Kinky pill popping time Hellelujah! (The Greatest Hits - Happy Mondays)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	The Greatest Hits - Happy Mondays
Date:	06/08/09 (30 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some classic songs

Disadvantages: Some dross

Pills and alcohol were always going to mean that the Happy Mondays had a limited career and who would have thought that the manic dancing of Bez and years of chemical abuse would set him up just right to win Celebrity Big Brother, just goes to show that you never can tell.

This Greatest Hits album is the only one that I own of The Happy Mondays bought after seeing them perform on the festival circuit and a memory of some good danceable anthems ringing in my head the actual album was slightly disappointing as to be honest they never really produced enough material to make a Greatest Hits album and there is a huge gap on this album between the good stuff and the very ordinary tracks.

The quality material pretty much comes at the start with the excellent Step On and Kinky Afro appearing at number one and four respectively while Hellelujah is the club mix version and all the better for it.

Certainly The Happy Mondays added to the whole Madchester scene however their lyrics never quite matched up to The Stone Roses even if some of their tracks had a little more of a dance vibe to them, the problem with this album is that tracks like Judge Fudge and Bob's Your Uncle are just not that memorable to warrant being on a Greatest Hits album, the endingis saved a bit by a WFL future mix and the classic 24 Hour Party People but to be honest only about nine of the 14 tracks made the progression onto my walkman from the CD for this album.

Summary: Happy Mondays Greatest Hits