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High Times: Singles 1992-2006 | 
| Artist: Jamiroquai
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1874
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 701996
UPC: 886970199629
EAN: 0886970199629
ASIN: B000INAXGU
Release Date: November 6, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | When You Gonna Learn | | • | Too Young To Die | | • | Blow Your Mind | | • | Emergency On Planet Earth | | • | Space Cowboy | | • | Virtual Insanity | | • | Cosmic Girl | | • | Alright | | • | High Times | | • | Deeper Underground | | • | Canned Heat | | • | Little L | | • | Love Foolosophy | | • | Corner Of The Earth | | • | Feels Just Like It Should | | • | Seven Days In Sunny June | | • | Don't Give Hate A Chance | | • | Runaway | | • | Radio |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
With a voice like Stevie Wonder, a production sound that recalls the string-laden, slinky-bass disco of Studio 54 and a penchant for funky dance moves and outlandish hats, Jamiroquai's Jay Kay has successfully managed to straddle the underground and mainstream for the best part of 15 years. High Times brings together 19 of his band's hits to date, ranging from early 90s acid jazz classics "When You Gonna Learn", "Too Young To Die" and "Blow Your Mind", to later successes such as "Canned Heat", "Cosmic Girl", "Virtual Insanity" and on to recent songs from 2005 album Dynamite, such as "Feels Just Like It Should" and "7 Days In Sunny June". There are also two new tracks - the current single "Runaway" and the edgier "Radio", both of which continue the Jamiroquai tradition of mildly euphoric dancefloor disco-soul. Despite sticking to a formula of sorts over the years, the songs on this collection compliment each other well and form an impressive overview of one of the UK's most distinctive bands.--Danny McKenna
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 A time capsule July 4, 2008
It is clear that jamiroquai are something of an unusual band. I remember seeing them for the first time on TV in around 1993, (I think it was the show, The Word) performing Too Young To Die, and immediately clocked the retro 70's jazz funk style and as i was and still am a fan of such music, immediately became a fan and went out and bought the single.
The fender rhodes keys, the Stevie Wonder-esque voice, the funky bass and horns,and the sci-fi imagery and lyrics, all came to make a great sound and package, and whats more the first proper British jazz funk since Light of The World, and a great antidote to the Brit pop or electronicky stuff around.
Their first album was a constant visitor to my Cd player.
What was more surprising that they became so popular, as they were so unusual.
OK, the Acid Jazz movement was in full swing, but they transcended that and outlasted it.
This Cd shows the development of the band and their sound, from the early raw jazz funk tracks through the disco-funk of A Funk Odyssey to the later stuff, it is clear that the sound has changed over that time, yet still sounds like Jamiroquai.
What is also clear is that the earlier stuff is far superior to their latest offerings.
They produced five top notch albums all with a clear progression of style, and then their last one; and that was a huge disappointment. The edginess had gone from the music, to be replaced by a bland self satisfied sound playing lip service to their earlier work, trapped in some kind of disco-pap hell.
One of the aspects of Jamiroquai's music that made it so different; the wonderful didgeridoo inspired instrumentals had disappeared a while ago, and their loss was keenly felt.
The stuff from Dynamite all sounds a bit samey, as do the new offerings here.
The tracks here are presented in chronological order so you can see what i mean when you listen.
Great band, but they've gone off the boil as this collection demonstrates.
I hope when they return, they do something fresh. perhaps a return to more jazz funk material as this works well for them. No more disco!
 Cosmic! December 8, 2007
Jay Kay is undoubtably one of our finest songwriter/recording artists. Everybody has heard at least two or three of his songs over the last 15 years, yes 15 years! The beauty of this man is his longevity to produce songs of the same sound but somewhat different in their own way. As far as I'm concerned this man is one of our most prolific artists. His uncanny knack of recording catchy, soulful, from the heart tunes should put him way up their with the rest. If you want to boogie at home in the car or at a party stick this one on. Not all of the tracks will please you but trust me you won't be disapointed.
Music should be like this June 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
High Times: Singles 1992-2006 by ~ Jamiroquai is an album which deserve the highest praise for delivering quality music. Music should be like this, as it tuneful, sheer class and most of all quality, not all this manufactured rubbish which the music industry is bombarded with today. The album features some memorable funky and dance music closely associated with the 90's. The album features 19 singles, which are great joy and pleasure to listen to. Some of big and memorable hits featured in this album include Too young to die, Blow your mind, Emergency on planet earth, Space Cowboy, Virutal Insanity, Cosmic Girl and so on. Listening to the singles sure relightens your mood and makes you feel good. It is feel good music.
High Times: Singles 1992-2006 by ~ Jamiroquai is what real music should entail. This album certainly satisfies my musical taste. If you love dance and funky music, you will certainly like this album. It is a great album, well worth purchasing for the quality it brings.
Incomplete!!! March 1, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
While I love Jamiroquai, this album isn't a true reflection of their work. Only one track from their best album? and it isn't even the album version. I am ofcourse talking about The Return of the Space Cowboy which contained such classics as Stillness in Time and The Kids. The Kids wasn't released as a single which would explain its omission but it's a stonking track but I can't explain why anyone would leave Stillness in Time out! The second album is true funk and not rehashed disco, it's a rich tapestry of sounds and you'll notice something different every time you listen to it. Rant over. Having said this an album containing Virtual Insanity, Alright, and the new classic Runaway can't be all bad. Just think there could have been a second cd containing The Kids and that instrumental version of Hooked up.
A Joy February 1, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
First things first; it is an absolute pleasure to see a chronological hits compliation. This is how they should be done. Ok it does miss of some of the hits (including two of my favourites in Half The Man and King For A Day AND a top 10 hit Stillness In Time) but then good old Jay Kay has had 23 top 40 hits in the UK alone so you can let him off.
And it is a "him". They might be a band in name, but it's always been Jay Kay and a revolving door of bandmates. And that is perhaps symptomatic of the problems with this collection. Everything since the superb Emergency On Planet Earth album has been, well, much of a muchness as if Kay has but the two ideas; fast songs that sound a little like Stevie Wonder...and slow songs that sound a little like Stevie Wonder.
What's here from the debut is still classic today, even if all lyrically concern the same eco-warrior themes. It all went "wrong" though from the Return Of The Space Cowboy album, if an artist with 6 top 3 studio albums can be said to have gone wrong. Sure he could usually be relied on to come up with at least one great single per album (at least in the early days with tracks such as Virtual Insanity and Canned Heat) but everything sounded, well, the same.
Indeed by 2001's A Funk Odyssey the Jamiroquai vessel was definately on auto-pilot and not even a gap of 3 years to 2005's Dynamite could revitalise the music. Still, on the first two thirds of this collection at least, there is much to enjoy in a disco-style fashion. I mean seriously, if you can't have a boogie to the best of the tunes you've probably never been on a dance-floor in your life.
As for the new tracks, Runaway sounds exactly as you would expect a Jamiroquai song to sound like but at least it's better than Radio, which might well be the worst song on the collection and reeks of fullfilling contractual obligations. Who knows, with this contract finishing best of in the bag, and talks of taking a year off, maybe Jay Kay will soon be in a position to really kick of his shoes when the time comes around for his next new album.
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