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UrbNearly every song here can be called seminal without the slightest flinch. [Oct 2002, p.102]
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The collection is both definitive and diverse.
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MixerThe album's sole fault (if you can call it that) is a tendency to stick with sure-fire classics. [Aug 2002, p.78]
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A feast of post-punk and seminal house.
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Nostalgic without sounding outdated, it's one bash worth revisiting.
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Fact is, if you know enough about Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays to want to watch the movie, you probably own everything on this record already.
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Q MagazineThis is a sheer visceral delight. [May 2002, p.124]
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If you're really into British dance music, you might actually own most of this album already, in which case you probably don't need it.
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Genre-wise, it's a schizophrenic shambles, yet somehow it all hangs together wonderfully as a solid, satisfying album.
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UncutWill prove a delight to punters pursuing a Best Madchester Compilation Ever! as long as they forget The Stone Roses ever existed, and assume Morrissey came from another planet. [May 2002, p.116]
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BlenderAny collection that encompasses A Guy Called Gerald's peerless dance anthem "Voodoo Ray" and Joy Division's exquisite "Atmosphere" is "double double good," as the Happy Mondays' drug-addled singer Shaun Ryder used to quip. [#9, p.158]
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Better to track down this decade's insane explosion of tangents individually than to be given a brief summary by a hit-or-miss marketing device.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 10
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Mixed: 0 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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NealS.Apr 20, 2007
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MacMMay 12, 2004The best party album ever!... Ok, that's an obnoxious and lazy over-exaggeration. It's a bloody good party album with not one duff track.
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N.BatistaNov 24, 2002