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Blissed Out
Remix album by
The Beloved
ReleasedNov 1990[1]
GenreElectronic dance, pop, acid house
Length54:10 (LP)
70:04 (CD)
100:00 approx. (MC)
LabelEast West
ProducerPaul Staveley O'Duffy, Martin Phillips, Jon Marsh, Adam & Eve, Danny Rampling, The Little Sisters, Bill Coleman, Paul Robb, Tony Humphries, Doc Dougherty, Norberto Cotto, The Baby Brothers
The Beloved chronology
Happiness
(1990) 		Blissed Out
(1990) 		Conscience
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Smash Hits(6.75/10)[3]

Blissed Out is a remix album by English electronic group The Beloved, released in 1990.[4] It is a sister release of their studio album Happiness, released earlier that year, which had generated four hit single releases.

Background

The success of their previous long playing work pushed the group to first follow it up with a brand-new song, called "It's Alright Now," which failed to make the UK Top 40, stopping at Number 46, but helped promote the new compilation, mostly being an expanded remodelled version of Happiness, as the title itself suggested. Almost all of the songs from the Happiness album featured on one of the three available editions, in one or more remixed versions, also including a remix of "It's Alright Now" itself, alongside a couple of tracks which were previously non-album tracks, namely "Acid Love" and "Paradise (My Darling, My Angel)" which were B-sides to the singles "Loving Feeling" and "Your Love Takes Me Higher" respectively.

The remix album was also promoted by a related remix EP, featuring a medley of selected remixes from the album, and particularly by a promo of "Up, Up and Away", the one remaining song from Happiness that the label originally intended to release as a further single, before opting for a re-release of "Your Love Takes Me Higher"[citation needed]. The album was released in three different editions, varying as for length and track listing, depending upon the related format: the vinyl LP, the shortest of the three, includes 8 tracks; the CD version features 11 tracks; and the MC edition, the richest, contains 16 tracks, its final song being "Acid Love", which represented the band's first try at a house track and thus paved the way for "The Sun Rising", which soon became a club favourite, and a little later their first UK hit. The latter included a sample taken from the Hyperion Records recording of "O Euchari" as sung by Emily Van Evera, which was only credited here for the first time, and only on the cassette version, but not on any of the original formats then marketed for the Happiness album, which contained the single version of "The Sun Rising." This step marked a very important achievement for future credits of samples, which became mandatory from then on.

"It's Alright Now" and the 1990 remix album were the last works made by Jon with original band member Steve Waddington at the time. By 1991, Waddington left the group, together with the definite article in the band's name, and was replaced by Jon's wife, Helena Marsh, for Beloved's next album, Conscience.

Track listings

LP

Side A
  1. "Up, Up and Away" (Happy Sexy Mix) – 7:08
  2. "Hello" (Honky Tonk) – 6:10
  3. "Wake Up Soon" (Something to Believe In) – 6:14
  4. "Time After Time" (Muffin Mix) – 6:18
Side B
  1. "Pablo" (Special K Dub) – 4:57
  2. "The Sun Rising (Norty's Spago Mix) – 7:04
  3. "It's Alright Now" (Back to Basics) – 5:35
  4. "Your Love Takes Me Higher" (Calyx of Isis) – 10:44

CD

  1. "Up, Up and Away" (Happy Sexy Mix) - 7:08
  2. "Hello" (Honky Tonk) - 6:10
  3. "Wake Up Soon" (Something to Believe In) - 6:14
  4. "Time After Time" (Muffin Mix) - 6:18
  5. "Pablo" (Special K Dub) - 4:57
  6. "The Sun Rising" (Norty's Spago Mix) - 7:04
  7. "It's Alright Now" (Back to Basics) - 5:35
  8. "Your Love Takes Me Higher" (Calyx of Isis) - 10:44
  9. "Up, Up and Away" (Beautiful Balloon Mix) - 6:51
  10. "Hello" (What's All This Then?) - 4:34
  11. "The Sun Rising" (Danny's 'Love Is...' Mix) - 4:29

Cassette

Side A
  1. "Up, Up and Away" (Happy Sexy Mix) - 7:08
  2. "Hello" (Honky Tonk) - 6:10
  3. "Wake Up Soon" (Something to Believe In) - 6:14
  4. "Time After Time" (Muffin Mix) - 6:18
  5. "Pablo" (Special K Dub) - 4:57
  6. "The Sun Rising (Norty's Spago Mix) - 7:04
  7. "It's Alright Now" (Back to Basics) - 5:35
  8. "Your Love Takes Me Higher" (Calyx of Isis) - 10:44
Side B
  1. "Up, Up and Away" (Beautiful Balloon Mix) - 6:51
  2. "Hello" (What's All This Then?) - 4:34
  3. "The Sun Rising" (Danny's 'Love Is...' Mix) - 4:29
  4. "Your Love Takes Me Higher" (Simply Divine) - 5:07
  5. "Paradise" (My Darling, My Angel) - 4:36
  6. "Time After Time" (Through the Round Window) - 5:00
  7. "Don't You Worry" (Timeless Dub) - 4:14
  8. "Acid Love" - 5:34

Singles and promos

Personnel

The Beloved

Remix and production personnel

References

  1. ^ "Blissed Out". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 Nov 2018.
  2. ^ Cooper, William. "Review: Blissed Out - The Beloved". Allmusic. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
  3. ^ Shaw, William. "Review: The Beloved: Blissed Out (East West)". Smash Hits (28 November-11 December 1990). EMAP Metro: 60.
  4. ^ "Blissed Out". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 Nov 2018.
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