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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Salesrank: 558595
Released: March 10, 1998 |
| Our Price: $4.41 |
| Used Price: $0.18 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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All Saints Track Listing:
1. Never Ever
2. Bootie Call
3. I Know Where It's At
4. Under the Bridge
5. Heaven
6. Alone
7. If You Want to Party (I Found Lovin')
8. Trapped
9. Beg
10. Lady Marmalade
11. Take the Key
12. War of Nerves
All Saints Reviews:
Music You Have To Buy 
2003-09-27 - I have to admit if I was reading this review I would be like, "I have never heard of all saints so im not going to buy their CD" Thats my mistake, as well as yours if your thinking that right now. All Saints aren't a really popular group (I think they split up) but I love their CD. I've had it for a while now, and its great. Its a typical British band but something about their style is drawing your attention to this CD.
Overall: Amazon.com is the perfect place to buy this CD. Or if you see it in another store buy it and you won't regret it. :)
They know where it's at. 
2003-09-06 - All Saints, largely considered a pop paradox of two talented musicians and two pretty blonde sisters-come-media-whores who couldn't sing for peanuts, were the epitome of the late nineties UK R'n'B/pop. And 'never ever' did they get it more right. Smooth harmonies, silky melodies, and the right balance between booty-shakers and cool R'n'B slowjams.
Their debut album, the somewhat uninspiringly titled 'All Saints', showcases why these four girls were the hottest thing on the 'credible' side of pop in 1998. Whilst the Spice Girls were off romping around in their platforms, the cargo-wearing, laidback girls Shaznay Lewis, Mel Blatt, and Nicole and Natalie Appleton managed to achieve the same sort of success but do it with a bit more dignity than their popstar counterparts. From the smooth yearning 'Never Ever' to the bump-and-groove 'I Know Where It's At', the album is a largely quality release. They offer two delicious covers, a rap-infused reworking of 'Lady Marmalade' and a gorgeous version of Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Under The Bridge', and positively shine on the dirty 'Bootie Call' and Spice Girls disco spin 'If You Want To Party (I Found Lovin')'.
Admittedly there are a few weak spots. 'Trapped', 'Beg' and 'Heaven' are nice enough songs, but not up to the standard of the singles. However, considering the mileage the girls got out of the seven (!) singles they managed to release from this record, that's only a minor misstep in a very listenable album.
Cool, fresh and just as funky six years on.
Great British female R&B/pop
2002-06-14 - When British girl group All Saints first burst onto the scene they were seen as just another addition to the post-Spice Girls girl power craze. It wasn't until people heard their music that they began to hail them as the next big thing. And that they were, in Britain at least, achieving five number one hits, winning a Brit Award and producing two critically acclaimed and popular albums.
This first one is an assured mix of dance, soul and funk. Although the singles are obviously the highlights, there's plenty else here as well to make it a very consistent album. Something like `Never Ever' is a genuine classic: soft, vulnerable and pleading without being sentimental or over-the-top. The key to this group is that they are as you see them, a group of mature young ladies singing about what's important to them - love and relationships. It's a mark of band member Shaznay Lewis' talent that she can write such universally accessible material whilst still keeping it personal.
But even if there are plenty of personal moments on here there's also a lot of fun to be had, particularly in their stomping `I Know Where It's At' or their fantastic version of `Lady Marmalade', to which they've added a rap which surprisingly works exceedingly well. The underlying sauce to some of their tracks, nowhere so evident as on the breathy `Bootie Call', is equally impressive. The group even get close to a touching song, something unusual for a pop group, with `War Of Nerves', written about the death of Princess Diana, which is in one word `beautiful'. This is heaps more durable than the Spice Girls and a mature debut. Listening to this, it's a shame the group split after only two albums.
All classic 
2002-03-25 - Often thought of as the Stones to the Spice Girls' Beatles, All Saints offered up a more expressly "adult", R&B-styled sound with their debut album. The huge hit "Never Ever" purred in heartbroken penance, but "Bootie Call", along with many other tracks, showed that these girls weren't the kind to mope. Shaz, Nic and Nat, and Melanie Blatt, along with an all-star roster of producers like Nellee Hooper and Cameron McVey, crafted tracks that meld hard beats with pure Meox Mix vocals, leaving songs as darkly glittery as nightlights reflected on a windshield. This ride jets from booty-wagging abandon ("I Know Where It's At") to steely, get that man on his knees resolve ("Alone"), sometimes in the same song, as with their scrumptious, did-it-better-than-Christina-Mya-etc. remake of "Lady Marmalade." "I Know Where It's At" shows the Saints at their most exuberant, with its pitch-perfect choice of "get your groove on" lyrics and commanding bassline. "If You Want to Party" continues the Spice Girls' noble tradition of reinventing disco; "Beg" showcases the Saints' male-humbling powers. The cover of "Under the Bridge" is especially provocative, converting that alt-rock chestnut into a thumping dance-pop epic with, paradoxically, a strong sense of melancholy. And the melancholy really gets cinematic in the sweeping "War of Nerves", a chilling and thrilling ballad that closes out the record. Note too the Appleton-sisters-penned "Heaven", another powerful tale of yearning. Yes, these party gals know how to cry. And they know something about constructing memorable pop. The eponymous All Saints album is another classic in the wave of British pop that stormed the world in the late 90s, proving the great strength and vitality of what girls in a studio can do.
Much better than you would think
2002-02-13 - I'm surprised by the lack of reviews- and good ones- for this album, seeing as other pop records by Dido and Craig David get billions of reviews. Anyway this record is much better than you would think, I'm not usually a big fan of pop music, my brother got this CD back in 1997, after leaving it behind when he left for university I sampled it and was pleasently surprised by the music actually.
The All Saints are very local for me - Nicole Appleton used to live in my road, but unfortunately has since moved away from Belsize Park-
Although they have been compared to the spice girls, that comparison is out of order- they're actually a lot more like Oasis being part of the mid-nineties cool Britannia movement . Firstly, the spicegirls are from the North of England, not London. The Spice girls are well ugly, whereas the All Saints are very fit. And finally the All Saints music is alright, the spice girls music is not alright.
About the music, as I said I was pleasently surprised.Being a piano player with perfect pitch,at college at the moment, I usually listen to 'serious music' -modern jazz, classical music a little rap music, I was impressed by the album. It uses some interesting harmonies in some places, the drummer lays down -more cool than in most pop music- beats, and the singing is high quality and the song writings ok especially on 'Never Ever'-which is the best cut is more like a poem at first evolves into a very nice song which uses the chord progressions of 'amazing grace'. I found a website on this actually:
I've only heard there most recent album-Sinners and Saints on MTV but it sounds even better actually so I recommend it as well.
To conclude, the All Saints -unfortunately recently split- deserve much more respect and attention than they get, as far as pop music goes they are the most musically sophisticated and also the best looking band there is.
