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Advantages:	It's got songs Gomez fans have wanted for ages, like Beatles cover"Getting Better"
Disadvantages:	It's not as coherent as previous albums .

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

So this is Gomez's 3rd album. Only instead of recording a new batch of songs, this is a collection of b-sides and rarities. I've been a Gomez fan from as near to the beginning as you can be, without being a school/college/uni. friend. I saw them live twice at Glastonbury 1998, when they did 2 sets, having heard 78 Stone Wobble. I've since seen them a further 5 times live, so with being such a big fan, I've got quite a few of these tracks already. Like "Steve McCroski", which if you've seen them live you'll quite possible know it as the first track they played.

If you like Gomez there is no reason why you won't like this album. "Bring You're Lovin' Back Here" is a good Gomez jumping song, with a rousing chorus. "Buena Vista" is a beautiful as the butterfly in the opening line, with Ian Ball's voice floating gently across the gorgeous melody.

Phillips electrical company have an advert on tv, which has at the end bands covering the Beatles song "Getting Better". A while ago one such band was Gomez. Only a few bars of it are played in the trailer and it is only now that you can hear the full version here. A word of warning, if you are a Beatles fan, you probably won't like this, believing it to be the devils work. But you are being too precious about the Beatles, and actually it's great.

If you're not yet converted to the Gomez way of thinking, then I suggest you buy their first album first and work from there. Because this is just a collection of b-sides it's not as coherent as the first 2 albums, and it's not supposed to be. And it therefore fits in better once you have the whole Gomez picture.