I bought this in Fopp the day after New Year's Day, 2002, along with five other albums. I'd guess that I paid no more than £25 for the lot. Almost all bargain bin stuff — except for Miles in the Sky — and this would have been the cheapest of the cheap. The sleeve notes make it clear that it was put together and re-issued to cash in on the Austin Powers/Mike Flowers Pops kitsch fad in the mid '90s ("A loungecore classic revisited" it says on the cover).
The music isn't itself especially banal or cheesy, but neither does it have enough character to make you want to pay attention. I probably bought it thinking it might be a laugh to put it on for a bit when I had some friends round, but neither my friends nor I have that kind of humour, so I never have done.
There's a lesson from this: buying cheap music cheaply cheapens your experience of music. Bad idea.
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