Monday, March 22, 2004
It's OK
We're giving you advance warning on this one, it's not out until April 5th, but forewarned is forearmed and all that. The shock of seeing this in the stroes unexpectedly might well cause a wave of disbelief to wash over you that is so strong you begin to doubt the reality in which you live, because, yes, this is the incredibly poorly designed cover to the slightly optimistic release of Atomic Kitten's Greatest Hits. Note that for legal reasons it's not called "The Best Of", though we feel that even it's current title is pushing things somewhat and "Singles Collection" might have been a better way of staying on the the right side of the trades description act. We also feel that they might well increase sales if they played down the fact that it includes the singles "Eternal Flame" and "Tide is High", unless they're banking on people thinking that they contain the original hits, rather than the diluted with urine versions that appear on here.
We don't exactly see this album being a best-seller, mainly because if you want to pick up the best of Atomic Kitten you'd be better off buying either their debut album or just getting a copy of the I Want Your Love single, both of which are much better and actually have photos of the girls looking attractive on the front cover. The ones on this inessential release simply scream out "I'm holding this smile for five more seconds only and then you'd better give me my bloody money.". As we've said before, they were better when Kerry was in the band. Strange as it may seem, she really did seem to be the brains of the operation. Still, the Witches of Panstick are pretty much gone now, and they'll never trouble our nightmares again with their mid-tempo balladary and increasingly desperate attempts to appear sexy yet stylish. Not unless they decide to curse us with 3 solo careers. Noooo! The horror! The unspeakable horror!
