Fireworks: Singles 97-02

Fireworks: Singles 97-02 Artist: Embrace
Label: Virgin
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724381208328
EAN: 0724381208328
ASIN: B000060KBE


Release Date: 2002-03-28

Fireworks: Singles 97-02


Related Categories:

General General
Categories | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Britpop Britpop
Categories | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Post Grunge Post Grunge
Categories | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock Pop Rock
Categories | Pop | Styles | Music
Rock Rock
Categories | Imports | Stores | Music

Tracks:

  1. All You Good Good People
  2. You're Not Alone
  3. Come Back To What You Know
  4. Make It Last
  5. 3 Is A Magic Number
  6. One Big Family
  7. My Weakness Is None Of Your Business
  8. I Wouldn't Wanna Happen To You
  9. Save Me
  10. Hooligan
  11. The Good Will OUt
  12. Wonder
  13. Fireworks

Similar Items:

  1. If You've Never Been
  2. Dry Kids
  3. Drawn from Memory
  4. This New Day
  5. A Glorious Day: Live in Leeds

Album Description

Import only compilation for the British Indie act features the band's eleven hit singles released from the years spent on the Hut label. Also included are two additional tracks, 'The Good Will Out' (previously released on 12-inch only) and a new recording of live favorite '3 Is A Magic Number' (De La Soul cover). Originally from Huddersfield, brothers Danny (lead vocals / guitar) and Richard McNamara (guitar) formed Embrace in the mid-'90s with drummer Mike Heaton and bassist Steven Firth. The group signed with the Hut Recordings label on Virgin in 1996 and released their debut single, 'All You Good, Good People', (on the Indie label Fierce Panda) in February 1997, followed by the singles 'Fireworks' and 'One Big Family', which were both released on Hut. These singles generated some interest in the music press, and were relatively successful, but it was with the re-release of 'All You Good, Good People' on Hut in October '97 which brought them wider attention, entering the singles chart at #8. The band received a Brit Award nomination for Best New Band in February that year. Embrace continued to build on their strong UK fanbase with the next two albums, Drawn from Memory (2000) and If You've Never Been (2001), with the addition of Mick Dale on keyboards, releasing the Fireworks: Singles 97-02 collection. In 2002, they signed to Independiente and released their fourth (and most successful) album Out of Nothing in September 2004.

Album Details

Embrace's Singles Collection Includes their Eleven Singles to Date Together with 'the Good Will Out' (Previously Released on 12 Inch Only) and a New Recording of a Live Favorite, '3 is a Magic Number.'

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Good wrap-up.......2007-03-24

I'm an Embrace fan- and so, looking to backfill my collection, I picked up their early "greatest hits" collection.

The good news is that the good, or excellent songs, are really excellent additions that can't be purchased individually through an outlet such as iTunes. Of course, the attrocious songs- such as "3 is a Magic Number"- are strikingly similar to bad karoake.

The highlights, then are:
* You're not Alone
* Come Back to what you Know
* Make It Last
* My Weakness is None of Your Business
* The Good Will Out
* Fireworks

Bottom line: good for the Embrace fans; otherwise, stick to their newer albums/CDs.

4 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. No Surprise ~ Theory of a Deadman
  2. Beware of Dog ~ Hangdogs
  3. The Aether Eater ~ Odawas
  4. Miscellaneous Heathen ~ John Hoskinson
  5. When You Were Mine ~ John Waite
  6. Happiness? ~ Roger Taylor
  7. Backstreet's Back ~ Backstreet Boys
  8. Second Album ~ Roy Buchanan
  9. Disraeli Gears ~ Cream
  10. The Temptin' Temptations ~ The Temptations

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Personal Standards ~ Alan Broadbent

At the Stratford Shakesperean Festival ~ Oscar Peterson Trio

Harlem Sunset ~ Chip White

Off the Ground ~ The Max Perkoff Jazz Ensemble

Tears ~ Django Reinhardt & Le Quintette du Hot

Waiting for Spring ~ David Benoit

Singt Und Erzahlt Von Alfred Jodocus Kwa ~ Herman Van Veen

Les Hits du Mapouka, Vol.2 ~ Various Artists

Les Animals ~ Mano Solo

Global Treckin ~ S.P.C.