Product Description

'Pass In Time' is a collection of songs taken from Beth Orton's three previous albums. Most noted for her subtle vocalsreminiscent of 70's singer/songwriters such as Carole King and Carly Simon. Her music is a fusion of graceful acoustic folk, melancholoy country-blues, down-tempo trip hop and dubby electronica. Includes the singles 'She Cries Your Name', 'Someone's Daughter' and 'Touch Me With Your Love' , alongside B-sides, remixes, collaborations, and rarities.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. She Cries Your Name
2. Someone's Daughter
3. Touch Me With Your Love
4. Sugar Boy
5. Galaxy of Emptiness
6. I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine
7. Best Bit
8. The Same Day
9. Stolen Car
10. Sweetest Decline
11. Pass In Time
12. Central Reservation
13. Concrete Sky
14. Thinking About Tomorrow

Disc 2:

1. Central Reservation (Spiritual Life - Ibadan Remix)
2. Where Do I Begin feat The Chemical Brothers
3. Stars All Seem To Weep
4. Safety
5. Pedestal
6. Dolphins feat Terry Callier
7. It's Not The Spotlight
8. Don't Wanna Know 'bout Evil
9. Where Do You Go
10. Water From A Vine Leaf feat William Orbit

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37039 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-22
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
Pass in Time: the Definitive Collection is bound to do well because, frankly, people like Beth Orton. It's as simple as that. While she hasn't exactly set the world on fire since first coming to our attention as one half of Spill alongside William Orbit, she's always boasted a most reliable voice that, while neither particularly unique nor entrancing, can sell a song most efficaciously.

Similarly, while it is highly unlikely that Beth is anybody's absolute favourite artist of all time, her appeal is exceptionally broad. When the Chemical Brothers need a surrogate female larynx for their populist electronica they invariably call on Beth; she's a stalwart of Radio 2, a less spiky and consequently more palatable Sinead O'Connor and during indie rock's 1996 heyday, NME's typically Britpop-hugging critics embraced Orton's career-encapsulating "She Cries Your Name" iron horse as their single of the week.

Pass in Time, meanwhile, throws out no less than 24 reasons why we like Beth Orton. Here are feather-light emotions, mellifluous, casually delivered vocal gymnastics, heartstring-stroking coffee-table melancholia, solo highlights and collaborations with the aforementioned Chemicals, William Orbit and Terry Callier. It's a solid, engaging anthology. It's unlikely to steal your heart and soul but you'll like it a heck of a lot. --Ian Fortnam

Customer Reviews

Worth every penny!
I bought this album having heard - and liked - a remix of one of Beth Orton's songs (She Cries your name) and it has not disappointed. The first cd includes her more well known songs and introduces you to her haunting and captivatingly plaintive style.

The second cd in the set includes remixes and collaborations with other artists including Terry Callier and The Chemical Brothers and shows how her voice and songs lend themselves to really exciting production and a very wide range of styles.

If you are new to Beth Orton then this is a great introduction. Existing fans will also enjoy the diversity this album offers and I for one have not been disappointed!

fantastic stuff
Had never come across Beth Orton until I heard the soundtrack of Monster. I wish I had listened to her earlier as she is fabulous. One of the best Cd's I have bought recently can't fault it.

A wonderful album
In response to emryall above - three albums is the typical marker to release a "best of", it's pretty much a standard thing all across the industry. The fact she's also worked on half a dozen other albums too, of which some tracks are included, makes this a great purchase. Don't forget, too, that it includes a couple of tracks from her very first album, which was never released in the UK.

Beth sings with passion in every track. I remember the Trailer Park cd having the labels name across it - "heavenly". I think they should have this on ALL her releases!