Fureys' Finest, The - Fureys (The)

Advantages: A peak in dance music.
Disadvantages: Not for those who like smiley faces and glow sticks.

...dance music's finest hour, Music for the Jilted Generation. The Prodigy's first album, "the Prodigy Experience", can be said to very much a product of its time i.e. the first outpourings of rave. Messy, slightly cheesy, but full of vibrance and energy. Jilted Generation however contained all the energy, without the happy smiley face. Right from the very start a aura of menace pervades the atmosphere. "Break and Enter" is superb, a sledgehammer of a song that captures you and never lets you go. The theme of smashing the system carries on throughout the album, most obviously in the collaboration with Pop Will Eat Itself, "Their Law", and its battlecry of "F*ck em, and Their Law". "No good" must be considered one of the best dance songs ever written, and certainly the most danceable. Its not all big beats and basslines though. "Heat (The... Read review

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Advantages: more great singles than you could carry great price
Disadvantages: not enough recognition

...have all these track on the many classic albums the band put out in the 70,s and 80,s,but if youve never heard anything by them or just fancied hearing a couple of quirky hits again then this "HITS" collection will surprise you with the the sheer amount of tracks and cherished b-sides ,unmistakenly English in sound and style which some would say hampered their chance of success X.T.C followed their own musicla path untill the early nineties even scoring a top 20hit and TOTP apperance in 1992 with "The Dissapointed " after which they were dumped by their record company after giving them some of the finest and most interesting pop singles of the previous 20 years and theyre all on this CD for you to treasure or discover,either way you wont lose .... Read review

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Advantages: The Blackbird!
Disadvantages: Album chocked full of songs you won't know

...Nothing compares to drinking cider and listening to The Wurzels...the two go together like Peaches and Cream...Banana and Custard...Terry and Joon... So, what a pleasure it is to see The Wurzels release a greatest hits album! Not many will have heard of the Wurzels...most famous, or infamous, for getting their song "The Combine Harvester" to number 1 in the UK charts in the mid-seventies (1976?), but you couldn't really call them a one-hit wonder...admittedly, they only had that one true hit, but they were never interested in taking on the world that much, but with songs like I'm A Zyder Drinker and my personal fave, The Blackbird, they will always be a cult fave. Two years ago, my club (Newton St Cyres Young Farmers Club) organised a concert with The Wurzels and raised over £4000 for charity...they were marvellous and I'll always... Read review

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