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A sensibly titled 15-track epitaph to one of the most premature of all the Brit-pop bandwagon's many casualties, Greatest Hits rounds up each of Catatonia's major U.K. hits, alongside a clutch of well-chosen album cuts and, by way of completeness, the two duets that further established vocalist Cerys Matthews among the country's best-loved performers, "The Ballad of Tom Jones," cut with Space, and "Baby It's Cold Outside," a hit alongside Tom Jones. Elsewhere, "Strange Glue," "Road Rage," "Dead From the Waist Down," and "I Am the Mob" deliver a chain of pop confections that are as memorable as their titles, with Matthews' distinctively half-husky voice imbibing the daftest lyric with a deft vulnerability: "I put horses heads in people's beds," indeed. From the opening "Mulder and Scully"'s heartfelt dismissal of parenthood ("As for some happy ending, I'd rather stay single and thin"), to "Game On"'s defiant, "I know that I could never fall from grace, I'm much too clever," Catatonia in general, and Matthews in particular, packed an electricity that left much of the rest of the pop pack simply gasping in their wake. That fact is reinforced across the bonus disc attached to early pressings of Greatest Hits, wrapping up ten B-sides dating back to 1996 and the deceptively sweet "Do You Believe in Me?" It's a scattershot selection that omits far too many gems to be anything more than a pleasant distraction, but if you were luckless enough to have missed the original singles, you'll be pleased to have it anyway.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Aled Richards, Composer - Mark Roberts, Composer - Owen Powell, Composer - Catatonia, Producer, MainArtist - Cerys Matthews, Composer, Vocals - Paul Jones, Composer - Joe Gibb, Engineer - Roland Herrington, Mixer - Jason Harris, AssistantEngineer - Tommy D, Producer, Mixer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1998 Warner Music UK LImited
Jeremy Wheatley, Producer, Mixer, Engineer - Scott, Writer - Kevin Metcalfe, Masterer - Space, Producer, Writer, MainArtist - Cerys, FeaturedArtist
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1997 Gut Records Ltd
Aled Richards, Composer - Mark Roberts, Composer - Owen Powell, Composer - Catatonia, Producer, MainArtist - Cerys Matthews, Composer, Vocals - Paul Jones, Composer - Tommy D., Producer, Mixer - Joe Gibb, Engineer - Roland Herrington, Mixer - Jason Harris, AssistantEngineer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1998 Warner Music UK LImited
Aled Richards, Writer - Mark Roberts, Writer - Owen Powell, Writer - Catatonia, Producer, MainArtist - Cerys Matthews, Vocals, Writer - David Jones, Writer - Tommy D., Producer, Mixer - Joe Gibb, Engineer - Roland Herrington, Mixer - Jason Harris, AssistantEngineer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1998 Warner Music UK LImited
Jones, Composer - Pablo, Percussion - Ian Stanley, Mixer, Remixer - Catatonia, Composer, MainArtist - Matthews, Composer - Roberts, Composer - Simon Hale, Strings - David Daniels, Strings - Powell, Composer - Richards, Composer - CLIVE LANGER, Production - Peter Lale, Strings - Gavin Wright, Strings - Patrick Kiernan, Strings - Julian Leaper, Strings - Bruce White, Strings - Martin Loveday, Strings - Osian Gwynedd, Keyboards - Alan Winstanley, Production - Vaughan Armon, Strings - Jackie Shave, Strings - Pery Montague-Mason, Strings
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 2001 Warner Music UK Ltd
Catatonia, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Roberts, Composer - Tommy D., Producer, Mixer, Remixer - Joe Gibb, Engineer - Roland Herrington, Mixer, Remixer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1999 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Aled Richards, Composer - Mark Roberts, Composer - Owen Powell, Composer - Catatonia, Producer, MainArtist - Cerys Matthews, Composer, Vocals - Paul Jones, Composer - Tommy D., Producer, Mixer - Joe Gibb, Engineer - Roland Herrington, Mixer - Paul Read, Engineer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1998 Warner Music UK LImited
Mark Roberts, Guitar - Catatonia, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Writer, MainArtist - Cerys Matthews, Vocals - Roberts, Composer, Lyricist, Writer - Paul Jones, Bass - Tommy D., Producer, Mixer, Remixer - Joe Gibb, Engineer - Roland Herrington, Mixer, Remixer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1999 Warner Music UK Ltd.
