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The Singles [CD]

Goldfrapp Audio CD
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Sex, subversion, style, humour, songs: great pop music's greatest components. And Goldfrapp have always known it.

Through pioneering electronics, crystalline vocals, visual theatrics and glam-sex decadence, they've moved through the ambient shadows into the technicolour thrill that is the hallmark of classic British pop music. After 'Felt Mountain' (2000), their glacial, Mercury Award nominated… Read more in Amazon's Goldfrapp Store

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  • Audio CD (6 Feb 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Parlophone
  • ASIN: B006JXW1CC
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 656 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Ooh La La 3:25£0.89
Listen  2. Number 1 3:25£0.89
Listen  3. Strict Machine (Single Mix) 3:42£0.89
Listen  4. Lovely Head 3:47£0.89
Listen  5. Utopia (Genetically Enriched) 3:51£0.89
Listen  6. A&E 3:18£0.89
Listen  7. Happiness (Single Version) 3:37£0.89
Listen  8. Train 4:11£0.89
Listen  9. Ride A White Horse (Single Version) 3:44£0.89
Listen10. Rocket 3:52£0.89
Listen11. Believer 3:44£0.89
Listen12. Black Cherry 4:56£0.89
Listen13. Yellow Halo 4:42£0.89
Listen14. Melancholy Sky 4:27£0.89


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BBC Review

One of the many fascinating things about Goldfrapp throughout their 12-year career has been the impossibility of pinning them down. Emerging from trip-hop’s ashes, debut Felt Mountain dealt in moody, manicured atmospherics, purpose-built for adverts and dinner parties. Then came their dramatic, wildly successful volte-face into Black Cherry’s sleazy, scuzzy electro. Just as they seemed to have settled down as dancefloor dominators with Supernature they mutated again, into the semi-acoustic, mumbling melancholy of Seventh Tree. This singles retrospective finally offers a chance to assess their wayward career as a whole. It makes one thing absolutely clear: whatever else they were up to, Goldfrapp have always delivered astonishing pop singles.

From the moment the swaggering Ooh La La begins its slow-building throb from the speakers until the moment the hushed, stunned Black Cherry staggers to its tear-stained denouement, Singles offers a master-class in how to write pop songs as alluring and adventurous in their sonic texture as they are addictive melodically. Alison Goldfrapp’s greatest achievement hasn’t been her power and range, which she has often concealed, but her willingness to surrender her voice to the needs of the songs she and Will Gregory so lovingly assembled. She’s the anti-Aguilera, enemy of X Factor showboaters everywhere.

On one of their biggest hits, the stately synth prowl of Number 1, Goldfrapp barely breaks a vocal sweat, restraining herself to a seductive, low-key purr throughout. It’s only in the dying seconds of Utopia, a song that is somehow both sinister and almost unbearably beautiful, that she finally unleashes an operatic wail so electrifying it paralyses the listener. Elsewhere, on the ravishing fusion of Moroder disco, glam strut and snarling electronica that is Strict Machine, Goldfrapp is all gasps, gulps and sexual ecstasy, while on Rocket she goes for the pop jugular, slamming home the monster "wo-oh-oh" chorus with glorious nonchalance.

It’s perhaps inevitable that a singles collection smoothes out the awkward edges and perversity that made Goldfrapp vastly more intriguing than their rivals, and which have profoundly influenced our best new pop stars, from Lady Gaga to Robyn. Only the buzz-saw synths that carry the lurching Train along and the shredding electronic howls that shatter Lovely Head’s narcotic sleepiness remind us of how deliciously odd they could be. If the lovely but meandering new songs Yellow Halo and Melancholy Sky are anything to go by, it’s an oddity that Goldfrapp may have left behind anyway.

Still, even minor criticisms of this collection seem not just churlish but flat-out ungrateful. Fourteen songs that veer between the perfect and the merely outstanding, The Singles is proof that Goldfrapp have been the most versatile and most consistently, glitteringly brilliant pop band of our new millennium.

--Jaime Gill

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14-track hits collection from UK electro-pop icons, includes 'Strict Machine' 'Black Cherry' & 'Ooh La La'

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Goldfrapp are one of those bands that most people have heard, but this familiarity has never blossomed into a true commercial awareness. This collection of singles (and two new tracks) is a perfect introduction to their sound.

The glam-rock of T-Rex is a dominant influence that comes to mind in songs like 'Ooh La La', 'Number 1' and 'Strict Machine', except that Goldfrapp's production also incorporates a sleek disco thud and bursts of measured synth (including the euphoric crescendo in 'Number 1'). Exceptions include 'A&E', a great acoustic track that stands out with its yearning simplicity and 'Black Cherry' that bathes in classical strings, a drum-machine tick and longing vocals.

This is a fantastic showcase for the group's pop sensibilities and I heartily recommend it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Simply put fans wont find much new here save for the two new singles.

But what this cd does do is show us the versatility and vibrancy that Goldfrapp have consistently given from ambienmt chill out to thumping post disco and glam rock right down to acoustic melancholy and 80's euphoria there is something for everyone and a reminder that Goldfrapp are much underrated but nothing if not inspired and briliant.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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..with apologies to Smokey Robinson. I have no doubt about the quality of the songs on this compilation. I guess it's designed to be an introduction to Goldfrapp, but I thought it worth pointing out that at the moment one can buy the first four albums by Goldfrapp on Amazon for the grand total of £5.04, if you're not bothered about buying used copies. So you'll get far more music, and in its original context, for not much more than half the new price. Just a thought....
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
A must for all Goldfrapp fans !!!
This is an absolute must for Goldfrapp fans (and those who are unfamiliar with this music).

It is a great collection of their greatest hits. Read more
Published 2 months ago by vince69music
Disappointingly short
As someone who regularly makes their own 'Best of Goldfrapp' cd with each successive release I know how difficult it is to choose just twenty or so of their brilliant songs to fit... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jamie B
Glorious Goldfrapp!
Its missing a couple of key tracks like 'Pilots' and 'Caravan Girl' but still a great concise representation of the band. The two new tracks are worth it alone. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Veronica Electronica
Goldfrapp: the intro
For fans who loves all their exquisite singles, this is sort of a compact compilation to show how diverse the music of Goldfrapp can be. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ben
maybe next time?
i have loved goldfrapp from day one and i have all of their cds.
this singles collection is good but it only includes the radio friendly 7" mixes. Read more
Published 3 months ago by G. V. Best
Goldfrapp Hits
"The Singles" by Goldfrapp are a great collection of musical tracks that display diverse life themes. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Stella Carrier
An ideal introduction to Goldfrapp...
...though there's little on here for the fans, save for two new songs - "Yellow Halo" and "Melancholy Sky" but nowadays one can of course download these, without bothering with the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Colin Mccartney
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All the songs are excellent.But I think it will be better if it has two CDs or include a DVD.
Published 3 months ago by Xiaoliang
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