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Music Compilations Kisstory Urban Classics (Umtv) 
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| Kisstory Urban Classics (Umtv) |
| By Michael Hulme | |
Monday, 01 September 2003 Description:Sister release to last year’s number one album Kisstory Dance Classics, this is a double CD featuring "the musical pioneers who helped shape the urban scene." Which means? The first compilation sold shedloads, so they’ve slapped another one together in order to pick up big money pre and post-Christmas – providing a handy soundtrack for the gaggles of twentysomethings who gather round someone’s house to drink bottles of middle-market wine and discuss house prices and memories of Bagpuss. Is it much cop? It sounds like I’m sneering again, doesn’t it? I’m not. This is "da bomb". Word. How many good tracks? Loads. This is one impressive compilation. It’s easy to slip in a few fillers here and there, but almost every track here deserves its place on merit alone. Thirty eight tracks and only a couple of duffers. Soul II Soul, Young Disciples, Family Stand, Brand New Heavies, TLC, En Vogue, Young MC, Tribe Called Quest, DJ Jazzy Jeff – I could go on, but let’s just say the track listing reads like a roll-call of urban talent. And the worst? What, the couple of duffers? C&C Music Factory’s ‘Everybody Dance Now’ has aged beyond belief and now sums up a past era as well as Black Lace’s ‘Agadoo’. Omar’s lounge lizard schmoozing on ‘There’s Nothing Like This’ was horrible when it came out, and time has only made it sound worse. Salt ‘n’ Pepa’s ‘Let’s Talk About Sex’, on the other hand, sounds just as bad ten years on as it ever did. Biggest disappointment? That pop music hasn’t ever sounded this fresh and soulful since. Imagine a compilation of 2003 – Gareth Gates! Will Young! David Sneddon! S Club Juniors! Now go and weep. Verdict: Buy it, leave it on ‘random play’, and pretend that chart music still sounds this vital now. (5/5) Release Date: 01 September 2003
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