Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sit Down - James
2. Common People - Pulp
3. Brimful Of Asha Remix - Cornershop
4. Road Rage - Catatonia
5. The Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Colour Scene
6. Lovefool - Cardigans
7. Wake Up Boo - Boo Radleys
8. Space Cowboy - Jamiroquai
9. Give Me A Little More Time - Gabrielle
10. Summer Time - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
11. Good Enough - Dodgy
12. Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out - Freakpower
13. Connected - Stereo MCs
14. Say What You Want - Texas
15. Ordinary World - Duran Duran
16. What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
17. Kiss Me - Sixpence Non The Richer
18. Groove Is In The Heart - Dee-Lite
19. S Club Party - S Club 7
20. Tragedy - Steps

Disc 2:

1. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
2. Praying For Time - George Michael
3. Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
4. Tears On My Pillow - Kylie Minogue
5. Stay - Shakespeare's Sister
6. You Do Something To Me - Paul Weller
7. Never Ever - All Saints
8. Baby Can I Hold You - Boyzone
9. What Can I Do - The Corrs
10. End Of The Road - Boyz II Men
11. Unbreak My Heart - Toni Braxton
12. Ocean Drive - Lighthouse Family
13. I'll Be Loving You Forever - New Kids On The Block
14. Show Me Heaven - Maria McKee
15. Hold On - Wilson Phillips
16. I Swear - All 4 One
17. Stay Another Day - East 17
18. You Might Need Somebody - Shola Ama
19. Anything - 3T
20. As Long As You Love Me - Backstreet Boys

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41611 in Music
• Released on: 2003-08-04
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .24 pounds
• Running time: 163 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
With the 80s back catalogue a bare-bone carcass having been plundered beyond recognition by brands such as School Disco and Friends Reunited, the time has come to move onto the next sequential decade: the 90s. Friends Reunited: The 90s is a double CD from the age that brought us Blur, Oasis, Take That and the Spice Girls--not that any of them are featured here.

Disc one is party anthems and sing-along favourites such as "the sound of the student union", "Sit Down" by James, "Common People" by Pulp and the sugar-sweet "Love Fool" by The Cardigans. Disc two includes the decade's big ballads with monster hits from Sinead O'Connor ("Nothing Compares 2 U"), Wet Wet Wet ("Love is All Around"), Shakespear's Sister ("Stay"), All Saints ("Never Ever") and last but not least, East 17 and their not-so-tough Christmas hit "Stay Now". As a retrospective of an era, Friends Reunited: The 90s is not that bad, but not that good either. --Georgina Collins

Customer Reviews

Friends Reunited 90's
This is the second Friends Reunited CD, trying to cash in on the success of the first one. The question is, is this album anywhere near as good as the first one?

If I'm honest - no it isn't. Just as Duran Duran, Tears for Fears and various others shaped 1980s music, the presence of Take That shaped the early to mid 1990's so far as 90's pop was concerned. The thing is, Duran Duran and Tears for Fears feature on FriendsReunited's 80's album - Take That don't feature on this one. The Spice Girls as well, took the charts by storm in 1996 but they don't feature on here either.

Other artists on this album include Gabrielle, Jazzy Jeff, Texas, New Kids On The Block, East 17 and, for some reason, S Club 7. But just as the 80s album from the same people leaned towards the mid to early 1980s, this album tends to lean towards the mid to late 1990's. Steps, for example. Jamiroquai. Backstreet Boys. Lighthouse family. All bands from after 1995.

There are only a handful of tunes from before 1994 - a quick run-down reveals a total of just 11 out of 40. Add to this two turkeys - Toni Braxton's slow, boring version of Unbreak My Heart - the faster radio version I've yet to see on any compilation CD eight years after I first heard it. The other turkey is Jazzy Jeff - his first hit (Boom Shake The Room) was much more memorable than Summertime IMO.

Gems on this: What's Up by the 4 Non Blondes. This song has had the "Ain't Nobody" treatment done to it over the years - that is to say, it's been covered goodness knows how many times by goodness knows how many artists over the years. The 4 Non Blondes version is my favourite interpretation of the song, and I was pleased to find it on this CD, a hidden bonus.

Other highlights include Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet - this song, in the summer of 1994, threatened to smash Bryan Adams' record for the longest number of weeks at number one in the charts. That lasted 16 weeks, this one lasted 15. So it must have been good. Also look out for the Lighthouse Family, All 4 One and Dee-Lite, as well as the legendary classic Sinead O'Connor song, Nothing Compares 2 U.

Four stars for this, two reasons: 1) ring-tones adverts on the inlay (tones that I can't use on my phone anyway) and 2) Album tendency to lean towards mid to late 90's, which renders it pretty much identical to one of the Now That's What I Call Music albums from the late 1990's.

friends reunited 90s
Good mix of tunes, but where are the cheesy Take That tracks which defined the early 90s for most of us then fans? OK so some of their tunes are pure cheese, but so was this time of our lives!

Great album - takes me back
"This is a great compilation - really takes me back to the era! There's a good cross section of tracks, shame there's no Oasis but maybe on the next one!"