Arrested Development - Greatest Hits [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
UK 'Best Of' for the alternative rap act & their frontman Speech. Part of the EMI Gold series. 18 tracks including the bonus cuts 'Natural'(unplugged) & 'People Everyday'(unplugged). 2001 release.

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Tracks:

People Everyday (Metamorphosis Radio Edit)
Mr Wendal
Tennessee
United Front
Revolution
Natural
Tell Me Something - Speech
Fountain Of Youth
Can U Hear Me - Speech
Africa's Inside Me
Shell
Give A Man A Fish
Fishin' For Religion
Mama's Always On Stage
Like Marvin Gaye Said (What's Going On) Album Vers - Speech
Ease My Mind
Natural (Unplugged)
People Everyday (Unplugged)

Album Description

UK 'Best Of' for the alternative rap act & their frontman Speech. Part of the EMI Gold series. 18 tracks including the bonus cuts 'Natural'(unplugged) & 'People Everyday'(unplugged). 2001 release.

Album Details

A 13-track greatest hits compilation featuring two bonus unplugged tracks. Also includes three tracks from Speech's solo album.

Customer Reviews:

The path not taken.......2006-10-08

In the early 1990s, groups like Arrested Development, DeLa Soul, Digable Plants, Tribe Called Quest, and the sadly forgotten Gumbo could have revolutionized rap music. Their tunes were filled with jazzy instrumentation, melodic hooks and harmonic raps, and uplifting and intelligent lyrics. Sadly, rappers chose to go down the low road of ignorance, violence, and misogyny which is where it remains today.

But AD and it's leader Speech put out some good stuff in its time. "People Everyday" (the superior remix, not the plodding album version) is included with it's funky tale of violence only being used as a last resort. "Mr. Wendal," a timely tale of sympathy for the homeless, "Tennessee" (need I say more? I listened to this repeatedly during the night of the Rodney King riots in 1992), the little known "Like Marvin Said What's Going on" which is one of the few rap songs I know of with an organ solo, and "Ease My Mid" (with a Pigmeat Markham sample-imagine that?).

It is sad that one of rap's most creative and wonderful groups did not last, but at least you have this CD. Get it and enjoy to see the path rap unfortuantely did not take.

wheat from the chaff.......2005-07-07

This collection really separates the wheat from the chaff to produce a CD with no fillers!! "Tennessee" though it stands alone as a musical and lyrical wonder, will always remind me of Wallace Steven's poem "A Jar Stands in Tennessee." Trust me; read that poem and you'll swear the diction and rhythm inspired Arrested Development!!

I feel AD was always underrated, like my other favorite band of this era, "Galliano," whose "In Pursuit of the 13th Note" is a great hip-hop-rap-melodic-pop companion to AFD's Greatist Hits.

They Need To Make A Comeback.......2004-12-08

This hip hop is waaaay better than garbage like Eminem.

good set.......2002-07-11

this Disc combines AD's first two Album's&Speech's Solo Album.there first Album unto itself was a Greatest Hits Package.alot of Cool Songs that fit really well on that Album.but sadly they never recovered on any follow up&neither did Speech as a Solo Artist but I heard they are getting back together time will tell if they can even half-way Recapture there early Magic?

'Arrested' at it's best.......2002-06-10

It's the best Arrested Development cd I ever heard!!! My favourit is "Mr. Wendal" because it's Rock in the car like nobody else. But there are many other good songs at this LP. But, here for yourself !!!

Average customer rating:

One of the least essential CDs ever

Arrested Development - Greatest Hits
Arrested Development
Manufacturer: Disky Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005RW20
Release Date: 2001-12-06

Tracks:

People Everyday
Mr. Wendal
Tennessee
United Front
Revolution
Natural
Tell Me Something (Let Me Know)
Fountain of Youth
Can U Hear Me?
Africa's Inside Me
Shell
Give a Man a Fish
Fishin' 4 Religion
Mama's Always on Stage
Like Marvin Gaye Said (What's Going On)
Ease My Mind
Natural [Unplugged Version][*]
People Everyday [Unplugged Version][*]

Customer Reviews:

One of the least essential CDs ever.......2006-03-22

Ok, if you want to hear Arrested Development's greatest songs, buy their first CD. It's catchy. It's fun. It's socially conscious if that's a value you seek in your rap albums, but not overly so if you don't.

The rest of their work is garbage. Their acoustic CD. Junk. Their cover of Revolution - almost as bad as the original. Their followup CD - or don't make me choke on my own bile. And that Marvin Gaye song adaptation - like Wild Wild West proved, not everything goes better with rap.