Beyond the Blue Horizon
Artist: Lou Christie
Community Score: 9.00

Originally issued in 1973 on the Three Brothers label as Lou Christie, this is Lou's first dabble into doing something that could get play on a country radio station. The big hit, of course, is the title tune, now a soundtrack mainstay of Rain Man, Dutch, A Home of Our Own and cable TV's Travel Channel. But Christie's interpretations of Tony... Read More

Greatest Hits
Artist: Patty Smyth

For many years, Patty Smyth inexplicably lacked a hits compilation, but Columbia/Legacy finally issued the single-disc Greatest Hits in the fall of 1998. Drawing from both her solo recordings and her time with Scandal, from her recordings for both Columbia and MCA, the 16-track contains all of her hits, including "Goodbye to You," "The Warrior,"... Read More

The Rock 'n Roll Years 1958-1963
Artist: Cliff Richard

Such an unimaginative title for such a imaginative boxful. Across four discs and 105 songs, Cliff Richard's earliest catalog comes in for precisely the kind of treatment every rock & roll star should have: an all-encompassing study of his most important period. Even more impressively, though the song titles all sound familiar, the performances... Read More

Greatest Hits
Artist: The Mamas & the Papas

Not to be confused with earlier hits compilations, the catalog number on this 20-song collection is MCAD-11740. This is the single-CD successor to Creeque Alley, the double-disc career retrospective issued in the early '90s. All of the hits from "California Dreamin'" to "Dream a Little Dream of Me" are here, along with their more celebrated... Read More

My Time: The Anthology (1969-1997)
Artist: Boz Scaggs

In his liner notes to the double-disc, two-and-a-half-hour Boz Scaggs compilation My Time: The Anthology (1969-1997), Ben Fong-Torres writes, "There are those who, charting Boz's career, identify specific phases: rock and roll with [Steve] Miller; the early solo albums, which were as much country and blues, and pop and jazz, as they were rock;... Read More

Anthology
Artist: Dusty Springfield

Weighing in at three discs, Anthology sets out to be the definitive Dusty Springfield compilation and it damn near achieves its goal. While the size of this set makes it a little impractical for fans that just want the hits, anyone that wants to dig deeper into her career will discover that she was one of the most consistent interpretive singers... Read More

Woodface - UK BONUS CD
Artist: Crowded House

Where Crowded House's previous album, Temple of Low Men, showcased the often dark side of a man alone with his thoughts, Woodface represents the joy of reunion and the freedom of a collaborative effort -- more than half of the album was originally conceived as a Finn Brothers project, which was Tim and Neil's first crack at writing together. The... Read More