Billy Ocean - Billy Ocean - Greatest Hits
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Artist: Billy OceanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1989-10-04
Music Label: Jive
Soundtracks:
- When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
- Licence To Chill
- Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)
- There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)
- Loverboy
- Suddenly
- Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car
- Love Zone
- Here's To You
- I Sleep Much Better (In Someone Else's Bed)
- The Colour Of Love
- Tear Down These Walls
- Mystery Lady
Free Music Notes for Billy Ocean - Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: A dated childhood memory par excellence
Hit: 1 Stars
As a child and young adult when I tended to believe that all "alternative" music was basically noisy, unlistenable grunge like Nirvana or Everclear or The Presidents Of The USA, the pop songs of my 1980s childhood occupied my attention because they were the most readily available alternative. I used to adore the big hits on "Greatest Hits" and said they were my favourite songs.
Today, however, as an experienced music listener, it is very clear to me that the material here is awfully dated and shallow. The huge beats on "When The Going Gets Tough", which was his only #1 hit, and his second biggest hit "Get Out Of My Dreams" were really catchy and even enchanting to me as a child, but if I listen to them now in the library at Melbourne University they seem awfully dated. The same is true of the earlier "Carribbean Queen", whilst "License To Chill" is even worse in this respect.
The slower material, to which Billy's "big" voice was never suited, comes off as even worse. I always thought "Here's To You" and "Loverboy" were terribly soppy, and it's easy to imagine how I would feel about them nowadays.
This is something I want to note as something I have given up, and it is so dated with its big beat dance track and so soppy on the ballads that one should steer clear of it.
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