This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
OK, let’s say you’re a European hair-metal band. Your only hit single was a bombastic slice of ’80s synth-rock cheese called The Final Countdown. How do you put out a Greatest Hits album and cash in when you only had one hit?
Simple; you call it 1982 – 2000 to make it sound significant. You make sure it has that single. Then you toss in a bunch of your old tracks nobody would recognize if you put a gun to their head, and add some “previously unreleased” tracks, like anybody would ever know the difference. Oh, and to sound contemporary — and cover up the fact that the most recent song here is from 1991 — you get somebody to remix that hit single to a Eurodisco beat and call it The Final Countdown 2000. That’s what you do. And this is what you get.
