Product Description

All Saints manages to distill their pop, hip-hop and soul influences into a kinder, gentler blend without giving up thegroove. The rap segments are disarming, not alarming and the sex has it's place but it's not in your face. Velvety vocal harmonies float over sparse, gritty instrumentals furnished with traditional hip-hop scratch and sample underpinnings.
This album has a varied range of feelings and rythyms, with a good balance of ballads and up tunes. It goes from flirtatious to soul-searching, mischievous to mellow, but always party-perfect. Their British chart topper "I Know Where It's At" is a frisky and infectious dance tune, contrasting their follow-up hit "Never Ever", a heartfelt girl group anthem. All in all, ALL SAINTS is a pleasant invitation into a girl's heart; fun but not frivolous; sincere but not somber; innocent but not ignorant. You go, girls!

Track Listing

1. Never Ever
2. Bootie Call
3. I Know Where It's At
4. Under The Bridge
5. Heaven
6. Alone
7. If You Want To Party (I Found Lovin')
8. Trapped
9. Beg
10. Lady Marmalade
11. Take The Key
12. War Of Nerves
13. Never Ever (2)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33062 in Music
• Released on: 1999-10-04
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.com
The thinking person's Spice Girls? Well, sort of. This eye-catching quartet bears a surface similarity to their British homegirls, but upon closer inspection, the differences start to reveal themselves. The dance floors that spawned All Saints were decidedly less pristine, definitely more prone to being funk-filled, as evidenced by torrid tunes like "I Know Where It's At" and a cover of Labelle's lusty classic "Lady Marmalade." Not that parental guidance is necessary for a trip past the disc's velvet rope. All Saints never stoop to tawdry antics. Rather, they exude the kind of spirited self-confidence--echoed in the tough hip-hop-tinged backing tracks--that gives feeling good a good name. --David Sprague END

Customer Reviews

very soul
What a pity on some of the reviews I have read here. I don't know about they refuse toi hear All Saints, or attacking them because of the rivality with the SPICE GIRLS. They did completely different types of music. I love the SPICE but they did POP MUSIC. All Saints are great too, but it's a different style.

This is a very good album. "Never ever" has become for me in ONE of favourite soul songs ever! "War of nerves" or "Under the bridge" show they have a soul touch. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Buy it! I miss them.

All saints, all sass, all class
SPICE GIRLS RULE!! There...thats it. Now I'm going to discuss ALL SAINTS. Their debut, "All Saints" is a little piece of heaven as far as pop albums go. All killer, no filler. Each track oozes attitude. The now legendry pop classic "Never Ever" is the highlight, along with the seriously cool "Bootie Call", the sassy downtempo "Under The Bridge" and the heartfelt ballad "War Of Nerves"- so basically the singles. But the other tracks are good too. "Trapped", "Take The Key" and "Heaven" are downtempo urban slices of perfection which follow a similar direction as "Never Ever". "If You Want To Party", "Lady Marmalade" and "I Know Where Its At" are party pop perfection. "Beg" is something else- its funky, its catchy, its fun and energetic.

A fine debut.

Red Hot All Saints
A concept album which follows the story of 4 young heroines who battle their urge to shoot up under a bridge.....no.