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Intergalactic Sonic 7"s: The Best of Ash |  | Artist: Ash
Label: Infectious
Category: Music
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 2153
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
UPC: 505046695642
EAN: 0505046695642
ASIN: B00006CTCW
Release Date: September 9, 2002
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Burn Baby Burn | | • | Envy | | • | Girl From Mars | | • | Shining Light | | • | A Life Less Ordinary | | • | Goldfinger | | • | Jesus Says | | • | Oh Yeah | | • | Jack Names the Planets | | • | Sometimes | | • | Kung Fu | | • | Candy | | • | Angel Interceptor | | • | Uncle Pat | | • | Wildsurf | | • | Walking Barefoot | | • | Petrol | | • | There's a Star | | • | Numbskull |
Disc 2
| • | No Place To Hide | | • | Warmer Than Fire | | • | Where Is Our Love Going? | | • | Taken Out | | • | 13th Floor | | • | Stormy Waters | | • | Message From Oscar Wilder and Patrick The Brewer | | • | Who You Drivin Now? | | • | Stay In Love Forever | | • | The Sweetness of Death by the Obsidian Knife | | • | Melon Farmer | | • | Nocturne | | • | Gabriel | | • | Coasting | | • | Lose Control | | • | I Need Somebody | | • | Sneaker | | • | Cantina Band | | • | Astral Conversations with Toulouse Lautrec | | • | Day of the Triffids | | • | Halloween | | • | Thinking About You |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
IIntergalactic Sonic 7"s/I, which arrives hot on the heels of their blistering "Burn Baby Burn" success, confirms what everyone knew already--Ash are a great singles band. It's amazing how often they pull off a perfect three minutes--even though just teenagers at the time of their debut. Witness the bittersweet memories of "Girl From Mars", the rain-lashed, drunken teenage love of "Goldfinger" through the glorious adolescence of "Oh Yeah" (and who hasn't experienced that hormonal surging as "her hair came undone in my hands"?). Compiling a standard tracklisting would always be a hideous undertaking, hence the proud emergence of this 19 track beast instead. p The IFree All Angels/I singles continue this remarkable tradition, best demonstrated in "Sometimes", a song as close to perfection as possible that--along with "Shining Light", "Burn Baby Burn" and "Walking Barefoot" (not actually a single, but one that should have been)--show the maturity in Wheeler's songwriting and musicianship that resurrected his band from the edge of disaster after the fallout from the non-conforming INu-Clear Sounds/I. Token new track "Envy" seems pale in comparison, largely due to the quality of IFree All Angels/I material, but at least the grimy New York gutter riffage of the swaggering "Jesus Says" and summertime exuberance of "Wildsurf" are given the air they need here. Also present is the much-underrated but indispensable "A Life Less Ordinary", finally in a place that it deserves along with some earlier efforts ("Petrol") that perhaps are not. Ash are what teenagers with guitars should sound like, because teenage boys care about girls and getting wasted, not becoming victims of conformity. I--Ben Johncock/I
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 Tonnes of great singles, and from a band so young March 31, 2005
Martin (England)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Although only in their twenties, Northern Ireland's Ash have been around for many years, and have survived hard times as well as revelling in real success, including this collection of singles. Their tracks vary quite a bit, ranging from the intense shouty Numbskull to the pop-tastic Wildsurf, the beautifully poignant Sometimes and the exhuberantly orchestral Candy. Essentially they hinge around power-pop, with airy riffs and optimistic lyrics, mostly about love and lust. Anyone who likes Weezer or Fountains Of Wayne will love this.pMost of the tracks on here are extremely impressive - both Shining Light (a melancholic ballad which can be seen as being about love, God or drugs, depending on interpretation) and Burn Baby Burn (the ultimate in singalong rock) having won Single Of the Year awards (for the same year). Sometimes is my absolute favourite though, the sheer beauty has to be heard to be believed.pThe earlier hits such as Girl From Mars and Oh Yeah have such wistful innocence and joie de vivre that it's hard not to be impressed, especially as the band wrote them while still at school. Although their Nu-Clear Sounds album wasn't as commercially successful, it supplies three great tracks here - Numbskull, Jesus Says and Wildsurf.pThe second disk is superb as well, comprising some of their classic bonus tracks. They've clearly taken a lot of pride in many of these, most would be up to album standard, and several (especially The Sweetness Of Death, Nocturne and 13th Floor) could easily be hts in their own right. The Sweetness of Death is almost certainly the only song ever to make a melody out of the word 'melatonin', which has to be worth something in itself.
