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  • Audio CD (24 Mar 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B00008AWNW
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,893 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

Extraits
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. I'm Alive (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:27£0.69
Listen  2. Sorry Suzanne (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:01£0.69
Listen  3. Here I Go Again (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:21£0.69
Listen  4. On a Carousel (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:13£0.69
Listen  5. King Midas In Reverse (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:09£0.69
Listen  6. Look Through Any Window (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:16£0.69
Listen  7. Blowin' In The Wind (Nash Version) (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:11£0.69
Listen  8. The Air That I Breathe (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:12£0.69
Listen  9. Pay You Back With Interest (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:42£0.69
Listen10. I've Got A Way Of My Own (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:14£0.69
Listen11. Stay (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:13£0.69
Listen12. The Very Last Day (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:58£0.69
Listen13. We're Through (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:15£0.69
Listen14. Carrie Anne (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:56£0.69
Listen15. Magic Woman Touch (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:19£0.69
Listen16. I'm Down (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:11£0.69
Listen17. Gasoline Alley Bred (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:55£0.69
Listen18. I Can't Let Go (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:27£0.69
Listen19. Sandy (4th July, Asbury Park) (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:10£0.69
Listen20. Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:18£0.69
Listen21. Stop Stop Stop (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:51£0.69
Listen22. If I Needed Someone (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:21£0.69
Listen23. Dear Eloise (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:05£0.69
Listen24. Long Dark Road (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:16£0.69
Listen25. I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:17£0.69


Disc 2:

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:22£0.69
Listen  2. Bus Stop (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:55£0.69
Listen  3. Jennifer Eccles (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:01£0.69
Listen  4. The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:27£0.69
Listen  5. Too Young To Be Married (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:01£0.69
Listen  6. Listen To Me (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:39£0.69
Listen  7. Just One Look (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:30£0.69
Listen  8. Searchin' (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:24£0.69
Listen  9. (Ain't That) Just Like Me (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:09£0.69
Listen10. Yes I Will (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:56£0.69
Listen11. What's Wrong With The Way I Live (2003 Digital Remaster) 2:00£0.69
Listen12. Lonely Hobo Lullaby (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:14£0.69
Listen13. Daddy Don't Mind (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:37£0.69
Listen14. The Baby (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:56£0.69
Listen15. Hey Willy (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:33£0.69
Listen16. Son Of A Rotten Gambler (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:07£0.69
Listen17. Write On (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:51£0.69
Listen18. Star (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:40£0.69
Listen19. Boulder To Birmingham (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:58£0.69
Listen20. Soldier's Song (2003 Digital Remaster) 4:01£0.69
Listen21. The Woman I Love (2003 Digital Remaster) 3:37£0.69
Listen22. How Do I Survive 4:00£0.69

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Notwithstanding the entirely acceptable omission of 1981's rather desperate Stars-on-45 style retro-medley Holliedaze, this rather definitive Greatest Hits collection contains every single Hollies song that ever tickled the mass fancy of record buyers anywhere in the world, ever. Even the sleeve notes dispense with the scantest of biographical detail to present a veritable Wisden's Cricketer's Almanac of impressive global chart statistics, including mentions of Number One singles in Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Holland, South Africa, Singapore, Ireland, Switzerland, as well as the UK. Of course, the Hollies were nothing if not adaptable. The grinning beat pop and "pap pap she waddy wops" of "Stay" through to the folky overtures of "I've Got a Way of My Own" (like an oestrogen-free version of the Mamas and the Papas) were obviously marvellous and yet entirely generic responses to the overriding cultural dominance of the Beatles and Bob Dylan. But much the same thing can be said for the majority of their peers.

