The Best of House, Vol. 3: House + Progressive House

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 19, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Robbins Ent. Llc
• ASIN: B0000AGWGT
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,774 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Never (Past Tense) - The Roc Project featuring Tina Arena

2. I Don't Want U - Wide Life

3. Darkbeat feat. Oba Frank Lord's - Oscar G & Ralph Falcon

4. No One's Gonna Change You - Reina

5. Satisfaction - Benny Benassi

6. Loneliness - Tomcraft

7. Safe from Harm - Narcotic Thrust featuring Yvonne John Lewis

8. Just The Way You Are - Milky

9. At The End - iio

10. Burn For You - Kreo

11. Fix My Sink - DJ Sneak featuring Bear Who?

12. (I've Set My) Sights On You - Special Unit

13. Scream (Every 1's A Winner) - Nalin Inc.

14. Dove (I'll Be Loving You) - Moony

15. Shine (Tracy Young Mix) - Cyndi Lauper

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It is pretty good, January 2, 2005

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This review is from: The Best of House, Vol. 3: House + Progressive House (Audio CD)

It doesn't compare too well to Vol 1 & 2 although it did have some very good ones. Dark Beat, Fix My Sink and I've Set My Sights on you are my favorites and there are some other okay ones on here. Most of the songs were in the 3 to 4 minute range, and the song Shine was 13 min. but still good. Overall it isn't the best but the songs I liked I really did like.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Best of What?, December 22, 2006

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Mark Eremite "This Is A Display Model Only" (Seoul, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of House, Vol. 3: House + Progressive House (Audio CD)

Most house music suffers from (or soars above) a disturbing amount of repetition. Every once in a while a DJ (e.g. Dave Seaman, John Digweed, Hernan Cattaneo) finds new genius in the formula (or, in some cases, sets the standard with a whole new batch of rules), but when you look at most mass-produced house (and this Best Of series is that, without a doubt), there's not much variety.

This installment attempts to buck that trend, with mild success. Their conceit? Taking the house out of the music.

Although house music started out as actual songs with verses, choruses, and bridges, it has since evolved to become a conglomeration of something more. It's rare, these days, to find a good house song that follows any kind of traditional paint-by-numbers song writing formula. These Best of House albums (for the most part) harken back to an era when people were still discovering what house music was capable of, and as such, you're bound to get some songs that sound like, well, like songs.

This album, of the four in this series, is perhaps the most watered-down when it comes to the actual terms of house one might expect (even from archaic chart-toppers like these). However, while the music on this disc is only barely what one might call house, it's still better than some of the actual house to be found on the previous two discs.

These songs are heavy on synth, short on sense, and long on predictability. Most of them sound like contemporary bubble gum pop on flourescent steroids. "Just the Way You Are" is a naughty, feel-good ditty that sounds like it's being sung by a sixteen year old girl. "Dove" has disco pretentions lying under its hip-hoppy happiness. And "Fix My Sink" seems woefully out of place, a pseudo-word jam with the flimsiest sexual innuendo ever to be put to music. All of the tracks are danceable, in their way, but very few of them ("Loneliness," "Sights On You," and "Scream") are anything close to what I would call "house," even by the loosest of definitions.

Don't get me wrong. None of these songs are necessarily bad. They're cute enough, and a few of them have the sparkles and seams of true house music. However, in the end, even if this album has its limited, sugar-coated appeal, it suffers from a pretty big flaw: mislabelling.

3.0 out of 5 stars House? not even!, November 30, 2009

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John Mark Martin "DjJohnnyM" (Birmingham, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of House, Vol. 3: House + Progressive House (Audio CD)

As before in my review of Vol. one..i find the biggest flaw to be in the labeling of the product. None of the music contained on this cd is truly house music, much less progressive..no more so than the first installment of this series. Much of this compilation centers around the Billboard Hot Dance Music/club play chart albeit with some tunes that got rotation on Dance Radio. There are several real winners here: Narcotic Thrust with 'safe from harm'..which loses a lot of it's luster as a radio edit..The Nalin Inc. semi-cover of "scream (everyone's a winner), which was a disco hit for Hot Chocolate, and several others are all usable tracks for a mobile dj who requires 4 minute songs, but not for the professional beat mixing dj who needs longer tracks. Again, just as with Vol.1, the track selection is such a broad and general list of various styles from different subgenres of electronica/dance, that the mix as a whole doesn't make sense...Also as before this cd is also badly mislabeled, using progressive house as a selling point without investigating what truly is under the progressive house helmet, or worse capitalizing on the progressive name and not caring if people who buy this cd end up hating progressive as a result of not liking this cd.