- Jubilee offer: spend £10 or more on any product sold by Amazon.co.uk on or before June 6 and you can buy The Diamond Jubilee A Classical Celebration Album for just £2.50 Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More. |
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Burn Baby Burn | |||
| 2. Envy | |||
| 3. Girl From Mars | |||
| 4. Shining Light | |||
| 5. A Life Less Ordinary | |||
| 6. Goldfinger | |||
| 7. Jesus Says | |||
| 8. Oh Yeah | |||
| 9. Jack Names The Planet | |||
| 10. Sometimes | |||
See all 19 tracks on this disc
| |||
| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. No Place To Hide | |||
| 2. Warmer Than Fire | |||
| 3. Where Is Our Love Going? | |||
| 4. Taken Out | |||
| 5. 13th Floor | |||
| 6. Stormy Waters | |||
| 7. Message From Oscar Wilde And Patrick The Brewer | |||
| 8. Who You Drivin' Now? | |||
| 9. Stay In Love Forever | |||
| 10. The Sweetness Of Death By The Obsidian Knife | |||
|
See all 22 tracks on this disc
| |||
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Intergalactic Sonic 7"s, which arrives hot on the heels of their blistering "Burn Baby Burn" success, confirms what everyone knew already--Ash are a great singles band. It's amazing how often they pull off a perfect three minutes--even though just teenagers at the time of their debut. Witness the bittersweet memories of "Girl From Mars", the rain-lashed, drunken teenage love of "Goldfinger" through the glorious adolescence of "Oh Yeah" (and who hasn't experienced that hormonal surging as "her hair came undone in my hands"?). Compiling a standard tracklisting would always be a hideous undertaking, hence the proud emergence of this 19 track beast instead.
The Free All Angels singles continue this remarkable tradition, best demonstrated in "Sometimes", a song as close to perfection as possible that--along with "Shining Light", "Burn Baby Burn" and "Walking Barefoot" (not actually a single, but one that should have been)--show the maturity in Wheeler's songwriting and musicianship that resurrected his band from the edge of disaster after the fallout from the non-conforming Nu-Clear Sounds. Token new track "Envy" seems pale in comparison, largely due to the quality of Free All Angels material, but at least the grimy New York gutter riffage of the swaggering "Jesus Says" and summertime exuberance of "Wildsurf" are given the air they need here. Also present is the much-underrated but indispensable "A Life Less Ordinary", finally in a place that it deserves along with some earlier efforts ("Petrol") that perhaps are not. Ash are what teenagers with guitars should sound like, because teenage boys care about girls and getting wasted, not becoming victims of conformity. --Ben Johncock
Product Description
ASH Intergalactic Sonic 7s (2002 German issue 2-CD set comprising of 19-track CD album which collects all their singles released between 1994 to 2002 plus Cosmic Debris BONUS disc which features 22 b-sides and rare recordings fold-outbooklet with brief biography information sleeve images & lyrics)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Although only in their twenties, Northern Ireland's Ash have been around for many years, and have survived hard times as well as revelling in real success, including this collection of singles. Their tracks vary quite a bit, ranging from the intense shouty Numbskull to the pop-tastic Wildsurf, the beautifully poignant Sometimes and the exhuberantly orchestral Candy. Essentially they hinge around power-pop, with airy riffs and optimistic lyrics, mostly about love and lust. Anyone who likes Weezer or Fountains Of Wayne will love this.
Most of the tracks on here are extremely impressive - both Shining Light (a melancholic ballad which can be seen as being about love, God or drugs, depending on interpretation) and Burn Baby Burn (the ultimate in singalong rock) having won Single Of the Year awards (for the same year). Sometimes is my absolute favourite though, the sheer beauty has to be heard to be believed.
The earlier hits such as Girl From Mars and Oh Yeah have such wistful innocence and joie de vivre that it's hard not to be impressed, especially as the band wrote them while still at school. Although their Nu-Clear Sounds album wasn't as commercially successful, it supplies three great tracks here - Numbskull, Jesus Says and Wildsurf.
