeated picture of

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in a pop-art style and the four-page booklet contains an essay by Daryl Easlea of ''

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'' magazine.

Critical reception

Heather Phares of

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wrote that the album "puts most of its focus on tracks from ''

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''" and the inclusion of songs from ''

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'' "reveal that Transvision Vamp's experiments with dance and hip-hop beats didn't sound at all disastrous, even though that was the effect that they had on the band" and the selected remixes actually "pushes the band's sound further in that direction". Phares concluded it is "a good retrospective of Transvision Vamp's entertaining, if slight, late-'80s/early-'90s alterna-pop".

Track listing

All tracks by Nick Christian Sayer except where noted #" I Want Your Love" – 3:29 #"

Baby I Don't Care "Baby I Don't Care" is a song by English pop rock band Transvision Vamp and the first single taken from their second album, ''Velveteen'' (1989). It was released in 1989 and remains their highest-charting single, peaking at number three in both t ...

" – 4:37 #"

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" (Holly Beth Vincent) – 3:06 #"Revolution Baby" – 4:53 #"Sister Moon" – 4:23 #"(I Just Wanna) B with U" (Wendy James, Sayer) – 4:21 #"The Only One" – 4:19 #"Landslide of Love" – 3:48 #"If Looks Could Kill" – 4:10 #"Kiss Their Sons" – 4:16 #"Every Little Thing" – 3:59 #"Bad Valentine" – 3:45 #"Velveteen" – 9:51 #"

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" – 3:44 #"Revolution Baby" (Electra-glide Mix) – 6:01 #"Tell That Girl to Shut Up" (Knuckle Duster Mix) (Vincent) – 4:44 #"Baby I Don't Care" (Abigail's Party Mix) – 5:45 Notes *"(I Just Wanna) B with U" is incorrectly titled "(I Just Wanna) Be with You". *Daryl Easlea wrongly states that the title of Transvision Vamp's third album was ''The Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble''. It was simply ''

''.

Personnel

* Wendy James – vocals * Nick Christian Sayer – guitar * Dave Parsons – bass *

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– keyboards and drums * Pol Burton – drums

References

{{Transvision Vamp Transvision Vamp albums 1998 compilation albums