Blissed Out (The Beloved album)
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| Remix album by The Beloved | ||||
| Released | 1991 | |||
| Genre | Electronic dance, pop, acid house | |||
| Length | 54:10 (LP) 70:04 (CD) 100:00 approx. (MC) |
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| Label | East West | |||
| Producer | Paul Staveley O'Duffy, Martin Phillips, Jon Marsh, Adam & Eve, Danny Rampling, The Little Sisters, Bill Coleman, Paul Robb, Tony Humphries, Doc Dougherty, Norberto Cotto, The Baby Brothers | |||
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| Smash Hits | (6.75/10) |
Blissed Out is a 1991 remix album by the British pop band The Beloved, and a sister release of the 1990 studio album by the band, the UK #14 Happiness, which had generated four hit single releases.
The success of their previous long playing work pushed the group to first follow it up with a brand new song, called "It's Alright Now," which failed to make the UK Top 40, stopping at Number 46, but helped promoting the new compilation, mostly being an expanded remodelled version of Happiness, as the title itself suggested. Almost all of the songs from the Beloved second album (which dropped the initial article The from their name for this new release) featured on one of the three available editions, in one or more remixed versions, also including an alternative cut of "It's Alright Now" itself, and a couple of instrumental tunes, namely "Pablo (Special K Dub)," and "Paradise (My Darling, My Angel)," both non-album tracks up to then, though the latter already featured as the B Side to the Beloved's first UK Top 20 single and international big hit, "Hello," which caused massive media exposure for the CD single that contained it and its related tracks.
The remix album was also promoted by a related remix EP, featuring a medley of selected remixes from the album, and particularly by a promo of "Up, Up and Away", one of its best remixes, and also the one remaining song from Happiness that the label originally intended to release as a further single, before opting for a totally brand new track. As mentioned above, the new long playing work was released in 3 different editions, varying as for length and track listing, depending upon the related format: the vinyl LP, the shortest of the three, includes 8 tracks; the CD version, which is the only one being currently available, features 11 songs; and the MC edition, the richest, contains 16 remixes, its final song being "Acid Love," which represented the band's first try at releasing a dance-oriented item, resulting in an unsuccessful double A-side single, along with "Loving Feeling," back in 1988, though paving the way for "The Sun Rising", which soon became a club favourite, and a little later their first UK hit. The latter included a sample taken from the Hyperion Records recording of "O Euchari" as sung by Emily Van Evera, which was only credited here for the first time, and only on the cassette version, but not on any of the original formats then marketed for the Happiness album, which contained the single version of "The Sun Rising." This step marked a very important achievement for future credits of samples, which became mandatory from then on.
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