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Groove Coverage - Greatest Hits
If I told you that this band were called Groove Coverage it would probably bring to mind one of two things for you I would imagine (especially if you are a UK reader).
The first would be that they are a ‘turn’ a double act who ply their trade around the Working Mens Clubs of Northern England, usually the bloke is on keyboard and his semi glamorous (if you are lucky) female partner will take up vocal duties, they’ll belt out several cover versions between them and won’t dare over run in case it easts into the regulars bingo time.
The other option with a name like Groove Coverage, would be for them to be a better looking, younger option. Probably a very cheesy European dance act who would have one hit single and would then put the same backing track to the next two singles they released before finally proving they had another string to their bow with a ballad about saving the world or love living for ever.
So which do you think it is then for Groove Coverage?
Yes you are right, it doesn’t really matter as either would be awful, however I can tell you that they are in fact nearer to my second description, with the exception of one thing, I don’t remember these having any sort of hit in the UK.
- Groove Coverage
- Greatest Hits (2005)
- Category: Album
- Label: Renegade Records
- Reviewed by: Kev
- Published on: 28 Dec 2005
- Comments: 0
- Beat Surrender Rating:
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Add to favouritesNow amazingly this duo have been around since 2001, they are made up of DJ Novus and a vocalist called Mell (she is quite pretty to be fair to her). Somewhere along the line they have managed to sell 800,000 singles, hence this release of ahem Greatest Hits.
Onto the stereo this album went and my first impression was that this groups hits aren’t quite so great after all. In fact I’d probably go as far as to say they stink rotten. The album opens with a dance cover of Alice Coopers hit Poison and amazingly manages to go even further downhill from that low point onwards.
The same euro beat from fifteen years ago is trotted out time and time again, before the token ballad appears under the name Home. Further into the album you get a Robbie Williams style ballad called Lullaby For Love but by this point I’ve lost the will to live listening to this drivel.
If you are unlucky enough you may stumble into a club in backwater England possibly playing this sort of thing, black trousers, white shirt and a bad attitude will be essential dress code should you wish to enter the premises though.
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