A sea of faces just like me...

The thing with Mansun is that everyone seems to have a different opinion of them. For some, they are just the band that did ‘Wide Open Space’ whereas for others they are the most important band since Manic Street Preachers. Early EPs were not named after the opening track, they just had numbers, meaning that Mansun seemed to know that their fans were going to become obsessive before they had even hit the point where they DESERVED obsessive fans.

Brilliantly, ‘Legacy’ is a best of rather than a singles collection or greatest hits. Naturally record company pressure means that all the singles are here, but it also features the best Bond theme that never was ‘The Chad Who Loved Me’ as well as ‘Getting Your Way’ from the aborted but beautiful fourth album ‘Kleptomania’.

Naturally those of us that have followed Draper and crew since those early days are hoping for a little more and this collection delivers. The DVD has all the videos – how exactly would YOU make a video for a song as dark and brooding as ‘Negative’? How about a black and white dissection of loneliness and voyeurism? ‘Six’? A sparse white background and the band playing a different but still stunning version of the paranoid schizophrenic song that noone else would ever have released as a single. That’s Mansun.

The DVD also features a new documentary, that shows a band unsure and pure traveling around and has an interview with a band broken and defeated talking about how it never did a Greatest Hits tour for the fans. It’s only right that a band as quirky and stunning as Mansun should never follow the rules. Remember them this way – it ends with Super 8 footage accompanying the sublime pop of ‘Love Remains’. Yes - Love remains Mansun.