All Saints - All Hits [2001]

ALL SAINTS - ALL HITS, album released 2001.

All Hits is a collection of singles from All Saints which have all reached the top ten, five of which were UK number ones. Includes the Artful Dodger & Melanie Blatt collaboration Twentyfourseven and Big Wheels, the debut solo singlefrom Shaznay Lewis.

In light of the un-harmonious five years Melanie, Shaznay, Nicole and Natalie spent together as All Saints, perhaps this anthology should have been titled All Fights instead of the more agreeable All Hits. Despite having two massive hit singles in 2000 [with Pure Shores and Black Coffee], and the release of their second album [Saints and Sinners], the girls' rows were viewed more newsworthy than their continued chart success. From early tunes such as I Know Where It's At, right through to their appropriately titled final release All Hooked Up the quartet produced some of the catchiest hooks in pop. on both their studio albums, they recruited the hippest producers of the time, including Nellee Hooper, Cameron McVey and William Orbit. These top bods merged the girls' soulful vocals with the trendiest beats, producing classics such as War of Nerves and Bootie Call. The best of these albums and more are included on All Hits. Also included is Mel's solo collaboration with Artful Dodger [Twentyfourseven] and two powerful new tracks penned and performed by Shaznay, which are sneakily hidden at the end of a bonus remix of Pure Shores. I Feel You is an epic five minuter, sounding similar to Saints's classic Never Ever but with the other three's harmonies being replaced by a gospel choir. The second Shaz track Dreams is an Orbit style pop-trip composition that strangely [or perhaps predictably] echoes Pure Shores.

Tracks:
01 Pure Shores
02 Never Ever
03 Under the Bridge
04 Lady Marmalade [98 Remix]
05 I Know Where It's At
06 Twentyfourseven [Artful Dodger feat. Melanie Blatt]
07 Black Coffee
08 Bootie Call [Single Version]
09 All Hooked Up [Single Version]
10 War of Nerves [98 Remix]
11 Pure Shores [2 Da Beach U Don't Stop Remix]

Hidden Tracks:
12 I Feel You
13 Dreams

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All Saints - Never Ever [1998]
All Saints - Pure Shores [2000]

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All Saints - Studio 1 [2006]

ALL SAINTS - STUDIO 1, album to be released UK November 13th 2006.

On hearing All Saints tremendous comeback single Rock Steady, Cheryl Tweedy of Girls Aloud sniped that it was influenced by the Girls [whose own sound, she failed to add, owed much to the Saints]. Saint Mel Blatt's dry retort - "We could only aspire to be like Girls Aloud" - proved that the reunited 1990s foursome are taking up where they left off six years ago. Studio 1 offers a fresh take on their girl-group style. Always R&B-inclined, their harmonies are now judiciously seasoned with reggae and ska. Their differences apparently behind them, Blatt, Shaznay Lewis and the Appleton sisters sigh and yearn as one, mostly to delightful effect. The 2Tone-ish Scar overflows with sweetness, but there's sizzling suspicion on the dancehall-pop Hell No, and indignation on the wayward reggae of Too Nasty. These thirty-something mums still got it going on.

Tracks:
01 Rock Steady
02 Chick Fit
03 On And On
04 Scar
05 Not Eazy
06 Hell No
07 One Me And U
08 Headlock
09 Too Nasty
10 In It To Win It
11 Flashback
12 Fundamental

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All Saints - Rock Steady [2006]

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