Best Of: I Can't Imagine World Without Me [Import]

Echobelly | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 24, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Epic Europe
• ASIN: B00005KJNU
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #467,648 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Can't Imagine the World Without Me

2. Insomniac

3. Call Me Names

4. Great Things

5. The World Is Flat

6. Here Comes the Big Rush

7. We Know Better

8. King of the Kerb

9. Cold Feet Warm Heart

10. Atom

11. Close... But

12. Father Ruler King Computer

13. Bellyache

14. Iris Art

15. Give Her a Gun

16. Today Tomorrow Sometime Never

17. Car Fiction [French Version]

18. Dark Therapy [Single Version]

Editorial Reviews

Full title - I Can't Imagine The World Without Me - The Best Of. 2001 compilation for the British indie power pop act fronted by the lovely Sonya Aurora-Madan. 18 tracks including, 'Bellyache', 'Insomniac', 'Give Her A Gun', 'Today Tomorrow Sometime Never', 'Great Things', 'King Of The Kerb', 'Car Fiction' (French Version) & 'Dark Therapy' (Single Version). Digipak. 2001.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A "best of" album that doesn't reflect the band's best, July 4, 2002

By 

woburnmusicfan (Woburn, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Of: I Can't Imagine World Without Me (Audio CD)

Echobelly is a melodic, guitar-based British alternative band. All of the songs are written by singer Sonya Aurora Madan and guitarist Glenn Johansson, and they're GREAT songwriters.

This "Best of" album is compiled from Echobelly's three albums on the Epic label. Nine of the eighteen cuts come from Echobelly's debut album, "Everyone's Got One." While longtime Echobelly fans speak of this album in hushed, reverent tones, these songs are weak by Echobelly's high standard, and the production is poor. When "Great Things" from the "On" album, the fourth track here, comes on, it opens your eyes because it's an order of magnitude better than what's come before. Any random songs chosen from "On" or "Lustra" would be as good as the songs from "EGO", the two best of which are "Insomniac" and "Today Tomorrow Sometime Never". There are also four songs from "On" (one in a French version), including the phenomenal "Dark Therapy", two "On" outtakes, and three cuts from "Lustra", all of which are better than most of the "EGO" material. This is still a good album, because average Echobelly is still better than most of the alternative rock you're going to hear. But this is NOT the BEST of Echobelly.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not the best, May 7, 2007

By 

Christa Ruth-coleman "I'm Nobodys Little weasel" (Baltimore or Bel Air, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cant't Imagine World Without ME (Audio CD)

This cd, while it is good, is not the "Best of Echobelly". For some reason, there aren't that many songs from On(Great Things, King of the Kerb, and a french version of Car Fiction), which in my opinion is their best cd.

My other favorites on this cd are "I Can't Imagine the World Without Me" and "Insomniac". The rest of the songs are interesting but again, not the best of Echobelly.

I would recommend On and possibly Lustra for their best stuff.

Echobelly is a great band and definately underappreciated in the U.S.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A "Best of" album that doesn't reflect the band's best, April 20, 2002

By 

woburnmusicfan (Woburn, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cant't Imagine World Without ME (Audio CD)

Echobelly is a melodic, guitar-based British alternative band. All of the songs are written by singer Sonya Aurora Madan and guitarist Glenn Johansson, and they're GREAT songwriters.

This "Best of" album is compiled from Echobelly's three albums on the Epic label. Nine of the eighteen cuts come from Echobelly's debut album, "Everyone's Got One." While longtime Echobelly fans speak of this album in hushed, reverent tones, these songs are weak by Echobelly's high standard, and the production is poor. When "Great Things" from the "On" album, the fourth track here, comes on, it opens your eyes because it's an order of magnitude better than what's come before. Any random songs chosen from "On" or "Lustra" would be as good as the songs from "EGO", the two best of which are "Insomniac" and "Today Tomorrow Sometime Never". There are also four songs from "On" (one in a French version), including the phenomenal "Dark Therapy", two "On" outtakes, and three cuts from "Lustra", all of which are better than most of the "EGO" material. This is still a good album, because average Echobelly is still better than most of the alternative rock you're going to hear. But this is NOT the BEST of Echobelly.