This anthology's arrival in 2008 corrected a quarter-century injustice by offering the first-ever full-length release from Way of the West. The British band spent the first half of the '80s as darlings of college radio and mainstays of DJ playlists at hipper clubs, but despite a handful of dazzling singles, Way of the West never got around to making an actual album. One Time, One Life does an equal service to longtime admirers and newcomers, gathering everything the band unleashed, as well as some previously unheard items. As its signature song, "Don't Say That's Just for White Boys," makes clear, Way of the West's sound was somewhere between the visceral U.K. punk-funk of A Certain Ratio and the more groove-oriented side of The Police's output (sans reggae inflections). Frontman Pete Kearney's often-impressionistic lyrics sit easily atop unrelentingly danceable, skin-piercingly sharp guitar-bass-drums arrangements. It's the kind of thing that makes you move without requiring you to turn your mind off. If the band had actually made an album while it was extant, who knows? Maybe WotW would have been England's answer to Talking Heads.