Olivia Newton-John - Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971-1992
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Free Music Review: An exellent introduction, but not an essentials collection.
Hit: 5 Stars
The biggest problem with Olivia Newton-John's catalog is out of the albums are out of print. Only two of the nine albums, not including soundtrack, from the pre-Physical period are still available on American catalogs. BACK TO BASICS gives us the golden nuggets from Olivia's career. Most of the biggest hits of Olivia's catalog are included "Physical", "You're The One That I Want", "Magic", "Have You Never Been Mellow", and "I Honestly Love You" are included. Unfortunately, BACK TO BASICS is not an essentials collection due to the fact that many major hits "Let Me Be There" and "Make A Move On Me" and important songs "If Not For You" are not included. In order to make the album a true retrospective collection you would need songs that demonstrated where Olivia was at the time "Come On Over" is every bit as important a song in her catalog as "Sam". Impressive performances like "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" and "Suddenly" (a duet with Cliff Richard from XANADU) are overlooked. In order to make it a complete package there should have been at least one song from each album present. The four new songs belong on this package. "Deeper Than A River" is beautifully produced and arranged and Olivia's voice is magnificent. "Not Gonna Be The One" has classic vocal styles and is sung by a musical master. "I Want To Be Wanted" is a vocal performance equal to many f her best love songs, you can hear the emotion in her voice. "I Need Love" is a revival of her days of PHYSICAL, TOTALLY HOT, and SOUL KISS. "Twist Of Fate", "Deeper Than The Night", and "Summer Nights" make their first apperances on American Hits albums. BACK TO BASICS is the perfect collection for Olivia introduction because it shows how varied her career is. For longtime fans, its a good collection, but the original Austrailan versions are ore comprehensive and complete.-MATT COKERFree Music Review: AN ESSENTIAL RETROSPECTIVE!
Hit: 5 Stars
nowadays, an album released in one country could omit or add tracks when released in other countries. luckily, "olivia newton-john's back to basics: the essential collection" was released in the philippines with 20 tracks! the cd is made in germany and the tracks are:
01. if not for you
02. banks of the ohio
03. what is life
04. take me home country roads
05. honestly love you
06. haveyou never been mellow
07. sam
08. you're the one that i want
09. hopelessly devoted to you
10. summer nights
11. a little more love
12. xanadu
13. magic
14. suddenly
15. physical
16. the rumour
17. not gonna be the one
18. i need love
19. i want to be wanted
20. deeper than a river
the tracks seemed chronological as the albums where the tracks came from are featured in the sleeve cover. all the new tracks are tucked in the end. reading the reviews of fellow amazon.com customers, complaining about the missing tracks, i feel sorry that they were not able to get the european version.
for a more comprehensive track listing, "gold" which is a 2-disc greatest hits was also released. you may grab that instead of this collection.
in brief, this essential collection is really great and a amazing retrospect of olivia's multi-platimum career!
Free Music Review: Great One Disc Compilation of ONJ's work and Surprisingly Great Sound!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have to say that for an unremastered album, the sound quality of this cd is remarkably good! I can only imagine how much better this would be if they would remaster it and make this a 20 track collection as I agree with most of the other reviewers here that some truly essential tracks are missing. That, I suppose, is inevitable given the volume of ONJ's work and the ability to only put so many tracks on one disc. Which is why I'm more forgiving of this version of her best of tracks and I'm going to say that the tracks here are a very good selection by themselves and there are 4 new tracks as well. ONJ has been very lucky in that she has had great songwriters write for here like John Farrar and great producers as well like David Foster enhancing her sound. There really isn't a weak track here and my favourites that are real gems of songwriting and performance are "Magic" (the great guitar harmonics still gives me goosebumps everytime), "A Little More Love" (one of the best bass lines ever composed) "Sam" (a great love song and written by one of the original members of the Shadows!)"Have You Never Been Mellow" and "I Honestly Love You" This is a very good ONJ compilation and for the price, 17 great track selections and surprisingly good sound quality a great bargain indeed. Highly recommended.Free Music Review: A great slow-dance album!
Hit: 5 Stars
[One CD, with a running time of 60:42.] This is a collection of seventeen songs by the talented Olivia Newton-John. Thirteen are old favorites, and four are brand-new songs (Deeper Than A River, Not Gonna Be The One, I Want To Be Wanted, and I Need Love). This album was released to relaunch Olivia's career, but a bout with breast cancer cut the tour short (thankfully Olivia has overcome the cancer).When my wife gave me this CD, I was disappointed that some of my favorites were not included. However, listening to this wonderful album showed me that it is different than I expected. This is a wonderful collection of songs to slow-dance to - A Little More Love being always great for this, and I Honestly Love You being the best! Summer Nights is a little too fast for slow-dancing, but it is a fun tune to dance to anyway.
My little kids actually enjoy watching us dance to this CD. So, turn the lights down low, pop in this CD, and dance.
Free Music Review: 4 wonderfull new songs,and Olivia's greatest hits
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is fantastic,not only do you get Olivia's greatest hits,but 4 wonderfull new songs.I first heard "I need Love" driving back from Florida.I thought this song was so different,about not having sex untill you truely love someone,and also being worried about Aids.I really believed this record was going to be a huge hit for Olivia.She was ready to tour untill she discovered she had breast cancer."Deeper than a river,"was a hit in the Adult charts,and" Not Gonna Be the one,"that sounds alot like the Bee Gee's, are fantastic new songs also.This one CD has it all,from Olivia's begining when she was into country music,to one of the greatest musicals of all time,"Grease,"to Olivia's biggest hit,"Physical," and these four beutifull new songs.You have to get this CD if your a Olivia Newton John fan.