Name: Sweet Ride: The Best of Belly
Brand: Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corp
SKU: 357192
Price: 28.12 AUD
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Sweet Ride: The Best of Belly

By Belly (Recorded By)

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Format

CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Release Date

1 June 2002

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EAN

0081227824624

Writer

Belly (Recorded By)

Producer

Gil Norton, Glyn Johns, Lou Giordano, Paul Q. Kolderie, Sean Slade, Belly

Country

USA

Studio/Live

Studio

Guest Artist

Juliana Hatfield

Label

Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corp

Dimensions

12.9 x 14.9 x 1 centimetres (0.08 kg)

Performer Notes

Belly: Tanya Donelly (vocals, guitar); Tom Gorman (guitar, background vocals); Gail Greenwood (bass, background vocals); Fred Abong (bass); Chris Gorman (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Juliana Hatfield (vocals); Dylan Ror, Leslie Langston (bass).
Producers includes: Belly, Gil Norton, Glyn Johns, Paul Q. Kolderie, Lou Giordano.
Recorded between 1992 & 1996. Includes liner notes by Brantley Bardin.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Personnel: Tom Gorman, Tanya Donelly (vocals, guitar); Gail Greenwood, Juliana Hatfield (vocals); Chris Gorman (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixers: Glyn Johns; Jack Joseph Puig; Paul Q. Kolderie.
Audio Remasterers: Daniel Hersch; Bill Inglot.
Audio Remixers: Howard Gray; Tom Lord-Alge.
Photographers: Dominic Davies; Chris Gorman .
Belly arrived at a strange time for alternative rock. Prior to the early 1993 release of their debut, Star, they had released a series of critically acclaimed U.K. EPs that balanced the shimmering, otherworldly quality of Throwing Muses with an increased sense of songcraft from ex-Muse/Breeder Tanya Donelly -- dream pop that really emphasized the pop, while adding emotional undercurrents that could shift from sweetness to haunting within one song. Star, like the EPs, captured this well, and since it arrived when all things alt-rock had a shot at the charts, they actually had a gold album and a Billboard hit with "Feed the Tree." This led to semistardom -- not nearly as big as Kurt-n-Courtney or Eddie, nor as gossip-worthy as Evan-n-Juliana, but to a lot of appearances at festivals and even the cover of Rolling Stone, which meant that they wanted to broaden their audience and sound with their second album, the Glyn Johns-produced King. Though the selected songs were good, the big, glossy production didn't quite fit, but it came to define Belly -- deliberately, too, since they began to remix their British hits for MTV and modern rock radio. Rhino's 2002 collection Sweet Ride: The Best of Belly collects all of the singles, but not necessarily in their original form. Included are "Gepetto" in the remix version (which was, admittedly, U.S. single version); the live version of "Dusted"; a U.S.-radio mix of "Feed the Tree." There are a couple of key album tracks, and a whole lotta B-sides: a wonderful, slyly sexy version of "Trust in Me" from Disney's The Jungle Book, a cover of "Hot Burrito #1," and, of course, the tremendous title track. There's also some collector-bait ephemera here, okay King B-sides, a French version of a song from King, and a cover of "Are You Experienced?" ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

NME (Magazine) (7/27/02, p.32) - 6 out of 10 - "...They now sound like the missing link between the Pixies and, oddly, Starsailor..."

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