Still, the 1960s were a golden age for the Hollies and to hear the Graham Gouldman penned "Bus Stop", "Carrie Anne" (part Kinks, part Beach Boys, part calypso) or the sweet-shop bubble gum of "Jennifer Eccles" is to be reacquainted with a sunny lost world of short skirts, mini coopers and policemen on bicycles. Even the knee-jerk cod-psychedelia of "King Midas in Reverse"--a full-on trumpets-blaring, cello-charging microcosm of Revolver and Sgt Pepper-isms--deserves revisionist plaudits. There is one newly recorded track on the album (featuring Allan Clarke's replacement, the former Move vocalist Carl Wayne) called "How Do I Survive". Regrettably, it's a disco-cum-AOR rock thing that sounds like the result of an unfortunate liaison between James Ingram and Foreigner. Still, when faced with the spine-tingling, classic gold timelessness of "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother" and "The Air That I Breathe" it would matter not one jot if the bonus track was a three-part harmony rendition of a page out of the telephone directory. --Kevin Maidment

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'Greatest Hits' brings together the most succesful tracks by the Salford formed beat-combo who regularly charted in the1960's. The band - whose founder members included Allan Clarke and Graham Nash - had two no.1 hits, 'I'm Alive' and 'HeAin't Heavy He's My Brother'. Their intricate vocal harmonies also brought them a further 15 top ten singles which are all included here.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Truly Fantastic, Big Value Collection, 13 April 2003
By Mathew Shires (Wakefield, England) - See all my reviews
There's been a lot of quality Hollies collections over the years, notably "20 Golden Greats" and "The Air That I Breathe", but this double is much bigger and better, containing virtually every hit single they ever had anywhere in the world.

Amazingly, neither CD here gets boring or proves to be heavy going-all of the 60s stuff is here and sounding FANTASTIC, (especially "Look Through Any Window" and "Jennifer Eccles", they sound like they were digitally recorded yesterday)

You also get some excellent tunes from the last 30 years thoughtfully mixed in, such as "The Air That I Breathe", "Soldier's Song", and "The Baby". You can still loudly hear the Hollies influence today in the music of Oasis, Travis, Teenage Fanclub et al and they shouldn't be forgotten.

This collection is very similar in completeness and entertainment value to the Bee Gees "The Record" compilation-in other words, a wonderful VFM hits package.

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ambitious compilation to satisfy whole world, 13 Sep 2003
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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The Hollies were one of the best British groups around in the sixties. This anthology attempts to cater for the whole world by including songs that were hits in a variety of different countries. Clearly a lot of research went into the track selection, though a third CD would have been required to do the job comprehensively. Stewball (a huge hit for Peter Paul and Mary elsewhere) was a huge Swedish hit for the Hollies but is not included here. Two minor American hits (Another night, Do the best you can) are also missing, as are minor hits from some other countries.

Despite those omissions, this is an undeniably strong compilation. Of course, their biggest successes were in their home country, where their long list of big hits includes I'm alive, Sorry Suzanne, On a carousel, Look through any window, The air that I breathe, Carrie Anne, He ain't heavy he's my brother, Bus stop, Jennifer Eccles, Just one look and Yes I will. Of these, Just one look is a cover of a song that had been a huge American hit for Doris Troy.

The big UK hits are not the only ones worth hearing. If I needed someone and King Midas in reverse were, by their standards, modest hits but still wonderful. The generally less successful seventies are also well represented, not only by The air that I breathe (first recorded a year earlier by Phil Everly – yes, really), but by Long cool woman in a black dress, Gasoline alley bird and Boulder to Birmingham (a cover of an Emmylou Harris song). A new recording completes the set.

This is as good a collection of Hollies music as you are ever likely to find. If you enjoy British sixties pop music, you will find much to enjoy here.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A superb compilation, 26 Mar 2004
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Having seen the Hollies play in Belfast in February 2004 and having had previous "Greatest Hits" on both vinyl and cassette, I can honestly say this is one of the best albums I have ever bought. I know there are some tracks not included but this is compensated by the songs on the double CD. These Cds contain all the hits. If you like the Hollies buy this - I will have it worn out it's been played so much.
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