Track Listing

1. I Like It
2. Sometimes
3. Shelter
4. You Are The Universe
5. Crying Water
6. Day By Day
7. Feels Like Right
8. Highest High
9. Stay Gone
10. You've Got A Friend
11. Once Is Twice Enough
12. After Forever
13. Last To Know

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29133 in Music
• Released on: 1999-10-04
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

A must in CD collections!
I own six cds of the Brand New Heavies and I think this is the best cd of their's so far. Their acid jazz style is very smooth and mellow. You will not believe how fast time seems to pass when listning to it. I actually got introduced to acid jazz by listning to BNH back in 97. The cd contains wonderful tunes with their usual style of funk, R&B and jazzy bass lines and drumming. As a bassist, I think their percussions and rythms are quite divine. The album includes the hits "Sometimes" and "You Are The Universe". If you are planning to buy one cd of the BNH to check them out, I recommend this cd as it will surely capture your musical ear!

Let me hear you say "Yeah! I like it."
With a nod to Jamiroquai on the sleeve and an opening groove in which Siedah promises "Me and the boys are jammin', hope you don't mind if we funk you up", it's forgiveable to expect an album on the one. Instead, the 'Heavytones' steer clear of the gratuitous funk that would have been commercial suicide in 1997 (notice brass arrangements Fred Wesley would have been proud of on 'I like it' and 'You can do it' allowing too much concession to strings to take it to the stage), and cruise right on into feel-good-pop-central with 'Sometimes' and 'You are the Universe'. Respectfully side-stepping the challenging lyric, and broken only by dependable vocal cameos from Jan Kincaid to match his dependable drumming, Siedah Garret fronts the accomplished and playful band with a voice amassing the power of Marlena Shaw and the grace of Skye Edwards. Andrew Levy's disappointingly confined bass escapes occasionally ('Once is twice enough' being a Sly jam), while Simon Bartholomew provides a timely late 90s reminder that the guitar can be a delicately versatile tool, percussive and fluid as required, and there is an air of confidence unfamiliar to the Monday morning commuter permeating the entirity of what is essentially a great pop album. A mine of potential, if not exactly the realisation of it, yeah, I like it.

Excellent and timeless!!
I have owned this album ever since it first came out and it's still as great as it was back then! It's really great to chill out to or to have playing on a long drive.