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Amazon.co.uk Historically speaking, it was at about this point that the Shamen drifted away from their traditional constituency--the rave crowd who'd supported them up to and including the En-Tact album--and began to make serious inroads on the UK and European charts, courtesy of a string of glossy, lightweight singles: "LSI (Love, Sex, Intelligence)", "Ebeneezer Goode" (with its notorious "Eezer good" chorus--perhaps the most crashingly unsubtle drug reference in pop history) and "Phorever People". The difference? Simply the increased prominence of vocalist Mr C. With his plummy, enunciated "raps", his fey, finger-waving dances, and his apparent lack of anything even vaguely resembling a groove, there was a lot of unkind speculation in the music press as to just what that "C" stood for--accompanied by much moaning on the part of the longtime fans--but as the group's sound shifted from techno to euro-pop, its bank balance never looked healthier. --Andrew McGuire Product description cd - 12 tracks - TPLP42CD - play it again sam