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Great upbeat listen!

balimichelle | Easton, PA USA | 06/05/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"By listening to this CD of the Shamen's greatest hits you wonder how they never achieved huge status in the US. I love listening to this CD while in the car - it really elevates you.I recommend this cd as well as En-Tact."

A greatest hits collection

filterite | Dublin, Ireland | 06/17/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The Shamen hit their peak in 1992 with Boss Drum with the British No.1 Ebeneezer Goode. Ever since then they deliberately stayed away from the charts and had been ridiculed by some of the music press. Well naturally this sort of happens.



Either way this greatest hits collection collects most of the material that they did while on One Little Indian so it rather convenient that they left off some of the brilliant singles from pre-OLI days or even the last album they made. But this is understandable. Particularly considering the coded message that was given on Hempton Manor, the last album The Shamen did for One Little Indian.



While the early singles on this compilation bristle with enthusiasm and energy - come Axis Mutatis era singles they seem a little deflated. And the singles are definitely not a representative picture of the Axis Mutatis. While Axis Mutatis is quite spacy to the point of drifting motionlessly in space, the singles are quite flat, as if they never gained lift-off. However Indica suggested that everything was going much more smoothly.



The remix collection I haven't listened to in a long time and is quite frankly something you'd have to go about carefully. The way the whole megamix works by meshing one track into and out of another can be viewed equally as brilliance and headache inducing at the same time. However, I believe that this CD has been repackaged a few times and sold off to unsuspecting customers so if you have this, you don't need another remix CD."