Customer Reviews
Glorious Dance Pioneers - By: A. Marczak, 19 Nov 2007 
There are few bands who can be considered to be peerlessin their musical creativity. Like so many bands before & since, though, their back catalogues are obliged to be condensed into singles packages for the mass market, which is fine by me.
Song To The Siren sets the tone, & the message is that you must turn the volume up louder. By the time you reach the musical beanstalk that is The Private Psychedelic Reel, you might be physicallyin your lounge or kitchen, but mentally you will bein a souped up Citroen Saxo doing donuts at your local Asda.
This is a great album for the casual fan, the kind of person that tunesin to their live performance at Glastonbury, & turns it up loud on Radio 1!
Incredible sound - By: Mrs. M. B. A. Parker, 03 Jun 2006 this album is eveything you could want from the chemical brothers with some world class number ones & some others that you may not have heard of.The tracks also improve with listening & there isnt a disappointing track on the album
Superb compilation - By: Denis Cadogan, 03 Jan 2004 This faultless celebration of dance music's most important names since Kraftwerk demonstrates the diversity & imagination that it is possible to produce within the much maligned genre.
Kicking off with three singles off their fine debut album 'Exit planet dust',this CD continues to impress with the excellent Noel Gallagher collaboration 'Setting sun', the classic 'Block rockin beats' & the otherworldy 'Private psychadelic reel' off the superb 'dig your own hole' album.
The pattern here at this point begins to prove how Tom Rowlands & Ed Simons are peerless singles artists,dance music or not.
The award winning(courtesy of Q magazine) Surrender album from 1999 is also their best,as it contains the second Gallagher featured track 'Let forever be'(a blatant nod to the beatles' 'Tomorrow never knows'),the mind-altering 'Hey boy hey girl' & the infectious 'out of control'.Their criticised follow-up,'come with us' gives us the underrated 'Star guitar' & the well meaning but overlong 'the test',featuring Richard Ashcroft from the Verve on vocal duties.The two new tracks here are no match for the earlier stuff,Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips proves he really can't sing on 'The golden path',but 'Get yourself high' is better,a successful effort at replicating Paul Oakenfold's starry eyed surprise single.
Overall,absolutely classic stuff from the duo who even rock muisc fans truly admired.If you don't have any of the albums mentioned above,then this is an essential purchase.
