Golden Greats

Golden Greats Artist: Ian Brown
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731454372022
EAN: 0731454372022
ASIN: B00004STP9


Release Date: 2000-04-25

Golden Greats


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Tracks:

  1. Gettin' High
  2. Love Like A Fountain
  3. Free My Way
  4. Set My Baby Free
  5. So Many Soldiers
  6. Golden Gaze
  7. Dolphins Were Monkeys
  8. Neptune
  9. First World
  10. Babasonicos
  11. Love Like A Fountain (U.S. Version)
  12. Dolphins Were Monkeys (UNKLE Vs. SOUTH Remix)

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The Stone Roses were one of rock & roll's brilliant failures. Even more so than Guns N' Roses, the Stones Roses allowed controversy to override the mission. It took them six years to release two albums. The first helped define Manchester's psychedelic rock scene, while the second proved they'd ingested the classic-rock library well enough to regurgitate it at will. As the cheeky lead singer, Ian Brown exudes overreaching self-confidence and an inability to feel silly in any pose. <I>Golden Greats</I> benefits from this. "Love Like a Fountain" is what you'd expect: a droning, psychedelic dance-floor hybrid of mesmerizing beats and lazy, ethereal blasts of melody. "Free My Way," however, is the sound of an acid casualty spouting trippy insights. "So Many Soldiers" could be his tribute to Julian Cope. Years have passed, but the music hasn't changed much. Brown knows that washes of shrieking keyboards create alternate universes, but people's attention tends to wander if you don't marry it to a danceable groove. <I>--Rob O'Connor</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Very very good.......2004-11-26

I was personally a bit disappointed with Brown's first solo effort "Unfinished Monkey Business", and purchased "Golden Greats" with a great measure of hesitation. I'm happy to say, then, that the album has over the years given much much joy and listening-pleasure.
The grooves on "Golden Greats" are somewhat loose and hazy, yet they do not lack focus or melody.
Overall, highly recommended, a fine return to form for Mr. Brown and - if you needed any further incentive to purchase this disc - the "DOLPHINS WERE MONKEYS" remix by U.N.K.L.E. is pretty bloody amazing.

3 out of 5 stars Ian Brown's Golden Beats.......2004-09-20

Golden Greats is an alright album if you just turn your brain off and settle in with Ian Brown's dance groves. But that's about the extent of Golden Greats' virtues.

I can appreciate an Ian Brown solo album for being organic and detailed, but they are not intricate or amazing. There is a difference between the two, and listening to an album like Golden Greats convinces you that there is some resistence at work against Ian Brown. Too bad, because you can tell that's what his music is shooting for.

Like I mentioned earlier, the dancier side of Golden Greats is its highlight. Love Like A Fountain, Golden Gaze, If Dolphins Were Monkeys, and Gettin' High thump like crazy. But there is not enough musically speaking to carry Free My Way, Set My Baby Free, and So Man Soldiers, although I do like the chorus. All he sings is "So many soldiers come home." Simply great.

The last three songs really do spiral down to nothing. They are the types of songs that are dressed up with all kinds of ornate noises and cool beats but nothing else. Should you peel back all of the layers, you won't find a song.

The fact that Golden Greats is less song-oriented than Unfinished Monkey Business is what disappoints me. I can appreciate dance beats and weird noises, but you have to have something to back it up. About half of Golden Greats can back up this notion of mine. Half of it is destroyed by logic. Oh well. As I said before, it's best to turn off your brain.

1 out of 5 stars Ian's touch of being on the edge has fallen over the edge.......2004-05-22

Ok, first it is tough not to compare anything Ian has done with The Stone Roses, or his first solo album. In the end, it must be done of course for relativity and mainly because you have to see just how much more he is capable of. You have to credit Brown for his willingness to experiment...but he abandoned his prior mastery of guitar based rock for this??? There is no passion from his voice, and no passion from the dull fuzz beats that change about 16 times a song to no avail. Sure, there is a fan base for this album, but there is a fan base of some kind for every album. 'Getting High' and 'Love Like a Fountain' are the only tracks worth listening to, but after a few listens you aren't too inspired to do much of anything. A great rock record makes you wish you could be John Squire rolling out the guitar parts of 'Breaking into Heaven', or sing something great like Brown did in 'What the World is Waiting For' with the Roses. His first solo album had 5 or 6 great songs, and it is unfortunate that his work later than this album gets even more unlistenable. He needs to kick some life back into it, no matter what it takes.

4 out of 5 stars Comeback Browny.......2003-06-03

Great come Back for the lengend, this album has some whopping tracks. He has a brillyant opener "getting High" and only for Ian we would not have any liam gallager or Richard Ashcroft.

4 out of 5 stars Stone Roses+Stereo MCs= Ian Browns Golden Greats.......2003-03-08

A good cd all around. It has drive, steam, and depth, yet is totally unconfrontational. Good, good, good. The album starts out with "Gettin' High", complete with a strong guitar riff and rough drums. "Love Like a Fountain" gets into a nice groove with plenty of stank on it. "Free My Way" is a quieter digital track; pleasant. "Set My Baby Free" is remarkably memorable, and probably the best vocal track on the album. "So Many Soldiers", though a bit dragging, stitches the previous and the following track together nicely. "Golden Gaze" begins to get the disc back on track with a more upbeat rhythm, and "Dolphins Were Monkeys" plants some fun into the album, winding down in the end to "Neptune" which is, well, probably the only forgetable track due to it's lack of direction. "First World" is a minute-too-long funk-drum laden song, with a tinge of blistering bass guitar; vocals are bit singular in tone.
"Babasonicos" is a lonely 50's style reprisal tune.

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