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Best Greatest Hits Album Ever?

Mike Smith | Albuquerque, NM | 07/30/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you like music that is wildly innovative, danceable, lyrically fascinating and even funny, provocative, insanely structured, and just plain COOL, get this. Now.

If you like music that is kinda dirty, real and raw-sounding, full of spunk and character, full of energy, full of feeling, and sure to make you sing along, get this. Immediately.

If you like music that takes the best of the 1980s, the best of the 1990s, the best of modern dance music, and combines them all into something wholly original, get this. ASAP.

If you like music, if you like to rock out, if you long drives to amazing tunes, if you've ever meditated on the power of great music to change and improve your mood, get this right away.

Man, I just love this CD. I wrote an entire book while listening to it almost, cranking it as loud as it could go in my little basement office. Every song is solid. There is no filler here. Listen to this, but maybe don't listen to it around your kids: there are lots of innuendo-filled lyrics and breathy vocals, the sort of thing you maybe wouldn't play around your parents-in-law. (Depends on your inlaws, though, I suppose.)

Get this, get this, get this. It's a good place to start your obsession with this terrific band. PULP!

(Oh, and I'd just ignore the liner notes. They're kind of...I don't know. For starters, their comment, "10 years on an Island [Island Records]--not even Robinson Crusoe got that," isn't quite right. I think he was on his island for decades. That's petty, but the essay inside: ehh. Some reviewer's pointless rant about listening to them. Like this one here...but more pretentious.)

This could very well be the best greatest hits album ever, in the running with Leonard Cohen's first one and the Velvet Underground's--the sort of greatest hits album that makes a guy think he was too hasty in dismissing greatest hits albums as nothing more than marketing ploys.

Just get this. It is so, so, so good. If I ever had to defend the idea of music in a court of anti-music Nazis (whoa, I think I see a Broadway play here!) this would certain be among my first exhibits."

Pulp Hits

Bjorn Viberg | European Union | 03/26/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Pulp Hits being Pulp's 2002 greatest hits collection and covers their singles from the 90's and onwards when they became popular. The band had in fact been around since 1979 but struck gold in the early 90's. Here we get classic Pulp tracks such as "Babies", "Lipgloss", "Common People" and "A Little Soul" to mention a few of the many gems on this release. The booklet is really nice with well-written liner notes by Harland Miller, very nice photos shot by Willie Seldon and all the lyrics are included which is quite rare being a greatest hits album. The cover I do not like that much since it almost seems like an afterthought. 4/5."