CHILL OUT! (The Classic Chillout Album)

Member Name: candy-pink

Product:	The Classic Chillout Album
Date:	10/09/08 (70 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: 30 very good tracks.

Disadvantages: 3 very bad tracks.

I stumbled upon this album in a music stores bargain bucket a few weeks ago and being a sucker for a bargain could not turn down a double CD album priced at £2.99, as it happens I am glad I couldn't because it is in fact a really good album.

The Classic Chillout Album is an old album now and I am not 100% certain the music on it can really be classed as chilled out but I get what it means in that it is chilled out as far as dance tracks go.

There are 33 tracks in total and with only three of them not appealing to me it has to have been a good buy. There are classic tracks like "missing" by Everything but the girl, "Barber's Adagio For Strings" by William Orbit, "children" by Robert Miles and the outstanding "saltwater" by Chicane.

If you are not familiar with this type of music it can best be described as dance music with pop lyrics (ie) it has a more dancey upbeat rhythm than pop but it has the meaningful lyrics that are more common in pop tracks than in dance.

As I say there are three weak tracks for me on this album which are "At the River" by Groove Armada, "sweet harmony" by The Beloved and The X-Files theme tune (yes the x-files theme tune, god knows why that is on this album)!

I am unsure what you could expect to pay for this if you did not find it as I did in the bargain bucket but anything up to about £6 would be money well spent in my opinion.

Candy

Summary: An album worth having!