Track Listing

1. Fool for Your Loving
2. Don't Break My Heart Again
3. Love Ain't No Stranger
4. Is This Love
5. Now You're Gone (US remix)
6. Give Me All Your Love
7. Ready an' Willing
8. Guilty of Love
9. Would I Lie to You
10. Long Way from Home
11. The Deeper the Love
12. Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
13. Too Many Tears
14. Give Me More Time
15. Standing in the Shadow
16. Here I Go Again
17. Still of the Night

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3657 in Music
• Released on: 2003-03-24
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
An album of two distinct halves, The Best of Whitesnake inevitably but annoyingly jumbles up honest, workmanlike tracks from the pre-1984 blues-rock outfit with transatlantic poodle-rock from a late-80s band that had the same name and same frontman but little in common musically with their previous incarnation. The only track from their first proper studio album Trouble is the subsequent live standard "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" and there's also just one cut from 1978's Lovehunter ("Long Way from Home"). Other highs include "Fool for Your Loving" (Ready an' Willing, 1980) and the sassy boogie of "Would I Lie to You" (Come an' Get It)--exactly what Whitesnake did best. Poodle-power-chord tracks to avoid include "Is This Love" from 1987 and "Now You're Gone" from 1989's even more dire Slip of the Tongue. Significantly, by the time of "Too Many Tears" from 1997's Restless Heart, Coverdale is nostalgically harking back to the band's blues roots: "All I'm asking is where did I go wrong?" he sings. Just listen to this album, David mate, and you'll find out. --Mark Walker

CD Description
'The Best Of Whitesnake' is a collection of songs from the band's most formative years. Gathers together the cream of their 80's efforts such as their two top ten singles 'Here WeGo Again' and 'Is This Love'. Heavy rock tracks sit alongside power ballads and soft metal. Influenced by Led Zeppelin and Dave Coverdale's former band Deep Purple.

Customer Reviews

Could this the best of Whitesnake?
This album may be called "The best of Whitesnake", yet…

Too many songs on this album are from the "American" years and not enough from the "English" years, the real Halcyon days of Whitesnake.

Most of this album is indeed, commercially successful, classic, US hard rock: some great songs, a lot of L.A. mid-eighties style (no need to comment further I suppose… even if the "1987 Whitesnake album rocked in a very Hollywood kind of way!!!)

It is a pity that only a few tracks from the seventies and the very beginning of the eighties are here to demonstrate how brilliant David Coverdale and his dream team (the best line-up according to me included Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Micky Moody, Bernie Mardsen , Neil Murray) were: "Ready 'n' Willing", "Long Way from Home", and the bluesy live version of "Ain't no love in the heart of the city"…

By the way, may I suggest the double live album "Live in the heart of the city", as it is a real eternal classic and provides the true best of Whitesnake?

(for less than 8 pounds as well!!!!!)

Snake Rattle An' Roll
The first thing I would advise you to do is...Ignore the above Amazon review..anyone would think they didn't want you to order the album, that guy needs to be fired..NOW...Anyway, onto the album, I agree that Whitesnake were a band of 2 styles, the blues/rock of the 1st few albums, and the American sounding pomp rock of later years..but this Cd has the very best of both styles, and i think it's a worthy addition to the collection of anyone who calls their self a fan of Whitesnake..buy it.

At last, the BEST of Whitesnake!
Whitesnake have to be one of the most important rock bands of the last two decades, how can they have lasted 25 years and 12 albums and not prduced this record before?? The Greatest hits album of the 90's was total garbage containing pointless remixes and the 'wailing' period of Whitesnake songs. This album is a much truer representation of what the Whitesnake fans see as thier greatest hits.

The songs you would expect are there; A nice remaster of Fool for Your Loving plus Dont Break my Heart Again, Is this Love, R&W, Here I go again, Guilty of Love and Still of the Night all sounding as fantastic as ever (although I always thought 'Is this love', was a bit poofy!)

The great thing about this album is the inclusion of great songs that were not big hits, for example - Standing in the Shadows only made it to no 62 in the UK chart and Long Way from Home only made it to 55 in the UK chart, yet both are superb songs.

The way the album is mixed is nice too, the songs are in no particular order, but follow each other nicely, which is quite rare with compilation albums.

The jewel in the crown has to be the inclusion of the 1978 studio version of 'A'int no love in the Heart of the City', this song just gets you tingling all over everytime you hear it the album is worth buying for this song alone.

All in all, I would say this is one of the best compilation albums I have heard, the subject matter helps a lot! The sleeve is nice colours etc, I think there could have been a bit more information and history about the band.

You are NUTS of you do not buy this album right now, a great introduction to Whitesnake.

BUY,BUY,BUY!!!!!!!