Artist: Paul McCartney
The AnthologyArtist: Joe Cocker
A&M's double-disc Anthology may be too much for casual fans that just want the hits, but anyone else will find this exhaustive 37-track chronicle of Joe Cocker's prime years definitive. The first disc concentrates on his first three albums, buttressed by a rare 1964 single of the Beatles' "I'll Cry Instead" and his 1970 non-LP single "The...
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Master Hits: Hall and OatesArtist: Hall & Oates
Community Score: 9.50
Arista celebrated its 30th anniversary by releasing The Heritage Series, spotlighting the most popular artists on the label. The Hall & Oates installment in The Heritage Series is pretty much a straight hits collection, featuring highlights from their stint at the label. Since they arrived on Arista after their peak years at RCA, their biggest...
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Let's Talk About Love - AUSTRALIA BONUS CDArtist: Celine Dion
Community Score: 8.00
Falling Into You finally established Celine Dion as a superstar in America, so its sequel, Let's Talk About Love, was designed to consolidate her position as a newly-minted star. The album was constructed as a blockbuster, featuring Dion's trademark melodramatic ballads, some carefully-tailored dance-pop, a bevy of duets with the likes of Barbra...
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Mistaken Identity CollectionArtist: Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes formed her style on the folk-rock circuit, where a dulcet, technical pop voice is not required. Her husky, full voice signifies early '80s radio and is still unforgettable. The sixteen-song collection starts with her 1981 single "Bette Davis Eyes." This song initiated a string of hits that kept her on the world's charts through 1986....
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Band on the Run - REMASTERED & BONUS CDArtist: Paul McCartney & Wings
The consensus of critics, as well as cold hard sales figures, says that Band on the Run was Paul McCartney's most successful solo album -- and so, shortly after the 25th anniversary of its release, Band on the Run got the deluxe boxed treatment. The original album itself was remastered yet again, the sound improved only slightly over previous...
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Place on Earth: Greatest HitsArtist: Belinda Carlisle
Community Score: 10.00
U2 did it; so did George Michael. Who is to say that Belinda Carlisle can't release a two-disc set (despite having already released a greatest hits CD)? And who would have known back in the early '80s that Carlisle, as the punk-pop lead singer of the Go-Gos, would go on to be the underappreciated queen of catchy hooks for two decades? Every song...
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