Customer Reviews

Parts of Process

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After downloading the music (legally, using the new subscription-based Napster), I knew I had to buy this music. But not this album. I hunted down the version mentioned by another reviewer that includes a DVD. It appears on Amazon as "Parts of the Process (CD & DVD) [LIMITED EDITION]." It costs more, but it'll be cool to see the group performing live.

I love the electronica genre because of the near-universal presence of ethereal female vocals.... and this group is the epitome of that!!!

Great job Morcheeba! Keep it coming!!!

i don't actually own this album but i have heard every song on it and can tell you that it is well worth your money. some of morcheeba's absolute best songs ever are on this cd, and you get two new songs. there are little comments from DJ paul godfrey for each song along with a "history" of the band. if you don't own all four morcheeba items you should buy this sampler to get a taste of how their sound has evolved. it will probably inspire you to go out and buy all four disks, which are an investment any music lover will profit from.

In the few years that Morcheeba has been around, the band has been able to carve a niche among club-hoppers and easy music listeners likewise, with its blend of trip-hop, infectious beats and amazing vocals. This CD is a compilation of some of their biggest hits, including 'Rome wasn't built in a day' and 'Be yourself'.
My personal favourites include 'Undress me now', 'The sea' and 'What New York couples fight about'. I would have given this compilation 5 stars, but it misses 2 great tracks in the oriental-sounding 'A well deserved break' (from the album 'Fragments of Freedom) and the phenomenal 'Three orange whips' (from the album 'Blindfold'). All said and done, this is a GREAT compilation and a perfect introduction to the music of Morcheeba. BUY IT IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, and you won't be disappointed!!!

This cd or any music of morcheeba's is amazing. You can listen to it at any time, any mood...it fits right in. The singer has a sultry jazzy voice and the music is slower paced but the songs that are more upbeat are very stimulating and still mood inspiring. This is by far the best new band that I've been introduced to in years!

Lit up by Skye Edwards' soulfully effervescent vocals and its infectious, sing-along chorus, Morcheeba's Rome Wasn't Built in a Day is one of the most damnably catchy songs I have heard in this millennium, and the accompanying video - which you can currently see on YouTube - is a cheerful, montage-driven match to its romantic uplift. Discovering this UK band well after Edwards' departure, I was delighted to find this best-of compilation recently. Organized by the Godfrey brothers - Ross on guitar and keyboards and Paul on "beats and scratches" - the band was one of the leaders of the "trip hop" movement in the mid-90's, a down-tempo electronic music sound borne out of the club scene in Bristol. This disc covers Morcheeba's first eight years up until 2003 right before Edwards left, a big loss for the brothers since her voice has a distinctive, lustrous world-music quality that would be hard to match for style.

Fortunately, we have these eighteen tracks with Edwards for posterity. Most have a loping ambient quality like the trance-laden "The Sea", the hypnotic "Blindfold", the samba-sized "Let Me See" and the twangy "Part of the Process", all from the band's best-selling breakthrough 1998 disc, Big Calm. You can hear a mellow, radio-friendly pop sound pervading the later tracks like "Otherwise", "Undress Me Now" and "Way Beyond" from 2002's Charango. Rapper Big Daddy Kane joins in on the robotically hip-hop "What's Your Name?", and Kurt Wagner of the alternative country band Lambchop duets with Edwards on the hallucinogenic trance, "What New York Couples Fight About". My favorite tracks are from 2002's Fragments of Freedom - the beat-happy "Be Yourself" and of course, "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day". Especially with Edwards at the forefront, Morcheeba is a band worth discovering or rediscovering on this side of the Atlantic if you have an affinity for chill-out music.

This compilation is a treasure trove of enrapturing, shimmering tracks from one of the best trip-hop ensembles out there, especially if you're new to the group. The key to Morcheeba's sound is smooth grooves as opposed to the jarring angst of some of their trip-hop brethren. Although the dark and evil stuff is perfectly incredible for the best trip-hoppers, especially Massive Attack who can be considered the dark counterpoint to Morcheeba's bright goodness. Morcheeba's secret weapon is singer Skye, whose seductive and often beautiful voice fits the grooves effortlessly. Meanwhile the Godfrey brothers construct lush and surging soundscapes that are enthralling but only trippy in deeper ways. Morcheeba's sounds range from the spooky in "Trigger Hippie" and "Never an Easy Way," to moments of unexpected beauty in "Over and Over" and "Way Beyond." The only misstep here is the clumsy rap-crossover attempt "What's My Name" which probably should have been left off of this otherwise cohesive collection. But as an overall package, this compilation is a fantastic summary and introduction to a talented troupe that should be bigger on this side of the pond. [~doomsdayer520~]

I have to a admit that I bought this Best Of only because I heard What's Your Name on the radio and I liked it. I didn't appreciate Morcheeba much but hearing this album made me change my mind. They're songs are absolutely wonderful.
They're strongest at the ballads (The Sea, Otherwise, Blindfold, Part Of The Process, Undress Me Now, Over And Over, What New York Couples Fight About, World Looking In). The special ones for me are The Sea and Part Of The Process. Since I live by the sea I don't need to explain the first song, but the other has wonderful lyrics (I don't realize how good lyrics they can write), it simply touches something in you. What New York Couples Fight About is a great song. We were all in love so we can relate to it.
But the "happy" songs are good too. Especially What's Your Name and Rome Wasn't Built In A Day. Actually Rome... was they're first hit.
The special edition album includes a bonus DVD. It contains 3 live performances from they're Live At Brixton Academy DVD (The Sea, Part Of The Process, Trigger Hippie).

It's a really nice album. You can listen to it for hours without getting tired. The style of Morcheeba is unique and is getting better and more sophisticated with the time. I strongly recommend it as an icon of POP music for this 2003.

This is the worst CD I have bought in YEARS! Morsheeba seems to have all of the right elements. The music is good, the singing is good, but it does not fit. I think the writing and lyrics are a bit off and may the reason that it does not come together. I am a very open minded person and I look for the good in everything, but just could not find it here.