release date: Mar. 22, 2004
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5]
producer: Hilmer Hassig
label: Columbia Records / Sony Music - nationality: Denmark
Compilation album by Love Shop released simultaneously with the live album Copenhagen Screaming!. Both albums were not meant to be the epic last releases that would sum up all their best tracks from all their seven studio albums, but in hindsight they stand like landmarks after the band's musical composer, lead guitarist, and main producer, Hilmer Hassig, had decided to leave the band; and although, the remaining two, Hall and Unmack, didn't feel like calling it a day, a disbandment seemed like the most natural consequence. Hassig proclaimed his departure on the band's official site, and Unmack soon stated that they all felt sorry about Hassig's decision, but he also wrote that it did not mean that Love Shop wouldn't continue as a band but that it would signify a period of uncertainty and without a new album around the corner.
The last studio album thus remain National (2003) - despite fine reviews, I feel it's not as successful as their former creations and in a sad way end it all - although, it would not quite end with this after all.
This compilation is a fine collection with 16 great tracks but it really doesn't justify the band's catalogue, as more than a few great songs are left out, and as a double disc version hasn't been released, this remains the best alternative to buying all their albums.
