Heavenly Pop Hits

RELEASE
1995
LABEL
Flying Nun
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, New Zealand Rock, College Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock

Album Review

Supplanting the earlier Kaleidoscope World as a singles overview of the band, from early days to cuts from Soft Bomb, Heavenly is a great starting point for any Chills newcomer. The opening three songs alone make this a winner -- the title track, a shimmering pop gem, "I Love My Leather Jacket," a poppy Velvet Underground/Krautrockin' salute to deceased drummer Martyn Bull, and "Doledrums," a perverse celebration of collecting unemployment and killing time with a neat clock-chime opening. From there on in its one great highlight after another, sprightliness and beauty tinged with melancholy and gloom in equal amounts, not to mention the quick, brisk surge that colored so many of their tracks ("Oncoming Day," "Never Never Go" and the charging "Look For the Good in Others," presented in a remixed form). "Pink Frost," probably the band's most famous number, is unsurprisingly featured, but that's merely the tip of the iceberg, especially when it comes to the earlier songs like "Kaleidoscope World" itself and "Rolling Moon." Concluding with later winners like "Part Past Part Fiction" and "Male Monster From the Id," Heavenly Pop Hits is, indeed, just that.
Ned Raggett, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Heavenly Pop Hit
  2. I Love My Leather Jacket
  3. Doledrums
  4. Double Summer
  5. Oncoming Day
  6. Rolling Moon
  7. I'll Only See You Alone Again
  8. Never Never Go
  9. Wet Blanket
  10. Pink Frost
  11. Kaleidoscope World
  12. Look for the Good in Others and They'll See the Good in You
  13. House With 100 Rooms
  14. Part Past Part Fiction
  15. The Male Monster from the Id
  16. This Is the Way