Cheap Cds - Ministry of Sound Anthems

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Summary: Same old content!
Comment: All of these tracks have been released numerous times by MoS in classics CDs and although they are
mostly good tracks they cant just keep releasing similar products with only different names and
covers. Mos know they have market monopoly and know that whatever they put together will sell so
they do not need to bother. To put simplym just by a different compilation album such as Trance
nation vol. 3.

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Summary: Not bad in general, but definitely a cash cow not representative of what the club's about
Comment: Just a note to TS Clark - The club has of course evolved to stay with modern trends, but it's
definitely not for people just introducing themselves to raving. I was at an Eric Morillo/David
Guetta night a couple of weeks ago and it was absolutely fantastic, and pure house, absolutely
packed and completely raving. And it still has the atmosphere of it being completely natural to
take the rave drugs (indeed, despite complaints of lowering quality, police analyses show generally
that 90% of pills are still pure cut MDMA). This CD I agree completely is not what you'd hope for
in buying something to remember the House nights too!

This compilation isn't bad
though, but it is for the small town clubber who has never been to a rave (defined by going for
music and dance with other people - FUN - rather than pick up easy sex or be seen). Enjoyable
listening, good mixing, some very good songs, just don't expect it to bring back memories of the
best nights. The song selection just is designed to pack in as many well known songs as possible to
create impressive track listings for people to go out and buy for Christmas, not as a mix to get
lost in. Example: I have a friend that DJs house extremely well, and picks progressive tracks I
have never heard anywhere else, even with Morillo on the decks. It's one hour twenty minutes of
solid music. I started listening to it, with the intention of checking up the first five minutes,
and next realised what I was doing one hour twenty minutes later when it stopped. When it finished,
I felt strangely excited, like I had a new direction in life. That evening, I booked tickets to two
amazing raves at which I met loads of new friends and had two of the best nights of my life. Sounds
odd - but it's TRUE. That is what real dance music does to you. Buy this album, enjoy it - but
don't let yourself live in ignorance of how good dance music really can be!!! Get yourself to a
Dubfire or Morillo rave and see for yourself.

xx

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Summary: Every disc has two sides...
Comment: I agree with everything in T.S. Clarke's post (apart from the working class line - hey, even posh
people need to party and they shouldn't be obliged to do it in their stately homes/Docklands
penthouses/anything inside Zone 1). Mega compiliations like this are most certainly not the the
viscera of MoS that has made it a fabled place for those of us who have loved it these many
years.
Only reason I am buying this is because I, um, like the tracks, and never bought the
singles. And it's cheaper to buy them in this collection than pay for each individual one on
iTunes.
Let us not forget that MoS is a business, run like any other. Businesses sell products
of many kinds. MoS has sold countless numbers of us everything rites of passage, lifetime
experiences, states of mind, everlasting - and everlost - memories. That's what most of us wanted to
buy when we turned up. So they sell other stuff. Why not?

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Summary: MOS REPEAT
Comment: Do MOS release a new CD everymonth with the same tracks? It would appear so. Dull.

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Summary: Same old stuff in exhaustive box set. Ministry of Sound 'classics' volume 999......
Comment: The TV advert appeared for this album the other day. The narrator stated..

"Remember
why you loved Ministry of Sound..."

I had to think for a minute. And then said to
myself "Yes I do. I loved it for the club it was in the early 90's, and 2 amazing leather-backed
albums in 1995 and 1996". However, only about 10% of this album represents the club, and any house
themed session that was "how we all remembered it".

I guess in a way I'm arguing
against a losing battle that brands like MoS are winning - its Christmas time, so lets cash in from
the teens and make them think 'this is how it was'. Now surely an album that claims to 'make us
remember' why we loved it back in the day would have the tracks we all lost it to and the dance
floor. In all my experience of Friday and Saturday nights early in the morning, I've never had the
embarrassment of hearing a DJ drop "Sandstorm - Darude" (after 1999, that is....) and to even call
'It Just Won't Do' or 'Lazy' anthems is pathetic. The DJ would be egged!

What actually
makes this album different from any other this year? Or the past 5 years for that matter? MoS
released 'Trance Nation Classics' a few months ago... the track-listing un-surprisingly familiar. Do
I even need to mention the "usual suspects" that have been worn out?

9pm - ATB />Sandstorm - Darude
Saltwater - Chicane
Born Slippy - Underworld

I don't
even see how they can put a song like 'Born Slippy' onto a modern day album. No-body of a young
generation will understand or appreciate it - it was released in a time when taking an E or Acid was
perfectly normal, and the fantastically worked lyrics show what went through the mind of someone in
a tube going home from a club. These days, clubbing is a place to be seen, and no-longer for the
working classes (unless their mummy's and daddy's spoil them rotten so they can drown themselves
with 'shots'...)

I'm not kill joy, and i'm not a bad egg. I just happend to know what
'real' dance music sounds like, and what 'anthems' actually take people back. That's why I DJ on
certain nights mid-week purely for those anthems that we all lost it to. I'll end this review on
what a quality anthems album would be. Don't recognise the tracks? If you were never there, you
probably won't - they're not commercial, like the worn out rubbish on this album. And they're not
cut to 2 minutes 30 seconds long.....

CD1 - 1990>1995

1. Xpansions - Move
Your Body
2. Faith (in the power of love - Rozalla
3. Perfect Motion - Sunscreem />4. Heart on the line - (forgot the artist sorry!)
5. Hold that sucker down - OT Quartlet />6. House Stompin - Bump
7. Stay - Isha D
8. Real Thing - Tony Di Vart
9.
Bladerunner - Magic Fly
10. Not Over Yet - Grace (Ministry got that one right, shame its on
every classics album though)
11. Go - Moby
12. The bomb - bucketheads
13. Short
dick man - Gillete
14. I luv you baby - the original

CD2 - 1996>1997
/>1. I'm Alive - Stretch and Vern
2. Professional Widow - Tori Amos
3. Rays of rising
sun - Maziac
4. Arms of Loren - Evoke
5. The lover that you are - Anette Robinson />6. Get Up! Go Insane! - Stretch and Vern
7. Anytime - Nubirth
8. Spin Spin Sugar -
Sneaker Pimps
9. Cafe del Mar - Energy 52 (Ok, I know it's been milked, but still goes down a
bomb in places!)
10. Ajare - Way out west
11. Club Lonely - Sam Ellis
12. Always -
Tin Tin Out
13. Only Me - Hyperlogic
14. Voodoo Ray - Guy called gerald

No
3rd disc for my album either! Anyway, thats my rant over with, but if you want the 'real' anthems, I
suggest you buy another album. The following albums are not deleted yet, and are still being sold on
ebay.

> Cream Live vol.1
> Cream Anthems (vol.1)

But if you want to
pay a slight bit more, here's a few albums that are worth their weight in gold...

>
Ministry of Sound- The Annual 1
> "" ""- The Annual II (went platinum twice over
it was that popular! Biggest ever selling dance album)
> Renaissance: The Mix Collection
volumes 1 and 2
> Northern Exposure

I'd hate feeling I just got home after work,
and wrote this all for no reason. All I ask is that you think about one thing. What makes this album
stand out, in any way? I'm merely saying all this through the eyes of someone who has experience -
whether you choose to be sucked into a glut of 'believing' classics albums are real or not is your
own choice, just don't rate this a bad review because I sound cynical. You'd only be denying the
truth...

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