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Advantages: Superlative dance music classic
Disadvantages: One or two slightly weaker tracks

There have been so many dance acts over the last ten years, I find it hard to remember any of them. In fact, dance music is so risible nowadays, clubs like Ministry and the Ibiza super-clubs must have a hard time filling their dancefloors. I mean who's going to be dancing to that damn-awful stupid frog song? Please tell me it's not you … Anyway, there have been or two notable exceptions, and Faithless, with their infectious brand of catchy riffs, ...
...have released consistently good tunes. So when I saw the advert's for this CD, I knew I had to have it. Father's day arrives and my lovely daughter buys it for me. Woo hoo. A little background … Faithless consists of three main protagonists; Sister Bliss, Maxi Jazz and Rollo. Cool names huh? Sis' provides all the keyboards while Maxi brings along his unique lyrical and rap style and Rollo writes and produces. Sister Bliss is a well known DJ on ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant songs, well mixed, good mix of tempo.
Disadvantages: Heavy lyrics.

...of this is the song no roots, as this talks about a child who's father has just left for war, not the most cheery topic), this though does not at all detract from the overall quality of the album. I hope that everyone listens to this as it is definately one of the best albums I have ever listened to. ... Read review

Advantages: Great music
Disadvantages: Some duds

Faithless are one of my favourite artists. In case you don’t know Faithless are made up of Maxi Jazz, Jamie Catto, Sister Bliss and Rollo. This foursome have had a huge amount of success, and still seem to have their feet on the ground. I am a huge fan so forgive me if I seem biased. Anyway this album starts brilliantly with the title track, and it is the deadpan tones of Maxi Jazz which make it work so well. My favourite lyrics have to be: ...
...so take a pace back, face facts- you don’t need eye’s to see you need vision’ Next comes ‘Don’t leave’ a very sickly love song, and I’m not at all sure about Catto’s vocals. This song doesn’t have the ‘Faithless’ touch (maybe it’s due to the fact that it is written without Maxi Jazz’s input?). Overall a very forgettable track. Things perk up with ‘Salva Mea’, ... Read review

Advantages: We Come 1, One Step Too Far, Machines R Us
Disadvantages: Some of Maxi Jazz's lyrics

"We Come 1" was a great dance track, in the vain of their old hits "Insomnia", "Salva Mea" and "God is a DJ". However, the thing with Faithless is although they are perfectly capable of producing these dance stormers, they never stick to that formula and always come up with very diverse and original albums. This, their third album is no different. It does have some other great dancey songs such as "Machines R Us" and "Tarantula". However the majority ... Read review

Advantages: 2 cds, info on the band
Disadvantages: no lyrics

2 cds: cd1 tracks: Reverence Dont leave Salva Mea If loving you is wrong Angeline Insomnia Dirty Ol man Flowerstand Man Baseball Cap Drifting Away cd2: Flowerstand man(Mattys remix) Angeline(the innocents mix) reverence(Tamsins re-fix) Sound check Jam Salva mea(way out west remix) dont leave(floating remix) Drifting away(paradiso Mix) Insomnia(moody mix) baseball dub (cheeky all stars remix) Recorded in 1996 this album has decent ...
...the greatest hits album. the second cd has some remixes of some of the tracks on cd1 on it. The insert booklet has a paragraph on each band member, Maxi Jazz, Jamie Catto, Sister Bliss and Rollo, it gives you a breif description of their journeys before they formed Faithless. It also gives you general info about the tracks, like who features in them, in most of tracks Dido does vocals/backing. the insert doesnt have the full lyrics- it has a ... Read review