Boney M - Boney M - The Greatest Hits
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Artist: Boney MEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
Published: 2002
CD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Daddy Cool
- Rivers of Babylon
- Brown Girl in the Ring
- Ma Baker
- Rasputin
- Sunny
- Belfast
- Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday
- Painter Man
- Gotta Go Home
- Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord
- No Woman, No Cry
- El Lute
- Nightflight to Venus
- I'm Born Again
- My Friend Jack
- Daddy Cool Remix 2001
- Megamix
Free Music Notes for Boney M - The Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: Fun Euro-disco music of the late seventies
Hit: 5 Stars
Boney M's first nine hit singles all made the UK top ten with one of them going to number one. Daddy cool entered the UK charts at the end of 1976, so becoming the first of four UK top ten hits in 1977, the others being Sunny (a cover of the Bobby Hebb sixties classic), Ma Baker (about a Chicago gangster) and Belfast (about the people of Northern Ireland). It might be interesting to hear Ma Baker and Belfast stripped down and performed in a simpler setting - this would highlight what the songs are about. As the records are with the rhythmic disco beat, it's hard to take the lyrics seriously.
1978 proved to be even better. They released an album, Night flight to Venus, which was popular all over Europe and which remains distinctive covers one of the finest disco albums ever recorded. It included four tracks that, released as singles, became huge UK hits for them - and the other tracks were also of a high quality. The title track (included here) was not released as a UK single but must surely have been considered for such a release.
The first single off Night flight to Venus was Rivers of Babylon, a cover of a reggae song from the sixties that was originally recorded by the Melodians. It spent five weeks at number one in the UK before beginning a slow decline. Just when it looked as if it was near to dropping out of the charts (over three months after its original release), the record was flipped and its B-side, Brown girl in the ring, was heavily promoted. The record climbed the charts again and eventually re-entered the top five. By the time the record finally dropped out of the UK chart, it had been there for forty weeks.
While the above double-sided single was still in the charts, Boney M released Rasputin, which made number two in the UK, followed by a Christmas single (not taken from the album), which made number one in the UK. An adaptation of the Harry Belafonte classic (Mary's boy child), their version (Mary's boy child - Oh my Lord) completed a very successful year for Boney M.
For their next single, Boney M returned to Night flight to Venus, this time selecting Painter man. It only just made the top ten but, being released more than a year after the album from which it came, I suspect that a lot of people already had the album by then.
One more big hit (Hooray hooray it's a holi-holiday, a top three UK hit) preceded a steady decline as the quality of their songs diminished. Most of them were OK but My friend Jack is, frankly, an embarrassment. Still, you can always skip that track.
Despite My friend Jack, this is a brilliant compilation of an excellent Euro-disco group.
Boney M - The Greatest Hits Poster
The brainchild of producer/songwriter Frank Farian--best known for later coming up with Milli Vanilli--Germany's '70s hit machine Boney M scored a string of disco singles with a strong Caribbean flavor. Granted, it takes an iron will to stomach upbeat numbers about the troubles in "Belfast" or such endearing figures as "Ma Baker" and "Rasputin," but at their best, Farian and the four West Indian session singers he recruited made a great dance-music outfit that was able to give an over-the-top Euro-disco spin to pop nuggets ("Sunny") and infectious originals ("Gotta Go Home"). If you want to send your next '70s-themed party into overdrive, give this 18-track hits collection a try. --Elisabeth VincentelliDance & DJ Music CDs
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