Lust in Phaze: The Best of Soul Coughing

Product Description
20 tracks from LP's, singles & soundtracks from 1994-1998 including 'Circles', 'Blueeyed Devil', 'Casiotone Nation' (live) plus the previously unreleased tracks 'Buddha Rhubarb Nation' & 'Super Bon Bon' (Propellerhads Radio Edit). Slash/Rhino Records. 2002.

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Lust in Phaze: The Best of Soul Coughing

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lost in phaze
Soul Coughing still rocking!
Well Kept Secret
Excellent band, but for newcomers only
discover some brilliantly fractured pop

Lust in Phaze: The Best of Soul Coughing
Soul Coughing
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000630Z3
Release Date: 2002-03-19

Tracks:

Bus To Beelzebub
Sugar Free Jazz
True Dreams Of Wichita
Screenwriter's Blues
Janine
Blueeyed Devil
Buddha Rhubarb Butter
Unmarked Helicopters
Super Bon Bon
Soundtrack To Mary
Lazybones
Paint
Collapse
The Idiot Kings
Rolling
St. Louise Is Listening
$300
Circles
Super Bon Bon - (Propellerheads radio edit)
Casiotone Nation - (live)

Album Description

20 tracks from LP's, singles & soundtracks from 1994-1998 including 'Circles', 'Blueeyed Devil', 'Casiotone Nation' (live) plus the previously unreleased tracks 'Buddha Rhubarb Nation' & 'Super Bon Bon' (Propellerhads Radio Edit). Slash/Rhino Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

lost in phaze.......2006-05-23

isn't batman and robin a rubbish movie? no really, doesn't it just feel like one long explosion?? maybe it was at this stage that i started to move away from mainstream cinema (bear with me here, i'm going somewhere with this). anyway, the only thing i can remember from it was the feeling that i had to pick up the soundtrack just to get my hands on underworld's 10 minute techno slab 'moaner'. also there (buried on the movie, i think, under the sound of revving motorbike engines) is a track by soul coughing called 'the bug'. my first introduction, enough to get me hooked.
three albums later and they chose to call it a day. now i have those albums and picked this up mainly for 'unmarked helicopters', my decision. best ofs are a funny thing though, and it sometimes feels that releasing one after three albums is a rip off. what separates this one from a run-of-the-mill 'hits' effort is the tracks chosen for it, since in the main i think they've done an excellent job. album by album then...
debut 'ruby vroom' is represented well, though i would have ditched 'janine' and 'true dreams' in favour of 'supra genius' and 'uh zoom zip' (doughty almost rapping at one stage). for those of you who question his prowess as a lyricist (and i doubt anyone reading this does), witness the bile he injects into 'screenwriter's blues'. as caustic a monument to the lure of stardom as you could wish for - you will NEVER hear the word "fly" pronounced with more venom
'irrestistable bliss' is probably my fave sc album. was amazed and gratified by the presence of 'super bonbon' and 'soundtrack to mary', tracks which are almost too good for a best of. would have swapped 'the idiot kings' for 'how many cans?', if only to hear mr doughty sing "fire".
'el oso'. heresy perhaps, but i never rated 'circles' (the liner notes would suggest it was a throwaway 'hit' to get the record company off their backs) - swap for the haunting 'incumbent'. good to see the presence of 'rolling' and '$300' (see comments on 'super bonbon' above), and thank god too for the absence of 'so far...'. i mean its got an acoustic guitar in it, which makes it ideal 'best of' material, right?
so there you have it. call it almost or nearly (those words are probably a microcosm of the band's career) the perfect best of. also could have done without a completely superfluous remix, though good to hear the live version of 'casiotone nation'. a poor substitute for being there perhaps, but them's the breaks.

Soul Coughing still rocking!.......2006-03-24

Bought it for 4 songs for a video. Worked out great!.

Well Kept Secret.......2005-11-13

Buy this CD as an introduction to a well kept secret in the music world. The music is very mature, creative, and never boring. The lyrics thought provoking, the music hypnotic at times. Great rhythems and bass lines. One can;t help but make some comparisons the Dave Matthews Band, mostly their non radio material.

Excellent band, but for newcomers only.......2004-04-02

As an introduction to an excellent, highly underrated band, this album is not half-bad. Sure, it's missing a lot of essential songs ("Soft Serve", "Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago", "I Miss The Girl", etc.) but short of downloading it's the most comprehensive SC collection you'll find on the market. But I personally would recommend probably the most commercially successful album of theirs to start off with, Irrestible Bliss. That album will be enough to indicate whether you like this band or not.

For fans of the group - you're not really missing much if you don't pick up the album. There's some nice liner notes, a remix of "Super Bon Bon" and a live "Casiotone Nation", but nothing else that makes it worth purchasing. It would have been made more appealing if they gathered the band's soundtrack contributions and added a bonus disc of B sides if they were available (like they did with the Smashing Pumpkins best-of album).

In summary: Not a bad place to start if you want to check out one of the most innovative bands of the '90s, but few selling points for members of the Five Percent Nation.

discover some brilliantly fractured pop.......2004-03-26

Few bands are as criminally overlooked as Soul Coughing, but in their short career they managed to craft some brilliantly fractured pop that went sadly unnoticed by mainstream listeners. Paving the way for like-minded bands like Cake and the Bloodhound Gang, Soul Coughing was the beat poetry antidote to the heavy-handed grunge that was clogging the airwaves when they first arrived in 1994. The six tracks from their first album are some of the best songs in the band's canon, showing what an impressive impact they made with a simple formula. Samples from old 78s, Warner Bros. cartoons, and answering machines created a moody backdrop for the jazzy rhythm section and M. Doughty's cigarette-scarred croon, resulting in charming gems like "True Dreams of Wichita." Featuring their biggest single ("Super Bon Bon"), the tracks from Irresistible Bliss are marked by a maturity in their songwriting and much broader soundscapes crafted by the band. The beautiful "Idiot Kings" receives its much-deserved place among the more popular tracks, although leaving off "Soft Serve" is ridiculous when a useless B-side like the Propellerheads' remix of "Super Bon Bon" makes the cut. The very best tracks from their final release, El Oso, are represented in possibly the best track picks on the whole album. Sonically experimental and bordering on electronica at times, these songs show a maturity that was sadly cut short by the demise of the band. A few key tracks are missing ("Is Chicago Not Chicago" is inexplicably left off) and the B-sides are mostly filler (with the exception of the gorgeous "Unmarked Helicopters"), making for a few complaints from longtime fans. http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/ But to anyone looking to discover the sound of Soul Coughing, there is no better source than Lust in Phaze, an album that manages to capture the band's hipster charm and cool soundscapes while also featuring the variety of material they were capable of.

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