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: Some great Songs Disadvantages: Some terrible Songs
As a proud owner of this album myself I can tell you that by buying it you will not be dissapointed. As an avid fan of 60's music myself, yet not from that era myself, i was as eager as anyone to get my hands on this product regardless!
Personally I enjoyed tracks 3,7, and 9 best. Some of the good old classics!
Admittedly the other ones may have been slightly poorly chosen, but I assume it was some poor uneducated survey collector somewhere who was asked to choose them. Regardless of this I think it is an excellent album.
When the album itself was delivered to me it arrived promptly and in good condition, I am just saying this because i had concerns it may have had been bodged, fortunately I was mistaken . ...
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 ...
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Product details
Title
Greatest Hits Of The 60s (80th Birthday Edition)
Performer
Tony Bennett
Genre
Jazz Vocal
Release Date
06/11/2006
Recomended Retail Price
10.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2006
Label / Distributor
Columbia / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Producer
Ernest Altschuler; Jack Gold; Mitch
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
828768477922
Catalogue Number
82876847792
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Tony Bennett (vocals). Recording information: 1960 - 1969. A companion piece to the excellent TONY BENNETT'S GREATEST HITS OF THE '50s, this 16-track collection gathers the jazz-pop singer's biggest and best from one of his most fruitful periods. Alongside such timeless classics as "The Best is Yet To Come" and "I Left My Heart In San Francisco," this set includes comparative rarities from the Anthony Newley and Johnny Mercer catalogues, as well as one of Bennett's few rock covers, an excellent jazzy interpretation of George Harrison's "Something."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Put On A Happy Face
2.
Best Is Yet To Come
3.
Once Upon A Time
4.
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
5.
I Wanna Be Around
6.
Good Life
7.
This Is All I Ask
8.
When Joanna Loved Me
9.
Speak Low
10.
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
11.
If I Ruled The World
12.
Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
13.
Shadow Of Your Smile
14.
For Once In My Life
15.
My Favorite Things
16.
Something
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