Saturnz Return

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Saturnz Return
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Studio album by
Goldie
Released27 January 1998
Studio
Genre
Length
  • 149:16 (CD)
  • 75:14 (cassette)
  • 73:20 (vinyl)
Label FFRR
Producer
Goldie chronology
Timeless
(1995)		Saturnz Return
(1998)		 Ring of Saturn
(1998)

Saturnz Return is the second studio album by Goldie, released on 27 January 1998. [1] The album entered the UK Albums Chart at 15, however only spent four weeks on the chart in total. [2]

Contents

The album received mixed reviews upon release, with particular negative attention paid to the hour-long opening track "Mother". [3]

Content and documentary

The album opens with the hour-long piece "Mother", which includes a "30-piece string section" and "classically trained child singers" and was intended to sonically represent Goldie being put up for adoption at age three by his mother, being raised in multiple children's homes and by various foster parents, as well as his life in the public eye after the success of his first album and becoming addicted to cocaine. Goldie said he needed to make it, and described it as opening with a "beautiful piece of music that's the voice of a child who's not arrived yet" before "the whole thing descends, and it's being cast away [...] He's trying to find his way and he becomes a monster, and the beats become really complex and start to grow really fierce". [3]

Goldie filmed an accompanying documentary, Goldie: When Saturn Returnz, about his search for his birth parents, in which he questioned his biological father and "chastis[ed]" his birth mother, which was considered "uncomfortable viewing" by Alexis Petridis of The Guardian . Goldie subsequently reconciled with his mother before her death, and she asked him to play the track at her funeral. He refused due to its length, but played the track on his headphones while seeing her body before her funeral. He stated that the experience of making the track "was what it was for. [...] It was for that simple moment." [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Entertainment Weekly B [6]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Muzik 7/10 [9]
NME 8/10 [10]
Pitchfork 8.6/10 [11]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Spin 6/10 [13]

Goldie said that his record label were expecting "something like [his] first album" Timeless after he had become the "poster boy for drum'n'bass" in the years following its release. The label listening to the hour-long "Mother" was dramatised in the 2008 John Niven novel Kill Your Friends , with Goldie claiming that their dissatisfaction with it was also "the end for one [label executive]'s career". The suite also divided British music critics at the time, who "were so perplexed that largely they chose to ignore the rest of the album" despite following tracks featuring David Bowie, Noel Gallagher and KRS-One. [3]

The album was reissued for its 21st anniversary in 2019 with an additional disc of old and new remixes. [14] Goldie said that he "tried to tell [his label] no" but that they "insisted", saying that they believed "people should hear it now". He was still unsure whether they had come to "genuinely believe" in the album or if they were "trying to recoup the money they lost on it in the first place". [3] Reviewing the reissue Backseatmafia stated " ...twenty years on, his vision is thoroughly vindicated." [14]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Goldie, except where noted [15]

CD pressing

Mother
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Mother"Goldie, Optical, John Altman60:11
2."Truth" (featuring David Bowie; includes hidden track, "The Dream Within") 13:52
Saturn
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Temper Temper" (featuring Noel Gallagher) 5:14
2."Digital" (featuring KRS-One) 5:51
3."I'll Be There for You"Goldie, Anne Dudley, Malcolm McLaren, Trevor Horn 6:57
4."Believe" 7:09
5."Dragonfly" 16:04
6."Chico – Death of a Rockstar"Goldie, Jorge Mautner, Rob Playford 7:14
7."Letter of Fate" 7:54
8."Fury – The Origin" 6:30
9."Crystal Clear"Goldie, Justina Curtis6:53
10."Demonz" 5:28
Total length:149:16

The cassette release is identical to the Saturn disc, with five songs on each side.

Vinyl pressing

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'll Be There for You"Goldie, Anne Dudley, Malcolm McLaren, Trevor Horn 6:57
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Chico – Death of a Rockstar"Goldie, Jorge Mautner, Rob Playford 7:14
Side C
No.TitleLength
1."Fury – The Origin"6:30
Side D
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Crystal Clear"Goldie, Justina Curtis6:53
Side E
No.TitleLength
1."Demonz"5:28
Side F
No.TitleLength
1."Digital" (featuring KRS-One)5:51
2."Temper Temper" (featuring Noel Gallagher)5:14
Side G
No.TitleLength
1."Letter of Fate"7:54
2."Truth" (featuring David Bowie)5:15
Side H
No.TitleLength
1."Dragonfly"16:04
Total length:73:20

Charts

Chart performance for Saturnz Return
Chart (1998)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [16] 35
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [17] 44
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [18] 35
French Albums (SNEP) [19] 51
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [20] 43
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [21] 30
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [22] 35
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [23] 38
UK Albums (OCC) [24] 15

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