Track Listing

1. Fade Away - Oasis (2)
2. Oh Brother - Boo Radleys
3. Love Spreads - Stone Roses
4. Lucky - Radiohead
5. Adnans - Orbital
6. Mourning Air (War Child) - Portishead
7. Fake The Aroma - Massive Attack
8. Shipbuilding - Suede
9. Time For Loving - Charlatans & The Chemical Brothers
10. Sweetest Truth - Stereo MC's
11. Ode To Billy Joe - O'Connor, Sinead
12. Search Light - Levellers
13. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - Manic Street Preachers
14. Tom Petty Loves Veruca Salt - Terrorvision
15. Magnificent - One World Orchestra
16. Message To Crommie - Planet 4 Folk Quartet
17. Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Hall, Terry & Salad
18. 12345 - Cherry, Neneh & Trout
19. Eine Kleine Lift Muzik - Blur
20. Come Together - Smokin' Mojo Filters

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44445 in Music
• Released on: 1995-10-12
• Number of discs: 1

Manufacturer's Description
Oasis & Freinds, Radiohead, Portisjhead, Sinead O'connor, Blur, Come Togerther By Smokin' Mojo Filters (Paul Weller, Paul McCartney & Noel Gallagher)

Customer Reviews

A collector's item!
There was much excitement surrounding this release, a benefit for war victims in Bosnia, as the best of Britain and elsewhere were asked to contribute a new recording, cut on the same day in recording studios throughout Europe.

Aside from the lazy Stone Roses, whose "Love Spreads" is barely more than a tape-recorded jam that does the song a disservice, the artists came up trumps. Highlights include Portishead, Blur, Radiohead and a wonderful return to form for Stereo MCs.

However, top of the pile, and worth the purchase price alone, is Sinead O Connor's version of Bobby Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe". It is majestic.

Other notable cover versions are Suede's haunting "Shipbuilding", and Manic Street Preachers' "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head". They do it, and they do it with style.

Unsurprisingly voted Best Compilation by most music magazines in its year of release, this album is a must for fans of Brit Pop (the album also features Oasis, Boo Radleys and the dub-laden Massive Attack) and Beatles completists (Paul McCartney plays bass on Paul Weller's version of "Come Together").

Incidentally, the first-week British release of the recording was made all the more exciting as due to the hurried nature of the project, track listings could not be printed in time, so early purchasers had to guess who was playing what. Ah, those were the days.....

Brings back good memorys
I bought this CD originally back in '95....out of curiousity. I was blown away by the tunes on it. Its really good backgound music for a partying I reckon.

Like a plonker I lent it to someone who promptly lost it...denied it existed in fact...so with fond memorys in mind I searched here on Amazon and came up trumps:)

Ah the good times! I was doing a trade apprenticeship...and generally enjoying life then...funny how Music brings back those times.

I wont be lending this CD again!!!!! :-)

snapshot of indie britpop at its height
At the time of the release of this album, I was heavily into "indie" or "Britpop", which were almost synonymous with each other when it came to British bands. I was young at the time, and don't get me wrong, I'm not embarassed about it, let's just say it was a phase that I've now left behind.

This is however a great snapshot view of the bands and music in contemporary British rock and pop, that were around at the time. It's difficult for me to give an objective view as nostalgia does somewhat blur the eyes, but I think I can be reasonably objective in saying that some of the music was great and some not so.

There are a number of bands doing cover versions of well-known songs, which I've always found intriguing as it gives an idea of their perspectives and sometimes demonstrates something new, but sometimes just highlights the band as a one-trick-pony. Also there are some interesting results from the collaboration between different artists on the scene at the time.


This is certainly a good album, worth a listen and maybe even several if you can get hold of it. Although I'm not particularly one for high production values, this album does prove to me that you notice it when it's not there, which is the case for a number of tracks. It's easy to date it to the mid-nineties on a raw listen, but that is part of the attraction. Like a photo album, this is an album of songs that documents a particular stage in the progression of British music and the history of many bands who contributed to it, some of whom have gone on to become stalwarts of the music scene.