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| 1. I Feel Love |
| 2. With Your Love |
| 3. Last Dance |
| 4. MacArthur Park |
| 5. Hot Stuff |
| 6. Walk Away |
| 7. Dim All The Lights |
| 8. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) |
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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Although this album is a good buy to get the extended versions of some of Summer's greatest dance hits, it is by no means complete. The omission of hits like Bad Girls, Love's Unkind and Love To Love You Baby and of great album tracks like Queen For A Day, Working The Midnight Shift, Lucky and Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart detracts somewhat from the pomise of the album title. On the other hand, the inclusion of the magnificent MacArthur Park Suite makes up for a lot of what is missing. And this extended version of I Feel Love is worth the price of the album. Like another reviewer said, this ought to have been a 2-CD set. It is valuable to replace those old 12" vinyl singles, but not a comprehensive reflection of the Queen of Disco's contribution to dance music.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
from the opening bars of "i feel love" you know how good this cd will be! after 8 minutes of this you go into "with your love" an unknown track but its wonderful..only available on this cd! as dance hypnotic as the predecessor! then you have"last dance" a summer classic in its 12" glory!!! amazing!!! jumping straight into the macauthur park suite.."yes we know someone left a cake out" but the 18 minute frenzy that encapsulates "one of a kind" and "heaven knows"..its a bit too much!
then into the 12" versions of "hot stuff" and "walk away"!!! if exstatic hasnt set in by now...you get "dim all the lights"...and to finish you off the full lenght versions of "tears are not enough" is a show stopper!
if you only buy 1 donna summer album...buy this one!
then into the 12" versions of "hot stuff" and "walk away"!!! if exstatic hasnt set in by now...you get "dim all the lights"...and to finish you off the full lenght versions of "tears are not enough" is a show stopper!
if you only buy 1 donna summer album...buy this one!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This was a joy of a collection. All of the tracks are worth having on CD.
However I disagree with some of the other reviewers comments. The people who compiled this album were careful about which tracks to include. There was no point including tracks that had been issued on albums. All of these albums had been re issued on CD already. This release does say "a compilation of Twelve inch singles" (Singles being the important bit) There were some twelve inch releases in the 1970s and 1980s from the Casablanca recordings that would not be included here because they were no different from the album versions. For example the 12" single versions of Bad Girls, Sunset People, and Love to Love you Baby were all just the album versions in full unlike the 7" versions which were edited down and shorter. All of the tracks included here were all released on 12" as singles and all are alternative mixes to either the album version or 7". Although the version of last Dance was on the soundtrack to the film Thank God its Friday, it had been included with other artists as a compilation and didnt appear with any other Donna Summer album. Also the version of Macarthur Park suite did appear on the original album Live and More but hadnt been included on the CD version so once again wasnt available on a CD Donna Summer album. The track No more tears did appear on the CD version of On the Radio, but then that was also a compilation of Donna Summer hits. Having said all that I agree that they could have turned this into a double CD release. Or even a Dance Collection Two. They could have included tracks such as I Feel Love the full Patrick Cowley remix 12" single that lasts over 15 minutes. Or the Bonus 12" single from the soundtrack Thank God its Friday.je T`aime moi no plus that lasts nearly 16minutes. They could have even used the 12" version of Paul Jabbara`s Never ever lose your sense of Humour that featured Donna Summer through 90% of the track on main vocals. The two weakest 12" Singles on this collection have to be Dim all the lights and Walk away. This is because they were not special 12" mixes. In fact they are simply the album mixes re edited. Walk away simply is the album version that goes as far as it can then repeats the second half of the tracks chorus over and over. And Dim all the lights goes through the whole of the album version up to the point where it would go into journey to the centre of you heart and then suddenly crashes back to the beginning of the track to repeat itself again for an extra couple of minutes again. (poor editing really) I remeber rushing home excitedly after buying the original vinyl release in 1979 to see what they had done with to make it so much longer than the album version only to find they had simply edited the same track. All the same its a great collection from a magic era of Disco.
However I disagree with some of the other reviewers comments. The people who compiled this album were careful about which tracks to include. There was no point including tracks that had been issued on albums. All of these albums had been re issued on CD already. This release does say "a compilation of Twelve inch singles" (Singles being the important bit) There were some twelve inch releases in the 1970s and 1980s from the Casablanca recordings that would not be included here because they were no different from the album versions. For example the 12" single versions of Bad Girls, Sunset People, and Love to Love you Baby were all just the album versions in full unlike the 7" versions which were edited down and shorter. All of the tracks included here were all released on 12" as singles and all are alternative mixes to either the album version or 7". Although the version of last Dance was on the soundtrack to the film Thank God its Friday, it had been included with other artists as a compilation and didnt appear with any other Donna Summer album. Also the version of Macarthur Park suite did appear on the original album Live and More but hadnt been included on the CD version so once again wasnt available on a CD Donna Summer album. The track No more tears did appear on the CD version of On the Radio, but then that was also a compilation of Donna Summer hits. Having said all that I agree that they could have turned this into a double CD release. Or even a Dance Collection Two. They could have included tracks such as I Feel Love the full Patrick Cowley remix 12" single that lasts over 15 minutes. Or the Bonus 12" single from the soundtrack Thank God its Friday.je T`aime moi no plus that lasts nearly 16minutes. They could have even used the 12" version of Paul Jabbara`s Never ever lose your sense of Humour that featured Donna Summer through 90% of the track on main vocals. The two weakest 12" Singles on this collection have to be Dim all the lights and Walk away. This is because they were not special 12" mixes. In fact they are simply the album mixes re edited. Walk away simply is the album version that goes as far as it can then repeats the second half of the tracks chorus over and over. And Dim all the lights goes through the whole of the album version up to the point where it would go into journey to the centre of you heart and then suddenly crashes back to the beginning of the track to repeat itself again for an extra couple of minutes again. (poor editing really) I remeber rushing home excitedly after buying the original vinyl release in 1979 to see what they had done with to make it so much longer than the album version only to find they had simply edited the same track. All the same its a great collection from a magic era of Disco.
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