Shamen Collection

Shamen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: One Little Indian Us
• ASIN: B0001XAQ2S
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,388 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A greatest hits collection, June 17, 2005

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filterite "filterite" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shamen Collection (Audio CD)

The Shamen hit their peak in 1992 with Boss Drum with the British No.1 Ebeneezer Goode. Ever since then they deliberately stayed away from the charts and had been ridiculed by some of the music press. Well naturally this sort of happens.

Either way this greatest hits collection collects most of the material that they did while on One Little Indian so it rather convenient that they left off some of the brilliant singles from pre-OLI days or even the last album they made. But this is understandable. Particularly considering the coded message that was given on Hempton Manor, the last album The Shamen did for One Little Indian.

While the early singles on this compilation bristle with enthusiasm and energy - come Axis Mutatis era singles they seem a little deflated. And the singles are definitely not a representative picture of the Axis Mutatis. While Axis Mutatis is quite spacy to the point of drifting motionlessly in space, the singles are quite flat, as if they never gained lift-off. However Indica suggested that everything was going much more smoothly.

The remix collection I haven't listened to in a long time and is quite frankly something you'd have to go about carefully. The way the whole megamix works by meshing one track into and out of another can be viewed equally as brilliance and headache inducing at the same time. However, I believe that this CD has been repackaged a few times and sold off to unsuspecting customers so if you have this, you don't need another remix CD.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great upbeat listen!, June 5, 2004

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balimichelle (Easton, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shamen Collection (Audio CD)

By listening to this CD of the Shamen's greatest hits you wonder how they never achieved huge status in the US. I love listening to this CD while in the car - it really elevates you.

I recommend this cd as well as En-Tact.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All my favorites, all the best versions, April 9, 2006

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Chase Whiplash - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shamen Collection (Audio CD)

I only recently discovered The Shamen on Internet radio, and I made the mistake of buying "Boss Drum" because it had almost all the songs I was interested in owning. Sadly, though, the "album versions" of nearly all the songs fell pretty short of the versions I'd been grooving to. Then I gave "The Shamen Collection" a shot, and it was absolutely perfect. "Ebeneezer Goode," "Boss Drum," "Phorever People," "L.S.I." (which were the ones I'd bought "Boss Drum" for), plus the excellent "Move Any Mountain" and the cheeseball-but-still-enjoyable "Destination Eschaton" have made me a happy boy. If you've heard The Shamen on a broadcast or on a dance compilation or from a P2P download, you've probably heard what's on "The Shamen Collection."

It's unfortunate that to get those songs, you need to buy a set with an extra CD filled with superfluous remixes, but in the absence of a better option, this is the best way to go.