Definitive Collection: Best of the Best Gold [Import]

Track Listings
1. Shining Star
2. That's The Way Of The World
3. Sing A Song
4. Getaway
5. Fantasy
6. Got To Get You Into My Life
7. September
8. Boogie Wonderland
9. After The Love Has Gone
10. Star
11. Can't Let Go
12. And Love Goes On
13. Let's Groove
14. Fall In Love With Me
15. Magnetic
16. System Of Survival
17. Thinking Of You

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Limited Import reissue of 1995 'Best Of' compilation for the soul/funk/disco legends, pressed onto a gold disc. 17 tracks including, 'Boogie Wonderland', 'September', 'Fantasy', 'Shining Star' and 'After The Love Has Gone'. Standard jewel case housed in a slipcase. Sony.

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Definitive Collection: Best of the Best Gold [Import]

Definitive Collection: Best of the Best Gold [Import]
Definitive Collection: Best of the Best Gold
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • STUDIO & LIVE BYRDS SAMPLER REISSUED
 Definitive Collection: Best of the Best Gold
The Byrds
Manufacturer: Sony/Columbia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000I6BKOG
Release Date: 2006-10-23

Tracks:

  1. Mr. Tambourine Man
  2. Chimes Of Freedom
  3. Bells Of Rhymney
  4. I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
  5. All I Really Want To Do
  6. Turn! Turn! Turn!
  7. Set You Free This Time
  8. Eight Miles High
  9. 5d (Fifth Dimension)
  10. Mr. Spaceman
  11. So You Want To Be A Rock N Roll Star
  12. My Back Pages
  13. Have You Seen Her Face
  14. Goin' Back
  15. Wasn't Born To Follow
  16. Lady Friend
  17. You Ain't Going Nowhere
  18. Lay Lady Lay
  19. Ballad Of Easy Rider
  20. Jesus Is Just Alright
  21. Chestnut Mare
  22. I Trust
  23. I Wanna Grow Up To Be A Politician
  24. Glory Glory
  25. America's Great National Pastime

Album Description

European only Best Of The Best Gold-Disc pressing is housed in a die-cut slip case, exposing the gold disc. This very generous 29 track Byrds compilation features their absolute finest recordings including 'Turn Turn Turn', 'Eight Miles High', 'My Back Pages', 'Mr. Tabourine Man', 'I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better', and many more. Also features three live recordings! Sony/BMG.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars STUDIO & LIVE BYRDS SAMPLER REISSUED.......2007-03-22


This is a 2006 reissue of the 1995 Columbia/Holland album which is still available from Amazon [See "Definitive Collection" ASIN BOOOOOG5VL].

But it's not clear to me if these albums are identical.

I have the 1995 version which consists of two disks. Disk one has the same 25 songs listed here in the same order. Disk two re-edits 4 live songs from the original "Untitled" into a 25 minute mini-concert.

The "Product Description" for this 2006 reissue says it is a single disk of 25 tracks; but elsewhere farther down, says there are 29 tracks including live performances. So... what is it?

And which version should you get?

My only (mild) complaint about the 1995 release was that the sound quality while good was not up to 20 bit standards.

If this reissue is just a single disk of 25 songs, you would do better to buy the 1995 album with a bonus live disk -- and for a buck cheaper at that.

If this is identical to the 1995 double album, but with sound quality upgraded, I'd go with this one.

Below is my original review of the 1995 release:

A 2-DISK (STUDIO & LIVE) BYRDS SAMPLER

Although the album contents as listed above suggest a single CD, this is actually a two CD set. The first disk of 25 studio cuts runs 72:58, and a second disk of 4 live performances from '(Untitled)' clocks in at 24:56.

The first CD is probably the best single disk compilation to cover the band's entire career, and despite some curious choices it is for the most part very good listening. I love the opening programming sequence of the 5 "Tambourine" album cuts, and that promising start is sustained with growing excitement for most of the disk -- at least through "Sweetheart's" 'You Ain't Goin' Nowhere'.

The only album not covered is "Dr. Byrds", which is represented by the overdubbed single 'Lay Lady Lay' issued in that period. It failed to make the original "Dr. Byrds" album in any form, and whatever your opinion of that single (which many find either hugely impressive or disastrous), omission of 'This Wheel's on Fire' (especially), 'Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man', or something from "Dr. Byrds" is for me a significant stumble -- after which the program loses momentum and fails (in my opinion) to adequately convey the quality of the later albums.

'America's Great National Pastime' was for me an unworthy conclusion to a Byrds career retrospective. Almost anything else from "Farther Along" would have been more satisfying.

Still I have to admit enjoying the way this program laces the obligatory cuts with unexpected choices like 'Lay Lady Lay' and 'I Trust'. This makes for a fresh listening experience to USA fans, where the first of these did not chart and the second was never issued as a single.

The sound quality is good but a little short of first rate, so I suspect these were compiled from European EQ masters rather than the originals. In fact there's a production error tip-off: the slamming door that opens 'Get To You' on "Notorious Byrd Brothers" appears here at the end of 'Wasn't Born To Follow'; the engineer thought it closed the latter track instead of opening the former. Clearly, he was working from an EQ copy of the "Notorious" album, not the song's master. And 'Lady Friend' is a rarity, the original monaural single, which may interest collectors. It sounds fine and you probably won't notice the monaural track without headphones.

The second disk of live performances from "(Untitled)" is an entertainingly edited little excerpt that seamlessly melds 'Lover of the Bayou' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man' into a continuous performance, followed by the 16 minute 'Eight Miles High' jam. As on "(Untitled)" the jam ends with a bridge song and McGuinn's farewell to the audience...but this disk then edits in "Mr. Spaceman" as an encore brought on by the cheering crowd.

Overall I found this an entertaining album worth buying even for Byrds fans who have everything. The sheer volume of material rates four stars at the least. It's a nice alternate program for those times when you're in the mood for the Byrds from a fresh perspective, and not a bad introductory album.

I also like having a 25 minute Byrds live mini-concert on a separate disk.

However, as a full career retrospective of this band's long run on Columbia, "Definitive Collection" fails to beat out the 2 CD set "The Essential Byrds".


Definitive Collection: Best of the Best Gold
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • meat loaf definitive collection (gold cd)
 Definitive Collection: Best of the Best Gold
Meat Loaf
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00002477C
Release Date: 2002-08-21

Tracks:

  1. Paradise By The Dashboard
  2. Bat Out Of Hell
  3. You Took The Words Right
  4. Two Out Of Three Ain't Ba
  5. Heaven Can Wait
  6. Dead Ringer For Love
  7. Read 'Em And Weep
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Album Description

1995 compilation on Epic featuring 16 of the hefty rocker's best on one disc & a bonus CD with live versions of four of these classics: 'Paradise By The Dashboard Light', 'Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad', 'You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)' and 'Bat Out Of Hell'. 20 tracks total. Double slimline jewel case.

Album Details

Best of the Best Gold.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars meat loaf definitive collection (gold cd).......2004-03-16

this is not a 2 cd set. the sound quality is far superior than the very best of meatloaf. alot of people would not give it a 5 stars because it is lacking alot of good songs on it. to be a definitive collection. these are early edition songs. so no home by now/no matter what, life is a lemon and i want my money back, i'd do anything for love and objects in the review mirror. the songs you will get is dead ringer for love, two out of three ain't bad, bat out of hell (single version).paradise by the dashboard light, you took the words right out of my mouth, heaven can wait, read em and weep, peel out, im gonna love her for both of us, razor's edge and 6 more. one includes w/ted nugent. i rated it 5 stars. for the soung quality and it still has great songs on this collection.

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