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Black Coffee / I Don't Wanna Be Alone

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After the brilliant pure shores all saints released the amazing "black coffee". This song is more r&b and is just great.all saints really done great job with the vocals and really proven themselves u won't get tired from this song. It's a smash hit

I can't get enough of Black Coffee!

It has a unique, hi-fidelity, techno-pop mix. Reminiscent of Pure Shores. (No wonder it is no.1)

Great CD, it will wow you!

The single sounds very techno but easy to listen to. The first track "Black Coffee" takes some time getting used to. The remix version is more than seven minutes long and is an excellent William Orbit product. The second cut ("I Don't Want to be Alone") is probably their next hit. I'm surprised they didn't use this as their follow up to Pure Shores. The girls are in Piccadilly Square today signing the release of their new album. I wish I was there! So we here at the US should be getting it in a week or two.

All Saints seemed to have made a credible change in their style of music; unlike their previous albums, there seems to be more 'melodramatic' songs then their previous albums. The Albums title song 'Black Coffee' is a really clear cut between their previous album and their present one. The CD is great, but not the best!

All Saints have always been mocked for their teen-pop and Spice Girls looks; On their new production, which is produced and co-writen by prodigy producer William Orbit, they prove themselfs as intelengt and unique music artists by release themselfs from the so-called world of teen-pop where everybody is so musically unoriginal.

With one of the decade's biggest single hits behind them, The Saints sure had a lot to live up to with their second release from 'Saints and Sinners' (they are the only band in QUITE a while to release two singles from a yet unreleased album, and have them both debut at No. 1 on the UK Chart. Quite an achievement, by any standards). However, with this sort of chart hegemony, All Saints disappoint with the remainder of their follow-up CD, but thats another review.

'Black Coffee' made its way to radio stations and video airplay long before it was officially released (the girls did a good job of guarding the single from Napster, though) and the general reception to it was one of wonder and 'They've done it again' - referring of course to the girls' previous big hit earlier in 2000. William Orbit again dominates the musical landscape of this single, though the lyrics have been panned as being 'pretentious to the core' (I'd have to agree). However, nothing can take away that this is a FANTASTIC single, and very well sung, at that. Not since Wilson Phillips first showed up on the scene in 1990 have a girl band displayed this kind of harmony, with all their voices blending in with wonderful end-result. Unfortunately, All Saints are not performers, and most of their stage performances (even of 'Black Coffee') have been dismissed as being unimaginative and silly (which they are). Never mind! What counts is the music! And as a pop single for the 00's, this song breaks new ground, and is certainly the best thing I've heard for most of this year. Very high repeat value, which I consider the hallmark of any pop classic, and this most definitely is. Highly recommended.