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Jamiroquai: High Times - Singles 1992-2006

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Label: Sony BMG Music Entertainement
Released: 2006
Time:
 74:38
Category: Acis Jazz
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jamiroquai.co.uk
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2008.09.26
Price in €: 7,99



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[1] When You Gonna Learn (Kay) - 3:49
[2] Too Young to Die (Kay/Smith) - 3:23
[3] Blow Your Mind (Kay/Smith) - 3:56
[4] Emergency on Planet Earth (Kay/Smith) - 3:37
[5] Space Cowboy (Kay) - 3:37
[6] Virtual Insanity (Kay/Smith) - 3:49
[7] Cosmic Girl (Kay/McKenzie) - 3:47
[8] Alright (Kay/Smith) - 3:42
[9] High Times (Kay/McKenzie/Smith/Zender) - 4:10
[10] Deeper Underground (Kay/Smith) - 4:46
[11] Canned Heat (Kay) - 3:48
[12] Little L (Kay/Smith) - 3:59
[13] Love Foolosophy (Kay/Smith) - 3:47
[14] Corner of the Earth (Harris/Kay) - 3:56
[15] Feels Just Like It Should (Kay) - 4:33
[16] Seven Days in Sunny June (Johnson/Kay) - 4:02
[17] (Don't) Give Hate a Chance (Harris/Johnson/Kay) - 3:50
[18] Runaway (Harris/Johnson/Kay) - 3:46
[19] Radio (Harris/Johnson/Kay) - 4:12

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Jay Kay - Synthesizer, Arranger, Bass Vocal, Vocals, Background Vocals, Producer, String Arrangements, Art Direction, Mixing, String Writing
Stuart Zender - Bass
Derrick McKenzie - Drums
Toby Smith - Keyboards
Wallis Buchanan - Didjeridu, Vibraphone, Percussion
Simon Katz - Guitars
Nick Fyffe - Bass

Sola Akigbola - Percussion
Simon Hale - Conductor, String Arrangements, Score

Al Stone - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Mike Neilson - Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Original Recordings
Matt Johnson - Producer
Richard Bignell - Engineer, Digital Editing
Pablo Arraya - Engineer
Adrian Bushby - Engineer
Simon Changer - Engineer
Mark McGuire - Engineer, Mixing
Mike Nielsen - Engineer
Ricky Pope - Engineer
Mike Spencer - Programming, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Paul Stoney - Programming, Assistant Engineer
Luke Cohen - Assistant Engineer
Jon Cooke - Art Direction
Tom Coyne - Remastering
James Dimmock - Photography
Gavin Edmonds - String Arrangements
Dan Gennoe - Liner Notes
Rick Guest - Photography
Simon Hale - String Conductor, String Score
David "Sparky" Hughes - Sleeve Photo
Karen Kay - Producer, Engineer, Original Recordings
Chris Lopez - Photography
Seb Marling - Art Direction
Peter Richardson - Design
T. Smith - Producer, String Arrangements, String Writing


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2006 CD Sony 683
2006 CD Sony 01996
2006 CD Epic 88697019962
2006 CD Sony 8218384971
2007 CD Smi SSQ 88697160252

After six studio albums spanning fourteen years of acid jazz, funk and dance, Jamiroquai's greatest hits collection gives a superb overview of a band who have been at the forefront of British pop for their entire career. This anthology includes early gems such as 'When You Gonna Learn' and 'Emergency On Planet Earth' as well as the band's biggest singles, taken from the hugely successful 'Travelling Without Moving',and more recent tracks including 'Feels Just Like It Should'.

The release "High Times: Singles 1992-2006" - a singles collection which contains 16 huge hits from Jamiroquai's extraordinary career to date, plus two new tracks, 'Runaway' and 'Radio'. Sony/BMG. 2006.



With a voice like Stevie Wonder, a production sound that recalls the string-laden, slinky-bass disco of Studio 54, and a penchant for funky dance moves and outlandish hats, Jamiroquai's Jay Kay has successfully managed to straddle the underground and mainstream for the best part of 15 years. High Times brings together 19 of his band's hits to date, ranging from early 90s acid jazz classics "When You Gonna Learn," "Too Young To Die," and "Blow Your Mind," to later successes such as "Canned Heat," "Cosmic Girl," "Virtual Insanity," and on to recent songs from 2005 album Dynamite, such as "Feels Just Like It Should" and "7 Days In Sunny June." There are also two new tracks - the current single "Runaway" and the edgier "Radio," both of which continue the Jamiroquai tradition of mildly euphoric dancefloor disco-soul. Despite sticking to a formula of sorts over the years, the songs on this collection compliment each other well and form an impressive overview of one of the UK's most distinctive bands.

