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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Commodores
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Track Listing
- Sweet Love
- Just to Be Close to You
- Easy
- Brick House
- Three Times a Lady
- Sail On
- Still
- Lady (You Bring Me Up)
- Oh No
- Nightshift
- Machine Gun
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #45583 in Music
- Released on: 1999-11-23
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
Customer Reviews
Very Incomplete
The problem with this collection, as with most of the 20th Century Masters series, is that there is so little music on it. What there is, is of a high quality, but there tends to be too much emphasis on Pop Chart status, and too little on what was essential in paving the way to Pop stardom. It seems criminal to me, to leave off "Slippery When Wet" "Fancy Dancer" and "Too Hot To Trot" in a Commodores retrospective. Without the success that those singles contributed to their career, The Commodores wouldn't have been in a position to release ballads like "Easy" "Three Times A Lady" and "Still"! And other ballads ("This Is Your Life" "Just To Be Close To You") would have been nice to have, to illustrate how The Commodores made the gradual change from funkateers to Lionel Richie-dominated balladeers. If you want a more complete picture of the band, I suggest you pick up "Ultimate Collection." For a few dollars more, you'll get a lot more music, and you'll be reminded that "Brick House" was not the only funk classic The Commodores recorded. There is one classic, under-rated cut on this album that is not on the "Ultimate Collection": Lionel's last shining tender ballad ("Oh, No"), before he stepped off for solo stardom.
Sometimes, a little of a good thing is quite enough.
Some are grading this collection down because it contains relatively few tracks in comparison to other "hits" compilations. Frankly, the kitchen sink approach in chronicling a band's progression can be overkill. Unless one is absolutely smitten with a particular artist, eleven tracks is probably plenty. The selections here are appropriate, with some of the pre-Lionel-as-sensitive-frontman gems like "Brick House", as well as the accomplished balladry that followed. Whomever arranged the sequencing on this CD was a bit of a jokester: "Three Times a Lady", the baroque and beautiful wedding-reception standard, is followed by "Sail On", an overt kiss-off. Regardless, the remastering is top-notch; listen to this with headphones on and you can sometimes hear the band members breathing. Casual Commodores fans will probably find eleven solid songs to be quite enough, although they might choose to skip back to "Brick House" a few times; it may be the tightest 70s anthem to booty ever recorded.
Nice accompaniment to "The Ultimate Collection"
This collection includes the hits "Sail On" and "Oh No," which were left out of The Ultimate Collection (1997) but should have been on there. The recording quality of the songs shared with The Ultimate Collection is better in all aspects. But, for those who are looking for all the songs on one collection, look at "Anthology."
