The Annual 2008

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5051275008326 Format: Box set Label: MOS Manufacturer: MOS Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: MOS Release Date: 2007-10-29 Studio: MOS
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: It just gets worse and worse and worse and worse.... Comment: What an earth are MOS playing at? I hope they are enjoying taking the money from the punters and cranking out rubbish like this! If the Decent DJ's were still around this wouldnt happen, there would be decent remixes (not cheesy chart MOS favourites) and also the actual CD's themselves would be nicely mixed too.... DO yourselves a Favour MOS, get a decent DJ (ill do it for free) and let them work their magic..... Im never buying another MOS release again until something major changes. Customer Rating: Summary: Trancendental Comment: The Annuals seem to get worse every year and this album is no exception. Why cant the Ministry of Sound Produce Annuals like 95-00 again mixed by propper DJ's like Pete Tong,Jules,Tall Paul and even Boy George. Customer Rating: Summary: Annual 08 Comment: Thank the Lord! The guys at MoS have finally sat up and taken notice! Previous Annual releases have been wall-to-wall pop songs that sound good in a club! Okay slight exaggeration but they have been immensly commercial. However for 2008 things seem to have taken a turn for the better! (If 75% of the songs have been heard in clubs sinse last year) CD1 opens with one of the biggest songs of 2007 samin and 'heater'. Brilliant funky and edgy song and really shows what we have to wait for on CD1 and shows us the funkier direction this annual is going to take. This is quickly followed by another blockbuster track 'let me think about it'! Fedde Le Grand has been tearing up dancefloors for a couple of years now and this is another insanely addictive track! Also on the CD is nice to see some of the biggest names in house and electro breaking more into the mainstream. Vandalism, Dirty South, Spektrum and the brilliantly talented Sweedish House Maffia (Axwell, Ingrosso and Angello) all contribute superb tracks and remix's that have been destroying electro dancefloors for months and are now getting more commercial club and radio playtime! Two other masterful songs i would like to point out to you include Federico Franchi's 'cream', one of the BIGGEST songs in clubland over the summer and Claude Von Strokes 'whistler', brilliant! CD2 goes even darker edgier and houseful. Pete Tong and one of the best up and coming house producers Dave Spoon get messy on Robyn's Heartbeat to open up the CD and it never looks back! AVH 'I Want Your Soul', Yves Larrock 'Rise up [Harry "choo choo" Romero]' and the Drill remix of Dada 'Lollipop' are the stand out tracks of CD2. All round both CD's are tremendously listenable to. Many tracks will get you up and dancing and will appeal to a very wide range of people bar specific genre core enthusiasts. Two minor complaints however, as i said before, many of the tracks have been spinning on decks for nearly a year now so isnt really a guide to 2008 and is a bit out of date. Secondly three brilliant new songs are doing the rounds that i believed should be here: Utah Saints - Something Good Bart B More - So It Goes Sandy Rivera - Freak [Bart B More Mix] Aside from theys couple of minor flaws, it looks like MoS are getting their act together and bringing us some quality music again!! Customer Rating: Summary: READ THIS Comment: I know this isnt a review but - why dont the songs listed on here match up with the ones on Napster?? There are some on here and not on the Album on Napster whats that all about? Customer Rating: Summary: 7 years of downwards dribble, and Ministry finally make an effort Comment: What a 7 years its been for MoS and their Annual releases! With the Millennium hang over's out of the way, Judge Jules and Tall Paul left the scene and handed the job over to a mindless laptop in 2001, for what was to be the formulae for many Annual's to come. Crammed with cd's of 'classics', cheesy chart hits, and the compulsory awful 3rd CD, it looks like MoS has actually looked at itself in the mirror, and decided to at least 'try' to change. The peak of their change lay in The Annual 2003... I think a DJ would have been egged if any of those songs were played! Unfortunately, 'the 3rd disc syndrome' is still about, and they have failed to ditch this propaganda, of what was awfully in 2002, a collection of totally bad 80's remixes. Here however, its a 3rd CD of "cut up's", resembling faintly (you guessed it) to some of their previous products... The Mash Up mixes. Is this advertising or did they just run out of ideas for their compulsory 3rd disc? Either way, lets thank them for not producing another pointless DVD that we use once, and then forget about. Of course on this note, you'll notice the track listing is alot better than in previous years, looking alot more like what we hear on a Friday night on Radio 1, and not what's on those annoying ring-tone adverts. Known tunes among the clubs and radio DJ's alike will be "Ida Corr Vs Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It" and a few others, making it at least sounding a bit more 'authentic' to what 'The Annual' should be all about. It would appear that The Annual vol.1 and vol.2 are the only releases to actually have a 'complete' tracklisting of the most popular played vinyls on club nights. It's important though to understand that this album still lacks the DJ touch - although their are alot of commercial and brilliant floorfillers, many of the promo's and cuts that have rocked clubs this year failed to make the mark here. I guess we can say that's better than the commercial dribble we've seen in recent years, so it could be a 'smarter' move for now. Commercially however, this ought to put the kids off. The way the Annual has been advertised in recent years suggests its for teens to bop around in their bedrooms. The reality this year is that its alot more electro and mainstream, making it more listenable. And rightly so, the USA have gone electro mad in clubland and its spread over here like wild fire. Compared to previous years, it's safe to say that The Annual 2008 appears more 'authentic' to what 'The Annual' is all about... "an annual of tunes from clubland". Though this statement may have only lasted for about the first 4 Annuals released, MoS may be coming to terms that they need to change their approach, and so with some fine young ladies on the front cover (out of the window with those sameish coloured lines) it 'may' just end up in your Christmas stocking this year, if you go out on a friday night yourself, at least. For those who are used to the usual cheese from previous years, you may be slighted disappointed this year that MoS had the courage to prevent artists like 'The Pussycat Dolls' for getting on the album. Although I personally think electro is getting a tad 'sameish' after the last couple of years, its still true to what's being played out their, and that's what counts surely? In summary though, I have to be honest and say that this is a great album filled with some of the best tunes this year, which is what all The Annual is all about. The 5th star however would have come from the all important 'real' DJ mixing - not just a producer. More Reviews