The second disk is superb as well, comprising some of their classic bonus tracks. They've clearly taken a lot of pride in many of these, most would be up to album standard, and several (especially The Sweetness Of Death, Nocturne and 13th Floor) could easily be hts in their own right. The Sweetness of Death is almost certainly the only song ever to make a melody out of the word 'melatonin', which has to be worth something in itself.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In regards to the review below by Edna Sweetlove - your comments make no sense to me. If you want to criticize Ash for their music then fine, but having a go just because they dont sound "Irish" enough is ludricous and unfair. If they were from England would you be saying that they dont sound "English" enough? Ash have never set out to pander to the kind of faux Irishness that rubbish like the Coors do, and instead sound like their influences which is mainly US punk pop and classic rock.
Now whilst I admit that Ash are not one of the worlds greatest bands by any stretch of the imagination, they have nonetheless produced some corking classic singles - Kung Fu, Girl From Mars, Jack Names The Planets, Angel Interceptor, Goldfinger, Walking Barefoot, Burn Baby Burn - and seeing as this collection contains them all I will happily give this 4 stars.
Now whilst I admit that Ash are not one of the worlds greatest bands by any stretch of the imagination, they have nonetheless produced some corking classic singles - Kung Fu, Girl From Mars, Jack Names The Planets, Angel Interceptor, Goldfinger, Walking Barefoot, Burn Baby Burn - and seeing as this collection contains them all I will happily give this 4 stars.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Finally – a chance to have Ash’s best all on one CD! As much as I love their music, there is a tendency for Ash albums to contain a couple of dodgy tracks which always result in you pressing the skip button every so often. But a collection of all their best ends all that – there is not a single track on this album deserving of a skip. With a fantastic opening from their more recent “Burn Baby Burn”, through to the heavy “Numbskull”, this singles compilation is proof of Ash’s talent and range of sounds. The classics “Girl from Mars” and “A Life Less Ordinary” (which incidentally doesn’t feature on any other Ash album) both feature, along with a few of their really early tracks like the fantastic “Uncle Pat”, which you may not have heard if you haven’t heard their demo album. This will add to the collection of any fan and also gain them new fans along the way – if you don’t have any of the band’s material, buy this record because it will introduce you to the musical greatness that is ASH!
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Sweet
Even if this release didn't have the first disc, this would be excellent value for money. It is the test of a band's worth when presented with b-sides and rarities and other... Read more
Published 6 months ago by ratmonkey
super sonic
fantastic album. It has all the hits plus alot more. An amazing price from this seller as well. £30 from itunes, a bit on the steep side, but from amazon sellers fantastic. Read more
Published 11 months ago by oddbod
At last a band with enough great songs for a greatest hits CD
I bought this after watching a wedding video where the film maker had used a cover of 'Shining Light' to great effect (a song Annie Lennox has also covered) it was only after... Read more
Published 22 months ago by John Davis
Great Value
2CDs; their greatest hits and their b-sides. Could you ask for more in one purchase? Such a great band, buy it.
Published 22 months ago by Smithy
Ash blow you away!
Pity they never brought out many albums, as I think they were one of the underrated bands during their time!
Published on 14 Dec 2009 by SL
Buy it - Love it
This is a must for all Ash fans - 2 cds filled to the brim of what Ash do best! While one contains all the tracks you know, the other is full of the ones you should know! Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2007 by leeshyleesh
This is so groovy (not)
I liked Irish music until I heard this. Wonderful to realise there are some Irish people without a single musical note in their entire collective bodies. Read more
Published on 26 July 2006 by Edna Sweetlove
You have to buy this album!
Cd 1 of this album is absolute perfection! "Burn Baby Burn", "Shining Light" and "Sometimes" are three of the best songs around! Read more
Published on 3 April 2005 by "phlipme"
Ireland's finest deliver a blast of summery pop goodness
Ash are a band that sound as youthful as they are. They have the same lyrical obsessions as early Beach Boys - sun, surf and young love. Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2005
this is great!!!!
i haven't got this album yet, although i'm hoping to get it for christmas. but i have borrowed it and it's amazing! Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2004 by "emzy-baby"
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Listmania!
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
