Ministry Of Sound Anthems (1991-2008) [Digipak] - Various Artists

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Definitely a cut above the rest
Lyrics	Sublime
Quality and consistency of tracks	Flawless
How does it rate alongside the competition	Good
Value for Money	Good

Advantages:	Classic dance music from the best of the best !
Disadvantages:	Already have a lot of this music on CD so a bit of a waste of money

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

What Is It?

The Ministry of Sound 'Anthems 1991- 2008' is a CD set which is a mixture of the best dance songs, mixed by the Ministry of Sound, over the last 17 years. This is a 3 CD box set which contains 63 famous dance anthems of the last 2 decades.

Why Buy It

I bought this as I have always been a huge fan of the Ministry of Sound. I am not old enough to have heard the stuff before around 2000 as I only got into dance music in the last 5 years and am only 15 so it adds up. Anyway I had heard a lot of the material on this CD on the radio and really enjoyed it, but I wanted now to be able to listen to it in the space of my own home on my i-pod of CD player.
Also the adverts on TV as well, they really intrigued me and after listening to the snippets of songs. It made me want to listen to dance music and the advert had really good graphics as well.

Cover

The cover is a really good graphic of the famous Ministry of Sound logo. It is very stylish and modern and I really like it, along side the disco strobe background. On the back it has the full tracklist of each CD. The list of songs on the back are all in order of the date of when they were realesed which is a good idea so you can listen to example CD 3 if your wanting the more up-to-date songs played. Or CD 1 for the older 'classic' dance songs. When you take the CD's out of the cover slip you have pictures of part of the logo (corners etc) and unfolding it leaves you with the 3 CD's, nicely presented. Very funky!

Tracklist

Disc 1
1. Show Me Love - Robin S
2. Passion - Gat Decor
3. Make The World Go Round - Sandy B
4. Nakasaki (I Need A Lover Tonight) - Ken Doh
5. Break Of Dawn - Rhythm On The Loose
6. Alex Party (Saturday Night Party) - Alex Party
7. Two Can Play That Game - Bobby Brown
8. Push The Feeling On - Nightcrawlers
9. Where Love Lies - Alison Limerick
10. Hideaway - De'Lacy
11. One Night In Heaven - M People
12. U Sure Do - Strike
13. Keep Warm - Jinny
14. I Believe - Happy Clappers
15. I Luv U Baby - Original
16. Key The Secret - Urban Cookie Collective
17. Don't You Want Me - Felix
18. Plastic Dreams - Jaydee
19. Higher State Of Consciousness - Wink, Josh
20. Ebeneezer Goode - Shamen
21. Everybody In The Place - Prodigy
Disc 2
1. You Don't Know Me - Van Helden, Armand & Duane Harden
2. Trouble With Me - Black Legend
3. So In Love With You - Duke
4. Bomb - Gonzalez, Kenny 'Dope' & The Bucketheads
5. Everybody Be Somebody - Ruffneck & Yavahn
6. Who Keeps Changing Your Mind - South Street Player
7. Spin Spin Sugar - Sneaker Pimps
8. Rip Groove - Double 99
9. Dreaming - Ruff Driverz & Arrola
10. It's Not Over Yet - Grace
11. Greece 2000 - Three Drives
12. Salt Water - Chicane
13. God Is A DJ - Faithless
14. Born Slippy - Underworld
15. Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation
16. Time To Burn - Storm
17. Sandstorm - Darude
18. Castles In The Sky - Ian Van Dahl
19. Silence - Delerium
20. Out Of The Blue - System F
21. 9pm (Til I Come) - ATB
Disc 3
1. One More Time - Daft Punk
2. Needin' U - Morales, David & Face
3. Get Get Down - Johnson Paul
4. Sing It Back - Moloko
5. Another Chance - Roger Sanchez
6. Praise You - Fatboy Slim
7. Red Alert - Basement Jaxx
8. Intro - Braxe, Alan & Fred Falke
9. Touch Me - Da Silva, Rui & Cassandra
10. Lovestory - Layo & Bushwacka
11. Lazy - X-Press 2 & David Byrne
12. At Night - Shakedown
13. Love Generation - Bob Sinclar & Gary Nesta Pine
14. It Just Won't Do - Tim Deluxe
15. American Dream - Jakatta
16. Rapture - iio
17. Put 'Em High - Stonebridge & Therese
18. Call On Me - Eric Prydz
19. Loneliness - Tomcraft
20. Satisfaction - Benassi, Benny & The Biz
21. Put Your Hands Up For Detroit - Fedde Le Grand

Favorite Song

Well, it's a tough one as I really like a lot of music on the CD's. However I have chosen Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation as I cannot listen to it enough. I love it and usually have it blaring on my i-pod at max volume!

Least Favorite Song

There is one song that irritates me and that is the Eric Pryz- Call On Me song which really irritates me. I think I have heard it to many times and I don't actually think it should be on the CD as it isn't really a classic Ministry of Sound song but other people might think otherwise.

Music Quality

Very, very good. Even though some of the music is around 10 years old it still is very good quality. The newer songs do have a little bit more of an edge to it, however the older songs are still very high quality. When you turn the songs up I have noticed that unlike some CD's, it doesn't crackle at the strain of high volume. But if you really want to take full advantage of the quality then turn up the bass (if you can) on your player, what amazing results.

Price/Where to Get It

I bought my CD at Woolworths for £15.99. I thought this was a really good price and I had bought it about the week after it was released. Now when I had a look around the shops I have seen HMV sell it for £9.99 which is a really good price. Checking out other shops, Woolworths were also now selling them for £9.99 and online there was the same trend. The RRP is £19.99 so the shops are being very nice at the moment. I think if you were to buy this CD, not to spend more than £16 to get the best deal.

What's Right With It?

If your a fan of dance music, or knows someone who is then this really is for you. I wasn't alive when some of this music was released but I really love a lot of the older music. I had heard some of it before on the radio sometimes but now i've taken the time to appreciate it. It has some really good music which is brilliant and has a bit of dance music for everyone. The cover is really stylish and 'cool' and since there are 3 CD's you can listen to different eras of dance. I put them all on my i-pod however so I didn't have to take them all over the place so thats another advantage.
The music is really high quality and really good for discos or parties as you can put it really loud, and it won't crackle or skip parts of songs. I personally hadn't heard a lot of the music before so it was great to discover new dance music. I love the Ministry of Sound and this is a really good compilation of the best songs, it has to offer, that will have all the oldies on the dance floor.

What's Wrong With It?

There is a big problem with this CD. This will affect a lot of people. I already have a lot of the songs on this CD on other CDs! I actually have 3 different versions of some songs on this CD already so this is just another on to add. I already had about a quarter of the songs already on CD so had to delete the duplicates of my i-pod playlist which was annoying. So if you are someone with a lot of Ministry of Sound music already then you will find it a bit stupid to buy as you will probibly have most of it already. So I found that a huge disadvantage so making this CD really best for people who do not have any MInistry of Sound CD's at all.

Conclusion

I have always loved dance music and possibly always will. The music is great and very high quality however, having a lot of the music on this CD already is annoying. However don't let that stop you buying it as there is so absolutely brilliant music on it and it is a really good CD to buy, for a really good price.

Janie x

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