Ultimate Collection, The - Petula Clark

Advantages: A real pick me up, a song repeating over and over in your head.
Disadvantages: None.

...There are millions of songs in the world, but from all the rest, this one really does stand out. Downtown, by Petula Clark is really the song to play if your feeling down and lonely, it really does make you feel better. In chart records, it got to #1in the USA Hot 100 number-one hits, and kept that record for 2 weeks from January 23rd until February 6th 1965, being knocked off by The Righteous Brothers with You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin. In the UK chart it got to #2, and was sang in French and in France got to #6. The song was finished 30 minutes before its first recording by a guy called Hatch in the studios mens room. Downtown was also the first song ever to be sang by a British artist to enter the Billboard Top 100. It also went on to win a Grammy Award for best rock and roll song. The song has also appeared in many... Read review

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Advantages: If you are new to Irish Folk music then this is the one for you!
Disadvantages: If you already have some of Clannad's other work you may already have most of this compilation.

...slicker and more synthy, and they are now an institutionalized part of the Celtic-New Age scene. And, yes, Maire's little sister Eithne, aka Enya, did get her start in the family band, although she was only briefly a member at the beginning of the 1980s, before setting off to become a super-duper New Age superstar in her own right. Most current Clannad fans probably like them for all the reasons that I no longer do: the slick, heavily layered, glossy production, and the muzak-y tilt of their later work, as well as the gooey spirituality. Maire Brennan also has a significant solo career, which increasingly has become a platform for her Christian beliefs. The song list is on this "The Ultimate Collection" is however as follows:- CD.1. 1. Dulaman 2. Two Sisters 3. Siuil a Run 4. Down by the Sally Gardens 5. Níl Sé Ina Lá 6. An t... Read review

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Advantages: Great to have all the best songs on one disc
Disadvantages: none I can think of

...released her first solo album in 1992 "DIVA" which sold over 1.2 million copies. They reunited in 1999 and released "Peace". In 2004 Lennox won the Golden Globe Award and an Oscar for the song from the Lord of the Rings:Return of the King "Into the West". ********************************************************************* The Ultimate Collection consists of 19 songs taken from the Albums:- In the Garden (1981) Sweet Dreams (1983) Touch (1983) Be Yourself Tonight (1985) Revenge (1986) Savage (1987) We Two Are One (1989) Peace (1999) ******************************************************************* The songs on the CD are:- I've Got a Life (4.05) Love is a Stranger (3.42) Sweet Dreams (are made of this) (3.36) Who's that Girl (3.44) Right by your Side (3.49) Here comes the rain again (4.51) Would I lie to... Read review

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