Danny McKenna - Amazon.co.uk



Rundum gelungen ist das erste Best-Of-Album, welches die mittlerweile vierzehn Jahre andauernden Musik-Karriere des Jamiroquai-Kreativen John Kay beleuchtet. Die 18 Groove-Kompositionen umfassende Werkschau ist chronologisch aufgebaut und enthält die wichtigsten Songs aus fünf Alben plus zwei brandneuen Liedern. Komprimierter geht's nicht!

Was der Anlass für die Veröffentlichung dieser CD mit dem etwas irreführend Titel war (es sind nicht sämtliche Singles in den fast eineinhalb Jahrzehnten berücksichtigt, denn das wären insgesamt 28 Stück gewesen!), sei dahingestellt. Einerseits hieß es, dass Kays Vertrag mit Sony BMG nach acht CDs auslaufen und von ihm nicht verlängert werden würde, andererseits ließ der Künstler auf seiner Homepage verlautbaren: "Ich habe ein Kapitel meiner Karriere abgeschlossen und will das nächste aufschlagen. Die neuen Songs klingen ganz anders. Deshalb macht es Sinn, an diesem Zeitpunkt die Greatest-Hits-Compilation herauszubringen!"

Die Resümee-Disc jedenfalls wartet zum Auftakt mit jener Single auf, die im Oktober 1992 den Stein in's Rollen brachte und ihm den umfangreichen Plattendeal bescherte: When You Gonna Learn?. Dieses Lied und drei weitere von seinem Debüt Emergency On Planet Earth (1993) geben einen guten Eindruck der für John Kay typischen Fusion aus Siebziger Soul, Funk, Disco, Acidjazz und House samt seiner stark an Stevie Wonder erinnernden Stimme. Danach folgt Space Cowboy aus The Return Of..., dem Silberling des Jahres 1994. Travelling Without Moving (1996), auf dem der Sportwagenfanatiker die Soul-/Disco-Melange um Pop erweiterte und damit Jamiroquai den internationalen Durchbruch bescherte, ist anhand dreier Titel präsent. Anschließend zwei Kostproben aus Synkronized (1999): Deeper Underground vom Godzilla-Soundtrack sowie das in den Filmen Center Stage (2000) und Napoleon Dynamite (2004) eingesetzte Canned Heat. Der turbogeladene Funk- und Disco-Mix auf A Funk Odyssey aus dem Jahr 2001 ist durch drei Tracks vertreten. Ebenso viele (inklusive "Feels Just Like It Should" aus dem FIFA `06-Soundtrack) repräsentieren die stilistisch besonders vielseitige Dynamite (2005). Bevor 70 Minuten 31 Sekunden ausklingen, gibt es noch die Neukompositionen Runaway (im Siebziger-Jahre-Disco-Flair pulsierend) und der Space-Rockfunk Radio, mit denen die Sechs von Jamiroquai ihre spezielle Dancemusic-Variante innovativ-modern fortführen.

Thomas Hammerl - Amazon.de



Collecting most of Jamiroquai's singles since lead singer Jay Kay first donned a large furry buffalo hat for the band's 1992 debut, Emergency on Planet Earth, High Times: Singles 1992-2006 is a superb listen and a great summation of what has made the retro-futurist funk band so successful. Sure, High Times doesn't include every single they released -- the fantastic "Light Years" and "You Give Me Something" aren't included -- and admittedly it was largely put together to fulfill and finish off Jamiroquai's contract with Sony. Nonetheless, as an encapsulation of what makes Jamiroquai such a phenomenal pop-funk-dance entity, it's an infectiously listenable affair. Running chronologically through the most recognizable singles Kay and company have released, High Times is easily the best collection of Jamiroquai tunes on one disc and hits all of the most memorable tracks off each of the group's albums. Included are such well-known tracks as "Virtual Insanity" (the band's breakthrough single) and "Cosmic Girl," as well as such similarly catchy and funky cuts as the didgeridoo-driven "When You Gonna Learn," the blissed-out "Space Cowboy," and the latter-day would-be disco classic "Little L." Also included are two new recordings, "Runaway" and "Radio," that solidly stand on their own pop merits.

Matt Collar - All Music Guide

 

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