Advantages: All the best songs in one place Disadvantages: Not worthwhile for the aged-old fan
channels and maybe it does get the odd bit of 'extra' airtime. (E.g. "Close To Me" being on a BBC Three programme...it's name escapes me, but it may have been the 'Smoking Room'? Answers on a postcard...)
Their 'greatesthits' album, released in 2001 through Fiction Records and only done so on the basis that Smith could choose the tracks himself is 19 tracks that show a chronological tale of the band and their music through the years. (Although two of the tracks are brand new!)
Opening track "Boys Don't Cry" was released in June 1979, eight years before I was born. Yet with it's instantly recognisable guitar riff it's something that the countless bands since then that have idolised and 'taken influence' from the Cure could take the rest of time to improve on. I believe the saying is along the lines of put some monkeys in a room ...
Advantages: Great tracks old and new Disadvantages: None
I am a big fan of Whitney Houston, I think she has a beautiful, moving voice that has not been beaten since. I have already done a review on her first album, Whitney Houston but by far my favourite album of hers has to be Whitney, The GreatestHits!
Just a little background on the queen of pop herself incase you haven't heard of her:
Whitney Houston was born on August 9th, 1963 and is an extremely successful recording artist and actress. She comes from a very successful family and upbringing, her aunt is Dionne Warwick and her godmother is Aretha Franklin. Music was in the blood and she starting singing gospel music in her local church at aged 11. In the words of Clive Davis, written on one of the booklets that comes with the CD's, "For the next generation, there's a singer that combines the fiery gospel of Aretha Franklin ...
Advantages: Brilliant, wonderful rock songs Disadvantages: ...Erm...not for people who like dance music...misses their newer stuff
So going through a pile of my mums CD I spot Westlife, Madonna, Avril Lavigne, Athelete then Aerosmith's greatesthits...well doesn't take a genius to work out which I'm going to take a listen to does it. The plastic cased cover has a nice that when the case is opend "flat" looks rather attractive, the inlay book is album history and credits (why no lyrics?) and the back of the case has the song list.
This world famous band, who've been together for well over 30 years, are considered one of the staple's of American rock, the band led by the always charismatic Steven Tyler (Mick Jagger lookey likey or what?) have managed a longevity many modern bands would be happy with and more so, they have been performing at a high level for the marjority of it.
So now back onto the album, the opening track "Dream on" was sampled by Eminem in his ...
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Product details
Title
Greatest Hits
Performer
Johnny Cash
Genre
Country
Release Date
13/07/1998
Original Release Year
1967
Label / Distributor
Columbia / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
5099748054920
Catalogue Number
4805492
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Johnny Cash, June Carter (vocals). This collection catches up with Johnny Cash right after his Sun Records rockabilly period. He moved over to Columbia at the tail end of the 1950s, just when the initial salvo of rock & roll was dying out, responding to their promise of creative freedom. The mostly-'60s hits included here find him embracing that freedom, perhaps nowhere as tellingly as on "Ring of Fire," the June Carter/Merle Kilgore-penned gem in which surreal biblical imagery meets mariachi trumpets in an unlikely but brilliant production. Cash acknowledges the '60s folk boom with covers of Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe" and Pete La Farge's American Indian protest song "The Ballad of Ira Hayes." An anti-violence message is portrayed with a minimum of didacticism and a maximum of organic poetry on "Don't Take Your Guns to Town." Columbia's GREATEST HITS provides an excellent guide through Johnny Cash's '60s.
Titles on disc 1
1.
I Walk The Line
2.
Big River
3.
Don't Take Your Guns To Town
4.
I Got Stripes
5.
Five Feet High And Rising
6.
Tennessee Flat Top Box
7.
Bonanza
8.
Ring Of Fire
9.
Understand Your Man
10.
It Ain't Me Babe
11.
Orange Blossom Special
12.
One On The Right Is On The Left
13.
Ghost Riders In The Sky
14.
Jackson - Cash, Johnny & June Carter
15.
Boy Named Sue (live)
16.
Daddy Sang Bass
17.
If I Were A Carpenter - Cash, Johnny & June Carter
18.
What Is Truth
19.
Flesh And Blood
20.
Wanted Man
21.
Man In Black
22.
Thing Called Love
23.
Kate
24.
One Piece At A Time
25.
Highway Patrolman
26.
Johnny 99
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