Break from the Old Routine: The Collection [Import]

3, Oui | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Spectrum Audio UK
• ASIN: B0007OQDGY
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #374,163 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. For What It's Worth

2. World Of Form

3. Arms Of Solitude

4. Joy Of Living

5. Caring 90s

6. Reason To Believe

7. I Come In Peace

8. Break From The Old Routine

9. Great Expectations

10. Stand Defiant

11. Crazy

12. More Things Change

13. Schemer Supreme

14. Fact Of Life

15. You Can't Do That For Me

16. Rise

17. For What It's Worth (Soulpower Radio Mix)

18. Dub In Solitude (Augustus Pablos Mix)

19. Oui Love You

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Oui 3 - The Collection, February 23, 2007

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Dorlon A. Peckham (Reno, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Break from the Old Routine: The Collection (Audio CD)

Without a doubt, this is one of the finest collections of music and musicianship ever produced. To hear the magic, get a pair of headphones and be ready to be "blown away."

5.0 out of 5 stars Overdue document of underrated band, March 14, 2005

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E. Stein (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Break from the Old Routine: The Collection (Audio CD)

Oui 3 were unique. Lumped in with Jamiroquai and the Stereo MCs, this groundbreaking act deserved much, much better. Thankfully this compilation has helped redress the balance.

Alongside all the singles and two big hits - their anthemic take on 'For What it's Worth' and the remarkably fresh-sounding 'Break from the Old Routine' - five previously unreleased gems are included (taken from their unreleased second album), with the remainders drawn from their debut 'Oui Love You'. The range of genres successfully tackled by Oui 3 is simply awesome. Dub ('Arms of Solitude'), acid jazz ('Schemer Supreme'), daisy age ('Reason to Believe')...it's all here. In Trevor Miles, the group not only had one of the first major British rappers to rap in a London accent (Mike Skinner take note), but also an enormously talented and intelligent lyricist. I doubt many writers would be able to slip in 'segmented social purgatory' so effortlessly into a song as Miles has managed on 'Reason to Believe' By contrast, the previously unheard cuts demonstrate a much harder musical edge, with the late ex-Bow Wow Wow/ Adam and the Ants guitarist Matthew Ashman making an outstanding contribution to tracks like 'Caring 90s', and a surprise cover of PiL's 'Rise'. Elsewhere, Blair Booth's vocals positvely shine on the excellent 'I Come in Peace' and her mournful Ashman tribute 'You Can't Do That For Me'.

Were Oui 3 ahead of their time? Well, there's a line about halfway through 'For What it's Worth'. It rings, 'The just war is latest trend/ But let this good things come to an end'. Ladies and gentlemen, I rest my case.