Catatonia, Producer, MainArtist - Matthews, Composer, Writer - Roberts, Composer, Writer - Steve Howard, Engineer - Tommy D., Mixer, Additional Producer - Julian Mendelsohn, Mixer - Gordon Vicary, Masterer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1996 Warner Music UK Ltd
Catatonia, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Matthews, Composer - Tommy D., Producer, Mixer, Remixer - Joe Gibb, Engineer - Roland Herrington, Mixer, Remixer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1999 Warner Music UK Ltd.
John Smith, Mixer, Engineer - Catatonia, MainArtist - Matthews, Composer, Writer - Roberts, Composer, Writer - STEPHEN STREET, Producer, Mixer - Matthew, Composer - Gordon Vicary, Masterer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1996 Warner Music UK Ltd
Aled Richards, Composer - Mark Roberts, Composer - Owen Powell, Composer - Catatonia, Producer, MainArtist - Cerys Matthews, Composer, Vocals - Dave Bascombe, Mixer, Remixer - Paul Jones, Composer - Tommy D., Producer - Joe Gibb, Engineer - Jason Harris, AssistantEngineer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1998 Warner Music UK LImited
John Smith, Mixer, AdditionalEngineer - Dafydd Ieuan, Drums - Mark Roberts, Guitar - Catatonia, Producer, MainArtist - Cerys Matthews, Vocals - Matthews, Composer, Writer - Roberts, Composer, Writer - STEPHEN STREET, Mixer, Additional Producer - Paul Jones, Bass - Gordon Vicary at The Townhouse Studios, Masterer - Paul Sampson, Producer - John Cornfield, Engineer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1996 Warner Music UK Ltd
Mark Roberts, Composer - Catatonia, MainArtist - Cerys Matthews, Composer - Matthews, Composer, Writer - Roberts, Composer, Writer - Gordon Vicary at The Townhouse Studios, Masterer - Paul Sampson, Producer, Mixer, Engineer
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 1996 Warner Music UK Ltd
Album review
A sensibly titled 15-track epitaph to one of the most premature of all the Brit-pop bandwagon's many casualties, Greatest Hits rounds up each of Catatonia's major U.K. hits, alongside a clutch of well-chosen album cuts and, by way of completeness, the two duets that further established vocalist Cerys Matthews among the country's best-loved performers, "The Ballad of Tom Jones," cut with Space, and "Baby It's Cold Outside," a hit alongside Tom Jones. Elsewhere, "Strange Glue," "Road Rage," "Dead From the Waist Down," and "I Am the Mob" deliver a chain of pop confections that are as memorable as their titles, with Matthews' distinctively half-husky voice imbibing the daftest lyric with a deft vulnerability: "I put horses heads in people's beds," indeed. From the opening "Mulder and Scully"'s heartfelt dismissal of parenthood ("As for some happy ending, I'd rather stay single and thin"), to "Game On"'s defiant, "I know that I could never fall from grace, I'm much too clever," Catatonia in general, and Matthews in particular, packed an electricity that left much of the rest of the pop pack simply gasping in their wake. That fact is reinforced across the bonus disc attached to early pressings of Greatest Hits, wrapping up ten B-sides dating back to 1996 and the deceptively sweet "Do You Believe in Me?" It's a scattershot selection that omits far too many gems to be anything more than a pleasant distraction, but if you were luckless enough to have missed the original singles, you'll be pleased to have it anyway.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:55:34
- Main artists: Catatonia
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: WM UK
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd ℗ 2002 This compilation: (P) 2002 Warner Music UK Ltd
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