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The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
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Audio CD, Extra tracks, Import, January 13, 2008
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Track Listings
1 | When Will I Be Loved |
2 | Heat Wave |
3 | You're No Good |
4 | It's So Easy |
5 | Blue Bayou |
6 | Just One Look |
7 | Different Drum |
8 | Poor Poor Pitiful Me |
9 | Tracks Of My Tears |
10 | That'll Be The Day |
11 | Ooh Baby Baby |
12 | Long Long Time |
13 | Back In The U.S.A. |
14 | Love Is A Rose |
15 | Hurt So Bad |
16 | Heart Like A Wheel |
17 | Adios |
18 | Somewhere Out There |
19 | Don't Know Much |
20 | All My Life |
21 | Winter Light |
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
It's so easy to fall in love with this Ronstadt retrospective-it's the first to span her whole career on one CD! Among the 1967-1993 Capitol and Elektra/Asylum tracks: her Top 10 hits You're No Good; When Will I Be Loved; Heat Wave; Blue Bayou; It's So Easy , and Ooh Baby Baby plus Just One Look; Adios; Winter Light; Hurt So Bad , and 11 more!
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Linda Ronstadt, who emerged from SoCal's vaunted early-'70s country-folk scene, became the American female rock superstar of the Me Decade. After the initial success of the Stone Poneys' Michael Nesmith-penned "Different Drum," Ronstadt expanded her horizons through interpretations of a long string of successful pop and R&B covers. Along the way she championed emerging songwriters like Warren Zevon ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me") and contemporary favorites like Neil Young ("Love Is a Rose") in the bargain. As the formula waned with the changing tastes of the '80s, she briefly turned to new wave before stepping boldly back to the pop standards of the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Unfortunately, this collection inexplicably skips over that three-album collaboration with arranger-conductor Nelson Riddle, a body of work that presaged the 1990s' lounge-pop revival by a full decade--and outclassed it by miles. It also eschews a compelling contemporary Latin chapter of her career in favor of her winning collaborations with Aaron Neville ("Don't Know Much" and "All My Life") and less successful AC fodder like "Winter Light" and "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram. A good primer to Ronstadt's immense vocal talents and recording history, but one that's flawed by some crucial missing chapters. --Jerry McCulley
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.75 x 0.45 inches; 3.4 ounces
- Manufacturer : Elektra
- Date First Available : December 12, 2006
- Label : Elektra
- ASIN : B00006J424
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,459 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #228 in Contemporary Folk (CDs & Vinyl)
- #407 in Country Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #484 in Soft Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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All of her seminal work is included here for you casual enjoyment, from "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" to "When Will I Be Loved", from "You're No Good" to "It's So Easy", and all the others, including "Blue Bayou", Long, Long Time", "That'll Be The Day", "Love Is A Rose", "Different Drum", "Heat Wave", and many others. This album gives us all of Linda's formidable hits, all here in a definitive and fairly comprehensive play list that anyone would want to have to ensure an accurate representation of her volumes of work, from dozens of hit albums recorded and released over more twenty years of popular work. This is an essential album for your collection, and one I have both in the house and in the car. For easy listening as I zoom down the highway. Other than the Beach Boys, on the one hand, or Jackson Browne on the other, nobody articulates the southern California folk rock style as well or as consistently as Linda Ronstadt, the little woman with the big, big voice. Enjoy!
Ms Ronstadt fully deserves all the accolades she has received, as the listener to this album will agree. It is a must for any Linda Ronstadt fan, young or old.
Top reviews from other countries
Different Drum aus den 60ern, über Hits wie You re no good, Blue Bayou und It s so easy. Unvergleichlich die Balladen Long Long Time, Heart like a wheel und
last but not least The Blue Train. Die CD enthält auch ein kleines Booklet mit vielen Fotos. Diese CD ist für die Fans der Westcoast-Queen ein Muss.
音質もリマスター化ですごく良くなっていて、コーラス・ギターワーク・ドラムのタム音などはっきり分離して聞こえるようになりました。リンダの歌唱力のすごさも改めて感じることができます。
各曲の収録アルバム名を書いておきます。(但し、18曲目はシングルのみ)
1. When Will I Be Loved [Heart Like A Wheel'74]
2. Heat Wave [Prisoner In Disguise'76]
3. You're No Good [Heart Like A Wheel'74]
4. It's So Easy [Simple Dreams'77]
5. Blue Bayou [Simple Dreams'77]
6. Just One Look [Living In The USA'78]
7. Different Drum [The Stone Poneys/Evergreen'67]
8. Poor Poor Pitiful Me [Simple Dreams'77]
9. Tracks Of My Tears [Prisoner In Disguise'76]
10. That'll Be The Day [Hasten Down THe Wind'76]
11. Ooh Baby Baby [Living In The USA'78]
12. Long Long Time [Silk Purse'70]
13. Back In The U.S.A. [Living In The USA'78]
14. Love Is A Rose [Prisoner In Disguise'76]
15. Hurt So Bad [Mad Love'80]
16. Heart Is Like A Wheel [Heart Like A Wheel'74]
17. Adios [Cry Like A Rainstorm'89]
18. Somewhere Out There *With James Ingram'86
19. Don't Know Much [Cry Like A Rainstorm'89]
20. All My Life [Cry Like A Rainstorm'89]
21. Winter Light [Winter Light'93]