Track Listing

1. Summer Of '69
2. Straight From The Heart
3. It's Only Love - Adams, Bryan & Tina Turner
4. Can't Stop This Thing We Started
5. Do I Have To Say The Words
6. This Time
7. Run To You
8. Heaven
9. Cuts Like A Knife
10. Everything I Do I Do It For You
11. Somebody
12. Kids Wanna Rock
13. Heat Of The Night
14. Please Forgive Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7431 in Music
• Released on: 1993-11-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
So Far So Good offers up 13 of his previous hits plus a new song, "Please Forgive Me", a gooey, Michael Bolton-like ballad. The album starts out with "Summer of 69", the appealing autobiographical song about the 10-year-old Adams learning to play his first guitar in Ontario, and includes "(Everything I Do) I Do for You", the synth-laced ballad that wound up in the Guinness Book of World Records after topping the British singles charts for 16 weeks. With its over-the-top, gravelly vocals, So Far So Good reminds one of Rod Stewart's 1980s work when he was coasting on past achievements. Unfortunately, Adams has never had a period like Stewart's glory years in the 1970s. --Geoffrey Himes

CD Description
By 1993, when Bryan Adams released his first collection of greatest hits, he had enjoyed 12 years in the music businessduring a span that had seen hot trends like new wave and late '80s hair metal fall by the wayside. Adams managed to stay popular by sticking with an ear-pleasing brand of rock & roll that veered between edgy, bar-band style riff rock to more earnest, American-style roots rock in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger.
SO FAR SO GOOD gathers allthe essential Adams tracks from his hugely popular '80s albums. This set of melodic rockers, including "Run to You", "This Time" "Kids Wanna Rock", and "Summer of '69" will be familiar to anyone who was near an FM radio during the era. Adams is a likeable rebel, a tough and tender troubadour singing songs that may not have been taken seriously by rock critics, but which nevertheless had resonance for millions of people around the world. Between ballads like "Heaven" and "Everything I Do (I Do it for You") and the chest-thumping frat-guy rock of "Somebody", this set shows the immense range of one of Canada's most popular musicians.

Customer Reviews

Apart from having 2 ballads at the end . . .
. . . it's still worth 5 stars. A good collection of Mr Adams stuff, before he really lost the plot, musically.

Starting off with "Summer of '69" and moving on through "It's Only Love" with Tina Turner, "Run To You", "Cut's Like A Knife" & "Kids Wanna Rock", things are on a consistant high.

In truth the slow stuff doesn't spoil things. The reason being that he does them so well. Despite being at number one for 3 or 4 years(!) "(Everything I Do) I Do It FOr You" is an excellant song. "Heat OF The Night" is full of enough emotion to stand on it's feet and "Please Forgive Me" brings things to a pleasing close.

Much better than the next Best Of, and well worth singing along to at the top of your voice, in an open car(!)

A MUST FOR EVERY CD COLLECTION!
What an album. One of the best EVER! All the songs are brilliant including Run to You and Summer of 69. Brings back memories of my youthful days when all me and mates played was this album. You are missing a hell of an album if you haven't got it in your collection. BUY IT.

This is without dout the best album ever produced
This album is a must for any rock fan or even anone who is into lovesongs, this album has to be #1 in anyones collection. it's hilights are summer of 69, everything i do,kids wanna rock, the list is endless, this album has no poor songs, absolutly fantastic a credit to the best musician of all time