| Greatest Hits | - The Manifesto
- Self Suicide
- Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do
- Half Man Half Machine
- Roller Disco
- Soap Bar
- Billy Webb's Lament
- Your Mother's Got A Penis
- The Maggot
- You Knows I Loves You
- Leeroy Fashion Lament
- 21 Ounces
- Time To Make A Change
- Out on Atlantic
- Rating: 8/10
- Reviewer: Chris Long
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Appearances can be desceptive though, and, in fairness, theirs is a damn good trick. Where The Darkness have dreams of stadiums and the utter pomposity of all things rock, Goldie Lookin Chain’s ambitions are probably already realized. They’ve been given free booze, the chance to be paid to mess about on stage with Super Furry Animals and release an album which is about a hundred times better than it should be. The secret of their success is that their comic approach to rap is coupled with a genuine love of the music, so while the lyrics may be the purest comedy about committing suicide to sell records, smoking heaps of dope, having a sex-change mum and being a cyborg, the beats that back them up are old school beauties that hook into your brain and set up home in your grinning face. Greatest Hits might just be the most honest debut title ever, but there’s a part of you that wishes, as the subversion of So Solid’s 21 Seconds into the draw anthem 21 Ounces comes to a close or as you try to bodypop and breakdance to the amazingly catchy Soap Bar, that this really isn’t the end and that they could find the unexpected brilliance of this album all over again next time around. Time, and a whole heap of smoke, will tell.
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