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Ministry of Sound: The Annual 2006

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Ministry of Sound's Annual 2006 left me with an emtpy feeling after listening to it. It's just OK, not great. The song selection seems to be lacking. There's not a whole lot of standouts there, unlike 2005's version which I enjoyed a lot. A lot of the songs start sounding too much alike and the vocalists all start sounding like the same person after awhile.

That said, it's nice that you get over 2 hours of music for a reasonable price. It's just sometimes I wonder if there's enough material to really fill up two entire discs, or if they'd have been better off pulling the 12 best songs and putting it onto one disc.

Normally the Ministry of Sound name would guarantee a good CD, but this one is just lacking that special something. It didn't make me want to listen to it again. I'm very unimpressed.

...bad. If you are diappointed with this version, get the Australian version (also available on Amazon). It's different and is excellent! I'm putting 3 stars as compared to the Imported version that's all it is. Last year's import was much better also.

THIS IS ANNUAL IN UK...LOOK AT THE TITLES... They are totally changing their tunes for US soil.... Disappointed...

TRACKLIST

CD ONE
1. Mylo Vs Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure
2. Bob Sinclar Feat. Gary Nesta Pine - Love Generation
3. D.O.N.S. Feat. Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
4. Tom Novy Feat. Michael Marshall - Your Body
5. Hard-Fi - Hard To Beat (Axwell Mix)
6. Audio Bullys Feat. Nancy Sinatra - Shot You Down
7. Basement Jaxx - Do Your Thing (Jaxx Club Mix)
8. Les Rythmes Digitales - Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)
9. Jamiroquai - Seven Days In Sunny June (Steve Mac Classic Mix)
10. X-press 2 Feat. Kurt Wagner - Give It
11. Armand Van Helden - When The Lights Go Down (Trophy Twins Digital Dub)
12. The Prodigy - Out Of Space (Audio Bullys Remix)
13. Röyksopp - 49 Percent (Angello & Ingrosso Remix)
14. Lee Cabrera Feat. MIM - I Watch You (Ian Carey Remix)
15. Porno - Music Power
16. Tiga - You Gonna Want Me
17. Coburn - We Interrupt This Programme
18. M.A.N.D.Y. Vs. Booka Shade - Body Language
19. Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
20. Goldfrapp - Ooh La La (Phones re-edit)

CD TWO
1. DHT Feat. Emdée - Listen To Your Heart
2. Stunt - Raindrops
3. Uniting Nations Feat. Laura More - Ai No Corrida
4. Freemasons Feat. Amanda Wilson - Watchin'
5. Joey Negro - Make A Move
6. Future Funk - Wildberry Tracks
7. Hound Dogs - I Like Girls (Olav Basoski Remix)
8. Boogie Pimps - I've Got The Music In Me
9. Soul Seekerz - Electro Shock 2005 (The Electro Shock Remix)
10. Haji & Emanuel - Take Me Away
11. Steve Angello & Dave Armstrong - Groove in U (DLG Club Mix)
12. Fallen Angels - City Life (Herd & Fitz Vocal Mix)
13. Scape Feat. D'Empress - Be My Friend (Michael Gray Remix)
14. Digital Dog - Clothes Off (Pressure Club Mix)
15. Soundbwoy - Never Wanna Say (DJ Bomba Remix)
16. Mint Royale - Singin' In The Rain (Storm In A Double DD Cup Remix)
17. Paris Avenue Feat. Robin One - I Want You (Denis The Menace & Jerry Ropero Bangin Remix)
18. Tempramentals - I Could Let You Love Me (DB Boulevard Club Mix)
19. The Disco Boys Feat. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - For You (Michi Lange Club Mix)
20. Warp Brothers - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Ministry of Sound used to be great here in the US like 5-6 years ago when you couldn't find any trance CDs anywhere; and most of what you could find was bad. Probably their last OK release was Annual 2002. This one continues their weak performance with sorry "pop" style songs. If you don't go to clubs, never heard of any DJ on the thedjlist [website] top 100 list, or like songs mixed from '80s tunes? Well, you might be ignorant enough of good trance to actually like this. Otherwise, check out: Markus Schulz (!!!!!), Gabriel & Dresden, and maybe some Armin Van Buuren for the good stuff. I'm glad I didn't buy this MoS trash.

This really IS not a good annual...well if your starting to get into House/Dance then you might enjoy this compilaton...i'ts a "Starter Annual"

Disc 1 is too cheesey with songs from Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys, and Cascada...it's pretty mainstream...and well the remixes of Turn On The Music & Raindrops are HORRIBLE! honestly...only good songs on disc 1 are "Love on my Mind," "Your Body," & "I Like the Way."

Now Disc 2 is ok...not many cheesey songs...and some good trance from Armin...but the remix of "Darkside of the Moon" is just horrible...bla bla bla...no details...

well to get to the point~ dont get this if you already have an Annual 2006 from another country...cause chances are that the one you have is 10 times better than this one!

This is perhaps the worst Ministry CD I have ever heard. Not sure what has happened to the music/club scene in the UK, but this is like a time warp back to the 80's. Not good. Save your money and dig up Annual II & III and listen to them instead.

I bought the limited edition UK boxed set with bonus DVD when it first came out (I'm in Australia), which has a completely different mix of songs on it, being great remakes of 80's and early 90's songs plus some modern stuff. Listening to the samples of the US release sounds disappointing, and I'd recommend anyone buying this set to get the UK release instead, with great songs on it from Techtronic, Jamiroquai, Bob Sinclair, Goldfrapp, Nirvana, and others. The DVD has some good music videos on it too.

Ministry of Sound as others have mentioned is usually awesome. This time around I purchased the CD without sampling it first and I am very dissapointed. The music dosen't go with the style that they usually release in the Annual's. Have to say I am very sad because my husband and I looked forward to the release of this CD for months.

This is a great mix, I like it. It is a good combination of fast beat dance mixed with a little chill beats.

yes yes yes really got into this cd the 2nd CD is the best by far, the jamirquai track really gets me going but definatley woirth it, ppl who said it wasn;t good, you's don;t know house music and trance isn;t to flash either but this is full on if you wanan get up n dance n bust out some moves, check out this cd its fantastic!!!!!!! my view 9/10 been a while since MOS bought out a really good house comilation.