Shaun Cassidy - Shaun Cassidy Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Still silly over Shaun
Hit: 3 Stars
I love this cd. I was just listening to it again last night and as I was enjoying every song now, I was also enjoying the memory of each song back in the day. I only wish the songs Holiday ( from Shaun's self-titled album) , Audrey and Walk Away ( from Born To Late ), and Our Night ( from Under Wraps ) were here also. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a Shaun Cassidy Greatest Hits Vol. 2. P.S. Lets have a Rex Smith Greatest Hits Vol 1. while were at it. ;-)Free Music Review: Something's Missing
Hit: 3 Stars
Whew! I had to hunt for a minute or two to find someone else who wanted "Midnight Sun" to be on this collection. For a while, I was afraid I was the only one. I was not a serious Shaun Cassidy fan, but for some reason I had the 45 with that song on it. It's beautiful! Rest of the disc be whacked, if that had been on it, I'd have spent the bucks. I think I'll go search for that 45 . . .Free Music Review: Shaun Cassidy Greatest Hits
Hit: 3 Stars
This was a gift from my daughters. It was fun to listen to listen too.Free Music Review: That's not rock and roll anymore...
Hit: 2 Stars
Let me start off by saying that I was a Shaun Cassidy fan when I was about 10, partly because I could sing his stuff back then and people thought I sounded like him. I'll also admit that I didn't expect much when I bought this 14-year-old CD from Virgin Records for $5, and that I was buying it primarily because nothing else of his is on CD, and my LPs of his albums are buried in my garage.
I definitely got my money's worth. Since $5 is about 25 percent of what the average CD costs these days, I should be happy if I liked one-fourth of the songs. Shaun scores here: his only real hits -- "Da Doo Ron Ron," "That's Rock and Roll," and "Hey Deanie" -- are on the disc, minus the crackle and pops from my old records. Yay. (Although I have to note that the sound quality on this disc is clean, but so-so: turn your volume up a notch higher than you normally would as you listen to this.)
It's the rest of the disc that I'm bummed about. The other nine cuts aren't truly "Greatest Hits," but mostly songs Shaun selected for the album because they were personal favorites. Yeah, I can agree with the Brian Wilson-penned "It's Like Heaven." Somewhere I have a tape of me singing this number in a talent show when I was about 11 or 12, before my voice changed. And his remake of The Lovin' Spoonful's "Do You Believe in Magic" -- his last Top 40 hit in the U.S. -- and "Teen Dream" (from "Born Late") and "Hard Love" (from the underrated "Under Wraps") are decent numbers that fit the pop flavor of the later 1970s. Yeah, this stuff's all cool.
The let-down is with the second half of the disc, particularly the final four songs. These come from Shaun's final two albums -- "Room Service" in 1979, and "Wasp" from 1980 -- which were commercial disasters. I don't own either of these albums (thank God!), and if these songs are any indication of what each album held, my ears are lucky indeed.
Absolute bottom of the barrel: the final cut, Shaun's horrendous remake of "Once Bitten, Twice Shy," which bears absolutely no resemblance to the versions most of the world knows (Ian Hunter and Great White, you can rest easy). Thank Todd Rundgren for that -- he reworked this song (and the others on "Wasp") in an effort to give Shaun a tougher sound heading out of the disco era. But Shaun Cassidy is forever a bubble gum pop icon, and heavier, acid rock-like music just doesn't stick.
If you catch this album in the bargain bin and remember to program only the first 6 or 7 tracks in your player, you'll have a bouncy trip down memory lane. Otherwise, wait for the inevitable release of his debut and "Born Late" on a combined CD.
Free Music Review: Poorly Packaged, Cheap Compilation
Hit: 2 Stars
There is so much really bad media available these days (yes you can get T.J. Hooker on DVD), it's hard to believe that SOMEONE hasn't remastered and released Shaun Cassidy's original albums on CD. No, it wasn't great stuff, but there was always a track or two or four, that were first-rate pop.
In a world where The Brady Bunch CDs are available, how can it be that Shaun Cassidy's are not?
This collection contains all his hits (all 4 of them) and a few decent album tracks but it's missing a lot of good material.