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| 1. Queen - You're My Best Friend (A Night At The Opera) | |||
| 2. R.E.M. - Man On The Moon (Automatic For The People) | |||
| 3. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (Pet Sounds) | |||
| 4. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way (Rumours) | |||
| 5. Blondie - One Way Or Another (Parallel Lines) | |||
| 6. The Rolling Stones - Rocks Off (Exile On Main Street) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. John Lennon - Jealous Guy (Imagine) | |||
| 2. Marvin Gaye - What¹s Goin¹ On (What¹s Goin¹ On) | |||
| 3. Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man (Dusty In Memphis) | |||
| 4. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (Bridge Over Troubled Water) | |||
| 5. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (Blood On The Tracks) | |||
| 6. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (Hounds Of Love) | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky (The Dark Side Of The Moon) | |||
| 2. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Edit) (Tubular Bells) | |||
| 3. Radiohead - Paranoid Android(OK Computer) | |||
| 4. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (Urban Hymns) | |||
| 5. Oasis - Champagne Supernova ((What's The Story) Morning Glory?) | |||
| 6. Pulp - Sorted For E's And Wizz (Different Class) | |||
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Album Description
Best Album Tracks is a collection of great songs from great albums. So, who makes the cut? We're given The Jam's "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight", The Specials' "Blank Expression", Madness's "Night Boat to Cairo", "Alison" by Elvis Costello and the brilliant "One Way or Another" from Blondie. There are some classic and remarkably fresh sounding Britpop greats - The Verve with "Bittersweet Symphony", Pulp's "Sorted For E's And Wizz" and the Daddy of them all, "Champagne Supernova" from Oasis. Fancy some beats 'n' bass? there's Fatboy Slim's finest, "Praise You", Massive Attack's "Safe From Harm", French faves Air's "Sexy Boy" and Soul II Soul with "Back To Life". You can also check out classic songs from Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, the Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, Coldplay, David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, Jeff Buckley, John Lennon, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Queen, Rod Stewart, Roxy Music and more.
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A good title. . . but not much else.,
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This review is from: The Best Album Tracks... Ever (Audio CD)
When I read the title, I thought; 'What a good concept, pick choice cuts from well-loved albums.' and then I saw a list of the artists involved, I was already compiling my own tracklisting. And then I saw the album and. . . Well, it's just another ragbag selection of tracks, compiled with no real care. Far from these being only album tracks, the majority would also come under the heading 'singles' and it seems to the compilers at least, all an album track has to do to qualify is beloing to an album, well that disqualifies songs like 'Whatever' by Oasis or 'Paperback Writer' by the Beatles which were stand-alone singles but let's face it, what songs don't appear on albums these days? The choices include the blindingly obvious; 'Bittersweet Symphony' and 'Come away with me' are not just album high points for The Verve and Norah Jones respectively, but arguably the most well-known songs of their careers. Other choices are not so quintessential but nevertheless fairly predictable. 'You're my best friend' and 'God Only Knows' are not exactly undiscovered gems. The promise of the album is met in a few small cases, Jeff Buckley's 'Hallelujah' and Lou Reed's 'Vicious' were not singles despite coming from albums that bore a lot of obviously more radio friendly tracks. But if this botching of intent wasn't bad enough, the actual album itself is sequenced very bizarrely with no credence given to historical or musical coherance, the listener is casually tossed from era to era and from mood to mood. The final four tracks of the album reflect this most extremely, and gives the impression that these tracks were left over and of no real interest to the compilers. The music is to all intents and purposes '5 stars' but you are advised to seek out the original albums to hear these classic tracks in context. The complete lack of sequencing lobs off a star and I'll deduct 2 more for the abject failure of the brief. 2 stars!There is a great album to be had out of this concept, but this certainly isn't it.
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic concept, but...,
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This review is from: The Best Album Tracks... Ever (Audio CD)
Surely the whole point is to choose album tracks that were not singles? The only tracks seemingly discounted for this album are standalone singles, that never lived on an LP.Disappointing. (Although, being singles, they've obviously good tracks - no argument with the music on this album, just the choices).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
half full not empty,
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This review is from: The Best Album Tracks... Ever (Audio CD)
The Album had its heyday in the Seventies when it became fashionable to listen (forty minutes or so) by the same artist in a particular groove, theme or concept. Some great artists pulled it off with great brio and are featured here aplenty- Dylan, the Stones, Beach Boys, David Bowie and the Beach Boys etc. It was a great format to sit on your on bum without getting up for at least twenty minutes. The downside of the introduction of this format- the music snobbishness and the fetish of the format over the song.
Oh to be young in a such a digital age where music is a plentiful and spans genre,class, race, nationality and gender. The song has become key and people can one minute listen to an old blues record, the next moment Sinatra, Abba, Roxy Music or whatever. Look at the quality of songs on this cd look at the quantity - 6 old albums worth of music- catholic and as comprehensive as one cd is ever going to be. Let's try and get past the lazy diatribe about compilations - yes I have most of this music elsewhere but how I wish I was young guy listening to this music for the very first time. Serendipity. More than half full with Punk, the Beatles, the Stones, Prog Rock, Glam Rock, Jazz, College Rock, Techno, Brit Bop, Ska, Heavy Metal, Folk, and lets not forget the majestic Dusty! Peace and social justice Mackin Music
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