The ultimate Ash collection May 11, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Finally #8211; a chance to have Ash#8217;s best all on one CD! As much as I love their music, there is a tendency for Ash albums to contain a couple of dodgy tracks which always result in you pressing the skip button every so often. But a collection of all their best ends all that #8211; there is not a single track on this album deserving of a skip. With a fantastic opening from their more recent #8220;Burn Baby Burn#8221;, through to the heavy #8220;Numbskull#8221;, this singles compilation is proof of Ash#8217;s talent and range of sounds. The classics #8220;Girl from Mars#8221; and #8220;A Life Less Ordinary#8221; (which incidentally doesn#8217;t feature on any other Ash album) both feature, along with a few of their really early tracks like the fantastic #8220;Uncle Pat#8221;, which you may not have heard if you haven#8217;t heard their demo album. This will add to the collection of any fan and also gain them new fans along the way #8211; if you don#8217;t have any of the band#8217;s material, buy this record because it will introduce you to the musical greatness that is ASH!
Anyone who criticises Ash after hearing this album.... September 11, 2002
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
....cannot possibly have any taste in music.p Most of Ash's singles were excellent, energetic perfoamces, and are examples of songwriting at its best - and all 18 of them are included here (with the excellent Walking Barefoot thrown in for good measure). This definitley includes all of Ash's best songs and is a great introduction to the group for those who only know their recent stuff (it includes a great many of their brilliant early material such as Petrol, Goldfinger and Uncle Pat).p But the thing that really surprised me was the B-sides collection which makes up the second disc. A lot of the tracks can be found on the European tour version of Free All Angels, but there are a great many that have not yet been released as an album. The amazing thing about the collection is that many of these B-sides are about 20 times better than anything currently in the UK Top Twenty singles chart. Songs such as No Place to Hide and the ultimate "unrequited love" song Warmer Than Fire, plus the beautiful Nocturne really deserve a wider audience.pAnd that's why you should buy this album even if you've already got all of Ash's other albums (like myself).
This is how a singles compilation should be done. September 12, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been an Ash fan since I heard my friends band playing "Season" in high school. They'd just got the Trailer EP and I think it was around the time that Kung Fu had been released on single (the first song I learned to play on guitar) :DpI've bought every album since Trailer and be happy with what I've heard every time. Intergalactic Sonic 7s is a great compilation of each of Ash's singles from all 4 previous albums. The main selling point for me though was the Cosmic Debris bonus CD. I've only bought the odd Ash single and so I've missed out on some of their B-Side tracks. The bonus CD is packed full of 22 b-sides and rareties from their back catalogue.pThe album is frankly amazing. Well produced, the songs all well written my Tim Wheeler. One thing I also liked was the fact they've used some US versions of the singles on CD1 which makes listening to old songs a new experience.pWell done Ash. This fan is still happy even after 10 years. Keep it up.
A Greatest Hits Album...and They're Still Only 24! September 15, 2002
A. Whitehead (Colchester, Essex United Kingdom)
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
Whilst most of the bands of the mid-90s rock explosion seem to have lost their way in recent years (Oasis, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, Supergrass, the Bluetones, etc), Ash have steadfastly continued their tradition of releasing excellent rock/pop songs. This singles collection brings together all of their singles to date, plus excellent album track Walking Barefoot. As a bonus, at least on this initial release, a 22-song B-side collection is also included, subtitled Cosmic Debris. Not having thought of Ash as a good B-sides band before, the quality of many of these songs comes as a surprise. But the main disc is the focus of attention here and it's quality is remarkable, even for a greatest hits collection. Early efforts Jack Names the Planets, Petrol and Uncle Pat (from their first album, 1994's Trailer), though lacking the polish of later work, all show promise, but it's the four songs from the album 1977 which impress immediately (Goldfinger, Kung Fu, Oh Yeah, Girl From Mars and Angel Interceptor). Girl from Mars may be everyone's favourite Ash singalong number, but Oh Yeah is the one that really hits the spot, being Tim Wheeler's wistful yearning for that 1st love from years ago. A Life Less Ordinary follows up the first album tracks and is good, but not remarkable. Then we have the singles from the massively underrated Nu-Clear Sounds album: the US-influenced rock of Jesus Says, straightforward guitar pop of Wildsurf and hard-edged, thrash-riffed Numbskull. A shame the excellent album tracks Folk Song and I'm Gonna Fall weren't released as singles as well. Then finally the singles from last years excellent Free All Angels album: Shining Light, Burn Baby Burn, Candy, Sometimes and There's a Star. The dull Candy aside, there isn't a duff song among them (and Sometimes, Shining Light and Burn Baby Burn are borderline classics). Finally, there is new song Envy (okay, but a bit Ash-by-numbers). With the exception of Candy (a bit boring) and the primitive Uncle Pat and Jack Names the Planet, every song on here is a bona fide classic, proving that Ash know when and how to release a great single. If you are a fan of British guitar music in general, or like Feeder or Blink-182's non-crap songs, then this is simply for you. Excellent.
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