The Singles (Basement Jaxx album)
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| Greatest hits album by Basement Jaxx | ||||||||||
| Released | March 21, 2005 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1996–2004 | |||||||||
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| Length | 57:32 | |||||||||
| Label | XL | |||||||||
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| AllMusic |   |
| musicOMH | (favorable) |
| NME | 4/10 |
| Pitchfork | 9.5/10 |
The Singles is the first greatest hits album by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx, released on March 21, 2005 via XL. The album contains two new songs, "Oh My Gosh" and "U Don't Know Me", which were both released as singles. "Do Your Thing" was previously included in the 2001 Rooty album, but with the release of this compilation album, the single was re-released in the UK after the two aforementioned singles.
Later editions of The Singles, included the "JaxxHouz" radio edit of "U Don't Know Me", in place of the original album version. A special edition of the release included a second disc of previously unreleased material.
Talking about the compilation, Buxton told Canadian music magazine The Record:
[...] It's a collection of all our popular songs really, a collection where people could get all the main songs that they liked. It seemed like a good idea to put it out now because a lot of people were coming to our shows and didn't really know that a song like "Romeo" was by the same people who did "Where's Your Head At". Our music [across the years] is quite different so it has probably taken people a while to realise that it's all by the same band. So yeah, that was why really. It could be a collection for people who'd only just found out about us, or seen a live show and wanted to get our music.
"Oh My Gosh" was the first single from the album.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/14/arts/music/14jaxx.html?_r=0
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