Very Best Of

Cher

Cher / Very Best Of
Genre: music4me > Pop > Pop
Format: 2 CD
Released: Tue 3 May 2005
Catalogue Number: WETL460864.2

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Description:
Since it's a cross-licensed, 21-track collection, it stands to reason that Warner Strategic Marketing's 2003 The Very Best of Cher is finally the Cher collection that gets it right, presenting a fully rounded portrait of her long, winding, multi-label career. It's not, but it's closer than any previous collection, eclipsing Hip-O's 2001 The Ultimate Collection by containing hits from every aspect of her career, from Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" to her 1999 comeback, "Believe" and beyond, to the new Rodney Jerkins-produced "A Different Kind of Love Song" (yes, it does feature heavy vocoder work). Where other collections emphasized her '70s hits, this focuses on the Geffen work, which may be appropriate since they rarely appeared on hits compilations before this, along with her late-'90s comeback on Warner. This is all pushed toward the front, taking up the first 11 songs, which, frankly, is infuriating sequencing, especially since it bounces between the Geffen album rock and the post-house, neo-disco of the Warner years. Also, there is simply too much Warner material, given that apart from "Believe" it was entirely too generic and also there weren't any big hits. They nearly knock the collection off track by providing a dead stretch in the middle of the record before it regains momentum with 1979's "Take Me Home" and then more or less works its way back to her beginning. This is a bewildering choice in sequencing, and it hurts the general listenablity of the record; even if all periods are represented and all the big hits are here, the lack of logic leads to a herky-jerky sequencing that is tiring on the ear. That said, this does have all the big hits -- "Believe," "If I Could Turn Back Time," "Just Like Jesse James," "After All," "I Found Someone," "The Shoop Shoop Song," "All I Really Want to Do," "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)," "Half-Breed," and "Gypsies Tramps & Thieves" among them. And even if the presentation leaves a lot to be desired, it's still nice to have all these in one place. [This edition contains bonus tracks.] Stephen Thomas Erlewine.

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  • Weight (g): 107

Track Listing:

Disk 1
1.  Believe
2.  Strong Enough
3.  If I Could Turn Back Time
4.  I Found Someone
5.  When the Devil Calls (LP -
6.  Walking in Memphis
7.  Just Like Jesse James
8.  One By One
9.  Live and Understanding
10.  Save Up All Your Tears
11.  Piu Che Puoi
12.  Love Can Build a Bridge
13.  Take Me Home
14.  Rudy
15.  Bad Love [From Foxes]
16.  When the Money's Gone
17.  All or Nothing
18.  Alive Again
19.  Diffrent Kind of Love Song
Disk 2
20.  Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)
21.  Heart of Stone
22.  Dov'? L'Amore
23.  Music's No Good Without You
24.  Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
25.  Half-Breed
26.  Dark Lady
27.  I Got You Babe
28.  Beat Goes On
29.  Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
30.  Way of Love
31.  All I Really Want to Do
32.  Train of Thought
33.  Cowboy's Work Is Never Done
34.  We All Sleep Alone
35.  Love Hurts
36.  Not Enough Love in the World
37.  Born with the Hunger
38.  After All
39.  All I Ever Need Is You
40.  Baby Don't Go
41.  Dead Ringer for Love
42.  Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

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