After 15 years, 159 weeks on the UK singles chart, 232 weeks on the albums chart, and five mammoth world tours playing to 5million people in 38 countries its fair to say that
Jamiroquai has finally made it. What;s more, he's got the six multi-platinum algums, 5 MTV Awards, the Grammy, the Ivor Novello and more to prove it.
And now comes HIGH TIMES: SINGLES 1992-2006 - a singles collection which tracks the decade and a half journey via his irresistible rare groove and unmistakable barbed disco. It's an album which Kay has openly resisted for the best half of his career; determined that Jamiroquai's greatest hits wasn't going to be a couple of top tens and some well chosen filler.
As it is, the group's consistently on-point albums have proved such a reliable source of dancable hits, that there wasn't enough room to fit them all on the 19 track CD. Track back and it's astinishing how many hige hits Jamiroquai has enjoyed. There's his 10 single, the anti-war anthem "Too Young To Die" taken off the debut album EMERGENCY ON PLANET EARTH
This was followed by the title track off second album RETURN OF THE SPACE COWBOY, which is still Kiss FM's most played track of all time. Also offering up hits was 1997's TRAVELLING WITHOUT MOVING, which spawned songs like "High Time", "Alright", "Cosmic Girl" and "Virtual Insanity".
The hits kept coming, right up to 2005's DYNAMITE, which earned Jamiroquai a Grammy nomination for "Feels Just Like It Should". What would any year be without a new Jamiroquai song and HIGH TIMES features two in "Runaway" and "Radio". They both certainly live-up to Kay's claim to have "plenty more cracking stuff to come".
"There's a hell of a lot of pressure to come up with two new hit singles for your greatest hits, but I think we've cracked it", says Jay Kay of the two songs. And fans can rest assured that Jay Kay has plenty more songs up his sleeve describing HIGH TIMES as very much volume one of the greatest hits...