All Hits Kicks (All Hits - All Saints)

Member Name: zaktheguy

Product:	All Hits - All Saints
Date:	06/02/02 (32 review reads)
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Advantages: Cool

Disadvantages: If you like All Saints you'll probably have the songs already

This is their ‘best of’ album. Which may seem odd as they have only had two studio albums before now. But All Saints have had loads of hits, including five UK No. 1s. All Hits shows that the All Saints wrote loads of good singles, and none better than Pure Shores, with Orbit's sweeping synths and melodic bleeps meeting All Saints' soulful vocals. A classic. I love it. The Orbit/All Saints magic was repeated on Black Coffee, which was weird, stop/start pop which I liked, but not so much, I’ll admit.

Never Ever, their first major hit, was amazingly catchy. I don’t think there’s anyone without it going round their head. Their final single, All Hooked Up, was their most underrated and most urban moment. It’s just so sassy. A cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Under the Bridge came up a treat: an R&B girl group revisiting a song written about the depths of heroin-induced despair.

Their Lady Marmalade cover came before the Moulin Rouge one, but was a bit of a disapointment as it was certainly out-funked by it. All hits is cool.

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