Customer Reviews
Try to get the collector's edition - By: T. Jinkerson, 21 Sep 2006 
This disc is a great introduction to the music of Catatonia, but the real gems are on disc 2 of the 2 disc collector's edition.
Cattatonia Greatest Hits - By: , 06 Feb 2005 
This is a colaboration off the best works by Cattatonia, Including Mulder & Sculy & Road Rage. This is a good compilation for Cattatonia fans
Exciting Welsh rock band with attitude - By: Peter Durward Harris, 27 Nov 2003 While I generallly prefer rock music from an earlier era, this is mainly because I don't find much to get excited about in the modern era - but there are exceptions, including Catatonia. Their biggest hits were Mulder & Scully & Road rage, though lead singer Cerys Matthews also had hits duetting with Space & Tom Jones. Those hits are included here. The duet with Tom Jones (Baby it's cold outside) is an old chestnut - it's one of the best versions of this song (and I've heard a lot of them).
Cerys was the centrepiece of the band. Great though the musicians were, Cerys was the star, with an ability to sing anything - sounding reallly sexy on a love song, but reallly aggresive on songs that express strong opinions. The band has split up now, but Cerys continues as a solo singer.
Before the band split, they released four albums, of which the middle two (International velvet, Equallly cursed & blessed) were the most successful. Understandably, it is tracks from these two albums that dominate this collection.
This is a fine collection of music by a great band.
Buy the right version - By: , 29 Oct 2003 An excellent collection of Catatonia's ingenious creativity, smoothed by Cerys's caramel voice. But buy the U.S. version double disc instead of the U.K. version - it contains the 15 tracks plus 10 more on the second disc.
Catatonia in 15 songs... - By: , 06 Sep 2002 Fans of Catatonia will need no introduction to the beauty of their music, but to the newcomer, their many balads & rock anthems can seem blurry & unconnected, yet oddly samey.
However, it only takes a couple of listens of this glorius disc to understand what Catatonia are about - deep themes mixed with comedic lyrics, giving the perfect britpop sound.
This is Catatonia's definitve collection of tracks, & loyal fans are rewarded with the second CD of new songs. Leave it on the shop shelf at your peril.
