Greatest Hits

The Cornish are cousins to the Welsh and these guys make me proud to be family!

how can 'graham simons' write a review like that. in fact he is the ignorant one. this album is fantastic, and hilarious, and the lyrics stick with you and you will be singing them over and over in your head. i would give this 6 stars but unfortunately you cant. also, if are from the newport area (like me), you know whaere all the places they talk about are (john frost square, duffryn, st. josephs etc.). A+++

If Enimem came from Wales, he might sound like this. You Knows It. This could've been brilliant. It could've been ok. Instead it's just.... Imagine a bunch of twenty somethings, raised on the A-team, obsessed with The Bill and spliff and Primark, pretending to be chavs, dolled up in faux-chic Working Class burberry, and taking the piss. That's the glc, and youknowsit. But who is the joke on? You? Me? Them? Everybody? I have no idea. What I do know is that "Greatest Hits" isn't that Great, and doesn't have that many hits on it ; consisting of a selection of re-recordings of old songs taken from their first 6, lowkey word-of-mouth albums. The music is dull, anodyne, tired. The lyrics? With a handful of exceptions they aint that good either. Which really really makes me angry, ya clart. Because the genre was begging to be blown open by white boys prepared to rip the living piss out of self-aggrandising braindead morons who big-up themselves and mistake saying something with having Something To Say. "Greatest Hits" is, plain and simple, an open goal missed in chronic proportions. Whilst "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do" is great - and you knows it - the rest of the album draws far short. The lyrical genius of their first few albums (available for sample on their website) is diluted. They're too self-conscious. They're trying too hard. By the time they get to "Half Man, Half Machine" it's increasingly obvious that this one trick pony is getting clapped out : the purile lyrics aren't even amusing, simply excruiating. Listening to faux-chavs pretending to be robots dressed in tinfoil is just ... sad. It's the type of thing I'd do when I was ten, not when I was twenty-one and on my debut CD. And any band that has a song called "Your Mother's Got A Penis"... well. That makes The Bloodhound Gang look like Sylvia Plath. You knows it. It's such a cliché to say that their earlier stuff was better, but it was. "Greatest Hits" is a good album. If you haven't heard the earlier stuff, no doubt this'll sound fantastic. It's the complete antidote to The Streets. The world needed a record that was a good hard kick in the nuts of every braindead, streethanging, what-you-looking-at-carnt? Chav scum in a backwards baseball cap and white trackies that hangs around outside your local off-licence. But they'll probably think that this lot aren't talking the mick, but you know, living it, keeping it real, hardcore. You knows it. Pass me some draw, clart. The bottom line is that Greatest Hits is a novelty album. The lyrics (at least, some of them) can be funny and a bitter insight into the bargain-basement of hopeless towns nationwide. The music though is neglible and dull.After all, the last band to call their debut Greatest hits was Sheep on Drugs, and we all know where they are now. You want fries with that? The joke isn't funny anymore, and that's a tragedy, because these guys are going to be huge, and they better put their money where their mouth is and deliver the goods, or else they'll be back in The DSS faster than you can say "Novely Welsh Chav Rap". You knows it. Don't believe the hype.

Check out the hidden track - tip - rewind from start of track 1 if you bothered to buy the CD, then go on holiday and get the DSS to pay!

The GLC inspire much opprobrium for supposedly sending up hip hop culture, yet one listen to this album shows that they are technically competent and can walk the walk, even if it is across a Newport council estate. The lyrics are hilarious and have often caused me to nearly crash my bicycle listening to the pathetic attempts at spelling S-U-I-C-I-D-E or another line about the late Michael Hutchence. Ultimately the GLC are an experiment in society holding a mirror to itself. We choose to laugh at their behaviour, but the laugh is tempered by the knowledge that so many people choose to behave in this way for real - thinking life is nothing but one long party funded by the state. It would not surprise me if the boys behind the GLC all went to RADA and spoke with an RP accent, given the quality of their writing. Let's hope the new album is as good.

I know people mostly talk about the comedy in the glc's music but I have to say there are some pretty solid raps on here. It's so British (or more accurately, Welsh!) that you can't help but love it, as most British hip-hop or rap is just trying to be American.Even though the lyrics are funny, they do simply relate to normal life rather than 'gangsta' culture or pimp-rides which is the usual. The singles 'Guns Don't Kill People...', 'Roller Disco' (brilliant), 'You Knows I Loves You' and -ahem- 'Your Mother's Got A P***s' (what did I say about relating to normal life!) fairly represent the album but there's a whole lot more on offer, the sensational 'Soap Bar' probably being the highlight. Sadly it's lyrical content makes it unreleaseable as a single...You knows you wants a copy of this! So get down to your local Aaargos, Elizabeth Duke, get blinged up with your own gold chain and get down with the glc, clart! Safe as f**k!

I'll keep this short.You'll be laughing all the way, there are some classics in here, and you'll find yourself singing the lines as your walking or whatever, you'll get a laugh from all the songs, but some are just pure gold!This is a great comedy album

Although GLC's talent is actually questionable, what is unquestionable, is that they can produce one hell of a funny album. I have never truely laughed out loud to an album before. Until I heard this. It was quite embarrasing, I was sitting in the car with my mum and sis with my headphones on and I suddenly burst out laughing. It really is funnier than some movies. There is no point sayin much more. Get it!

It's funny seeing people getting so wound up, about whether it's a "parody of hip-hop" or whatever. I think people dissect music too much at times and lose track of the one thing that's most important - is it actually good or not?For me, it's more than good. It's fun, it's funny and it's totally funky. For those who think it's a comedy album, it could be seen as such, but only in the same way that an album like De La Souls's "3 Feet High and Rising" could. "Greatest Hits", in my opinion, is one of the most original albums in a long time, and one that any British 30-something person with memories of Grange Hill, D-Train etc, will enjoy, as well as those with an interest in sample-based music (2 Many Djs/Avalanches etc).

It's funny seeing people getting so wound up, about whether it's a "parody of hip-hop" or whatever. I think people dissect music too much at times and lose track of the one thing that's most important - is it actually good or not?For me, it's more than good. It's fun, it's funny and it's totally funky. For those who think it's a comedy album, it could be seen as such, but only in the same way that an album like De La Souls's "3 Feet High and Rising" could. "Greatest Hits", in my opinion, is one of the most original albums in a long time, and one that any British 30-something person with memories of Grange Hill, D-Train etc, will enjoy, as well as those with an interest in sample-based music (2 Many Djs/Avalanches etc).