OTHER ALBUMS/SONGS

 

VARIOUS ARTISTS - PERFECT DAY

Released: November 1997 (featuring Huey Morgan)

Highest Chart Position: 1

- one song you just have to know.

 

FINLEY QUAYE - IT'S GREAT WHEN WE'RE TOGETHER (FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS REMIX)

Released: November 1997

Highest Chart Position: 29

- a Finley Quaye song sounding very much like a Fun Lovin' Criminals song. And that isn't a bad thing.

 

FINLEY QUAYE AND FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS - CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC

Released: November 1997 (B-SIDE to It's Great When We're Together)

Highest Chart Position: 29

- quality cover of the Jimi Hendrix song. Would be great if played live.

 

G. LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE - STEPPING STONES (FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS REMIX)

Released: 1998

- Very cool commercial funk. If you like FLC, you'll love this.

 

DUST JUNKYS - LIVIN' IT UP (FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS REMIX)

Released: February 1998 (B-SIDE to What Time Is It?)

Highest Chart Position: 39

- slowed-down rap funk. In the same style as FLC.

 

CYPRESS HILL - DR GREENTHUMB (FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS REMIX)

Released: April 1999

Highest Chart Position: 34

- quite a good little remix.

 

GARBAGE - YOU LOOK SO FINE (FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS REMIX)

Released: June 1999

Highest Chart Position: 19

- Garbage at their best.

 

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN - WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE?

Released: 1999

The songs:

1. What Are You Going to Do With Your Life?
2. Rust
3. Get in the Car
4. Baby Rain
5. History Chimes
6. Lost on You
7. Morning Sun
8. When It All Blows Over
9. Fools Like Us

- The Criminals feature on the tracks 'When It All Blows Over' and 'Get In The Car' (a wonderful summertime groove featuring Fast on the horns - undoubtedly an album highlight). This critically acclaimed album provided a remarkable comeback for the band and lead singer Ian McCulloch, who, in the same year recorded a cover of Sinatra's 'The Summer Wind' with the guys for their lounge album 'Mimosa'.

Best Tracks: Rust, Get In The Car, Fools Like Us

 

PLANET GROOVE COMPILED BY HUEY MORGAN

Released: December 2000

The songs:

CD1

1. Barry White (Love's Unlimited Orchestra) - Love's Theme

2. First Choice - Dr Love

3. Kool & the Gang - Too Hot

4. The Isley Brothers - Groove With You

5. Odyssey - Native New Yorker

6. Zapp - Be Alright

7. Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23

8. The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost

9. Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent

10. Split Enz - I Got You

11. Santa Esmeralda - Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

CD 2

    1. War - Baby Brother
    2. Yarbrough & Peoples - Don't Stop The Music
    3. Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
    4. Mantronix - Do You Like Mantronix
    5. Eric B & Rakim - Microphone Fiend
    6. The Sugarhill Gang - Passion Play
    7. Noreaga - Superthug
    8. Redbone - Come And Get Your Love
    9. Electric Light Orchestra - Turn To Stone

10. Slave - Watching You

11. ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses

Best tracks: Barry White - Love's Theme, Odyssey - Native New Yorker, Noreaga - Superthug

 

SADE - KING OF SORROW (FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS REMIX)

Released: March 2001

Highest Chart Position: 59

- wonderfully schmoove jazz chillout. Combining the sassy vocals of Sade with the laidback beats of the Criminals is a stroke of genius.

 

HUEY MORGAN WITH JOOLS HOLLAND - FLY ME TO THE MOON (IN OTHER WORDS)

Released: 18th November 2002

- First performed on New Year's Eve 2001 at Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny (BBC 2). Now features on Jools Holland's 'Big Band, Small World Volume 2' album.

 

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