Anthology

Bryan Adams - Anthology

Anthology
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Artist: Bryan Adams
Edition: Music CD
Format: CD+DVD, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-10-18
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Remember
  2. Lonely Nights
  3. Straight from the Heart
  4. Cuts Like a Knife
  5. This Time
  6. Run to You
  7. Somebody
  8. Heaven
  9. Summer of '69
  10. One Night Love Affair
  11. It's Only Love
  12. Heat of the Night
  13. Hearts on Fire
  14. (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
  15. Can't Stop This Thing We Started
  16. There Will Never Be Another Tonight
  17. Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven
  18. The Best of Me
Music CD 2
  1. Please Forgive Me
  2. All for Love
  3. Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
  4. Rock Steady [Live]
  5. The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You
  6. Let's Make a Night to Remember
  7. Star
  8. Back to You [Live]
  9. I'm Ready [Live]
  10. On a Day Like Today
  11. Cloud Number Nine [Chicane Mix]
  12. Here I Am
  13. This Side of Paradise
  14. Why Do You Have to Be So Hard to Love
  15. Open Road
  16. 18 Til I Die [Live]
  17. When You're Gone
  18. So Far So Good

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Free Music Review: Great collection - Nice bang for the buck - 2 discs plus DVD
Hit: 5 Stars

THE BAND: Many band members or guest artists have joined Adams over the years. The main band players being - Bryan Adams (vocals, guitar, bass, piano), Jim Vallance (co-writer, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion), Keith Scott (guitar), Dave Taylor (bass), Brian Stanley (bass), Tommy Mandel (keyboards), Phil Nicholas (keyboards), Robbie King (keyboards), Mickey Curry (drums), Pat Steward (drums). Guest artists have included - Sting (bass, vocals), Mutt Lange (guitar), Tina Turner (vocals), Bonnie Raitt (vocals, guitar - actually, the song is Raitt's song and Adams is just borrowing it), Pam Anderson (vocals... if that's what you call it), and Rod Stewart (vocals).

THE DISCS: (2005) 2 discs clocking in at approximately 154 total minutes (disc-1 at 77:45, disc-2 at 76:32). Included with the discs is a 22-page booklet containing song titles/credits/notes, a 2-page intro, several Bryan Adams photos with band members, what songs came from which albums, and thank you's. Digitally remastered sound. Two versions of this release are available. The U.S. version has the 2 music compact discs (only). The U.K. version contains a bonus DVD of Adams in a 2005 concert recorded in Lisboa, Portugal (22 songs, 105 minutes). Label - A&M Records.

ALBUM REPRESENTATION: Bryan Adams/Debut (1 song); You Want It, You Got It (1); Cuts Like A Knife (3); Reckless (6); Into The Fire (2); Waking Up The Neighbors (4); So Far So Good (1); 18 Til I Die (4); Unplugged (2); On A Day Like Today (2); The Best Of Me (2); Room Service (3); Movie Soundtracks (2); Bonnie Raitt's Road Tested/Live (1); Unreleased (2).

COMMENTS: Canadian born (Kingston, Ontario) Bryan Adams was biggest back in the early to mid 80's. He had a string of hits starting with his "Lonely Nights" from the "You Want It, You Got It" album (1980). Adams became a household name with "Cuts Like A Knife" (1983 - 4 hits), and reached global stardom with "Reckless" (1984 - 6 Top 40 hits and selling 5+ million units). Adams had a string of Top 10 charting albums with "Cuts Like A Knife", "Reckless", "Into The Fire", "Waking Up The Neighbors" and the compilation "So Far So Good". The standard rockers are here - "Lonely Nights", "Cuts Like A Knife", "This Time", "Run To You", "Somebody", "Summer Of '69", "One Night Love Affair", etc... as well as the sap drenched ballads - "Straight From The heart", "Heaven", "(Everything I Do) I Do For You", "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman", etc. For me, Adams was always a middle of the road rocker (one of those musicians that back in your school days you never admitted you really liked for fear he wasn't cool enough). He could certainly rock, but his success with the ballad(s) made him soft in my eyes. Not to take anything away from him though... he's road tested and had much staying power and success over the past 25 years... not to mention writing and playing some incredibly catchy melodies. Being a much bigger fan of his 80's material, I truly believe his best music (outside of a scattered hit here and there) is well behind him. Disc 1 sees Adams in his glory years - all studio tracks from 1980 through 1991. Disc 2 is an oddball collection of his later era hits, movie soundtrack songs ("Spirit - Stallion Of The Cimarron" and "Three Musketeers"), 4 live tunes, and 2 unreleased songs. The good - the live "Unplugged" songs are excellent (especially "I'm Ready" with the orchestra behind him); digitally remastered sound is sharp; and most importantly so many great tunes all in one place. The bad - many casual fans will listen to disc-1 much more than disc-2... not that that's a bad thing, but disc-2 is so up and down; "Cuts Like A Knife" (with 3 tunes) and "Into The Fire" (with 2) are severely under represented here... I would've liked to see at least 1-2 more songs here from each; the duet with Pam Anderson, "When You're Gone", is a joke and borderline embarrassment... really - this should have stayed in the vault... better yet burned to a crisp and then shot up into outer-space with no chance of return. The DVD is a true bonus - excellent sound, lots of good songs, but often times gritty film presentation (more so in the dark lit spots). Overall a great collection and this "Anthology" should replace ANY other Bryan Adams compilation you have (4.5 stars).
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