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Singles

~ Inspiral Carpets
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (15 Sep 1995)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Cow
  • ASIN: B000026ZKS
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 50,502 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Joe 3:24£0.69
Listen  2. Find Out Why 2:04£0.69
Listen  3. Move 3:25£0.69
Listen  4. This Is How It Feels 3:13£0.79
Listen  5. She Comes In The Fall 4:10£0.69
Listen  6. Commercial Reign 4:43£0.69
Listen  7. Sackville 4:59£0.69
Listen  8. Biggest Mountain 4:29£0.69
Listen  9. Weakness 4:18£0.69
Listen10. Caravan 5:46£0.69
Listen11. Please Be Cruel 3:38£0.69
Listen12. Dragging Me Down (7" Version) 4:33£0.69
Listen13. Two Worlds Collide (7" Mix) 4:41£0.69
Listen14. Generations 2:50£0.69
Listen15. Bitches Brew 3:52£0.69
Listen16. How It Should Be 3:18£0.69
Listen17. Saturn 5 4:00£0.79
Listen18. I Want You 3:10£0.69
Listen19. Uniform 3:54£0.69

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With this circa 1995 compilation, Inspiral Carpets called it a day (though they did regroup years later). These early singles showcase a group who play with nimble, slightly manicdexterity, all held together in an organ-drenched daze thatplaced them firmly in the Madchester scene. Their most sublime moment comes with 1990's "This is How it Feels", which remained the Inspiral Carpet's biggest hit. As the collectionprogresses chronologically, they also begin to explore new territory, notably on the single-only "I Want You", a duet with The Fall's Mark E. Smith. A band ultimately more adept at singles than at full albums, THE SINGLES remains Inspiral Carpets' definitive collection.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Criminally Under-rated But Inspirational., 15 Mar 2003
By Mr. T. M. Ray "hairyworm2002" (Wales) - See all my reviews
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The Inspiral Carpets lived in the shadows cast by [the mighty] Stone Roses and the [criminally over-rated] Happy Mondays. Yet, despite this they managed to flourish, recording 4 albums and loads of singles. They provided a raw but melodic underbelly to the Madchester scene.

For those unfamiliar with their music, The Inspiral Carpets started out peddling a rough brand of farsifa organ driven garage rock influenced by the likes of ? & The Mysterians [they even covered 96 Tears on an early tape]. Though cruder than the Stone Roses their songs are imaginative, melody-driven and energetic.

With each subsequent release they became more polished and, to be honest, as their career progressed their music became less interesting to my ears at least. However they still managed to turn out the odd pseudo-psych-pop gem.

This singles collection on the whole captures the band at their best. "This Is How It Feels" is perhaps their most memorable track, but many of these songs are as strong and equally deserving of your ear. Whilst I would advocate caution in exploring their catalogue I thoroughly recommend this collection. They were never really in step with the blossoming rave culture of the time and perhaps this was responsible for their relatively limited success. Yet at their best they were brilliant and deserve to stand proud on the podium next to the Stone Roses as the 2nd best band to come out of Manchester in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Give this one a blast.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, all the way through., 4 April 2000
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We all remember "this is how it feels" by this group and I must confess that I only bought this disc for this track. After overdosing myself with the track for over an hour, I sat back and listened to the rest of the disc. What a shock! It is fantastic. There is not a poor track on the whole album. I would say their music is like a mix of the Jam and the Stranglers. It is almost like very mild rock. A truly stunning album that I would recommend to any one who likes music with real instruments with real songs.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The next best thing to a GIG in your living room, 13 Dec 2000
Having seen the inspirals in concert a couple of times, and picking up one or two singles along the road, I decided that this compilation album would be worth a look, and boy was I right. This Is How It Feels never fails to send shivers up and down your spine, and when placed alongside tracks such as Joe and Bitches Brew it only serves to amplify this terrific group. A definate buy...
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