Golden Greats is the second solo album released by Ian Brown

Ian Brown

Ian George Brown is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses, which broke up in 1996 but are confirmed to reunite in 2012. Since the break-up of the Stone Roses he has pursued a solo career...

, the ex-frontman of The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s...

. Despite the title, the album is not a compilation album, but rather, a studio album. The album, described by NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

as "a left-field masterpiece and Brown's best work for a decade", contains soaring sonic textures and electronic dance beats; it is less song-oriented than Unfinished Monkey Business

Unfinished Monkey Business

Unfinished Monkey Business is the debut solo album by Ian Brown released in February 1998 via Polydor Records. The album was self-financed and produced by Brown, and was his first album release since the break-up of The Stone Roses in October 1996...

. Golden Greats showcases a diverse usage of instruments including strings, mellotron

Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...

 and organs.

Track 10, "Babasonicos

Babasónicos

Babasónicos is an Argentine rock band, formed in the early 1990s along with others such as Peligrosos Gorriones and Los Brujos. After emerging in the wave of Argentine New Rock bands of the late '80s and early '90s, Babasonicos became one of the banner groups of the "sonic" underground rock...

", is the name of an actual Argentine

Argentina

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 band that collaborated with Brown on the song.

Track listing

1. "Gettin' High" – 4:01
2. "Love Like a Fountain
   Love Like a Fountain
   "Love Like a Fountain" is the first single from Ian Brown's second solo album, Golden Greats. Released on October 25, 1999, it placed #23 on the UK Singles Chart. The single version of the song was included in Brown's compilation album, The Greatest...
   
   " – 5:14
3. "Free My Way" – 4:19
4. "Set My Baby Free" – 4:26
5. "So Many Soldiers" – 5:16
6. "Golden Gaze
   Golden Gaze
   "Golden Gaze" is the third single from Ian Brown’s second solo album, Golden Greats. Released on June 5, 2000, it placed #29 on the UK Singles Chart.The track was influenced by the Stevie Wonder song, “Golden Lady” from his Innervisions album...
   
   " – 3:56
7. "Dolphins Were Monkeys
   Dolphins Were Monkeys
   "Dolphins Were Monkeys" is the second single from Ian Brown's second solo album, Golden Greats. Released on 7 February 2000, it placed at number five on the UK Singles Chart. The single edit is also featured on Brown's compilation album, The Greatest...
   
   " – 5:06
8. "Neptune" – 3:32
9. "First World" – 5:07
10. "Babasonicos" – 4:05

US version includes:

1. "Love Like a Fountain (Infected By Scourge of the Earth)"
2. "Dolphins Were Monkeys (Unkle Vs. South Remix)"