Greatest Hits

Let's face it.Any Westlife fan would already own most of the tracks on the single disc edition "Greatest Hits" bar the four new songs,two of which are mediocre at best.So what's in this three disc set to make you buy lots of songs you already own again?? Not much.The attraction for me was the dvd,collecting all the music videos together.A much better career defining collection than the audio discs,but,as is the case with most Sony Music bonus discs,the quality varies from one clip to the next.I'll try to explain.
Essentially what you have here is "Westlife - the Greatest Hits [DVD]" with the videos released since that collection added on to the end.The first video collection was released in 4:3 picture aspect ratio,so if you have one of the newer widescreen televisions,these clips all appear,for the most part,as a rectangle in the middle of the screen which will need to be zoomed up if your set has that function.Some clips are shot in full screen 4:3 so for these you will need to zoom your tv down to avoid clipping the top and edges of the picture.When we get to "Mandy" this video is correctly displayed in widescreen then everything drops down to 4:3 again before reverting to widescreen again for "Amazing" then back to 4:3 again for "The Rose" after which all the newer videos are in widescreen.Confused?? your tv will be!If you're watching this dvd on an older square shaped tv,or computer you won't have any problems but,most of us have upgraded our sets to watch our movies and music/concerts in widescreen.
The sound for the majority of the clips is ok but only in two channel stereo not 5.1 surround like the "Chapter One" dvd.Whoever put this dvd together either didn't know what they were doing,had no budget or should be fired.
The package itself is also pretty thoughtless,my discs are ALL scratched from the tight card sleeve pages inside the book where they are stored.
As some other reviewers have pointed out,what was wrong with calling it Chapter Two and releasing a proper cd & dvd,focused on the music since "Unbreakable",instead of rehashing the first half of their career again.I hope the dvd gets remastered and re-released but I'm not holding my breath.
Westlife have given me many happy moments over the last decade and a bit,they deserve a much better send off than this.

I've grown up with Westlife songs and love them all, so I just had to get this when I noticed it was available to pre-order.

First of all I love the packaging. It's like a little book with the cd's and dvd forming one of the pages. It's very original.

This has all the classics on that you would expect plus a few new songs (such as Lighthouse.) I don't think there are any songs that I'm sad are not on there.

I chose this version of the greatest hits because I felt the other version didn't have all the songs I would have liked. The dvd is a great extra but I wouldn't have been bothered about it if the other cd had just had a few more songs on. As I type this I notice that this cd isn't available through Amazon anymore, which is a shame, but I noticed it was limited edition when I ordered my copy.

A great CD which I'm sure will be listened to over and over again.

This collection of Westlife's greatest hits needs no review because if you loke Westlife then this
CD will give you all the biggests hits for this group. The best point of this purchase is that the cost on Amazon was cheaper than I-Tunes. As my music collection is on an I-Pod I was concerned about downloading from a source other than I-Tunes, I need not have worried the process was simple and quick and I was guided every step of the way be excellent instructions from Amazon.