Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Down To Zero
2. True Love
3. Talking To The Wall
4. Show Some Emotion
5. I'm Lucky
6. One More Chance
7. Did I Make You Up
8. All A Woman Needs
9. Square The Circle
10. Somebody Who Loves You
11. It Could Have Been Better
12. Alice
13. No Love
14. Tall In The Saddle
15. Turn Out The Light
16. The Shouting Stage
17. One Night
18. Save Me

Disc 2:

1. My Family
2. City Girl
3. Warm Love
4. The Power Of Dreams
5. Love By You
6. The Weakness In Me
7. More Than One Kind Of Love
8. Love And Affection
9. Rosie
10. Bottom To The Top
11. Drop The Pilot
12. Me Myself I
13. Cool Blue Stole My Heart
14. Water With The Wine
15. Flight Of The Wild Geese
16. Dry Land
17. Always
18. Promise Land
19. Can't Get Over (How I Broke Your Heart)
20. All The Way From America
21. Willow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #122708 in Music
• Released on: 1997-02-10
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Running time: 157 minutes

Customer Reviews

Good collection, but with some deficiencies of presentation
This is a very thorough and comprehensive collection, covering Joan's whole recording career from the early 1970s to the mid 90s, and running to over 2.5 hours overall. The style and production sound varies throughout, reflecting Joan's evolution as an artist and her changes of musical direction. However, in relation to this, the fact that the tracks are in no kind of chronological order makes listening to the album rather disconcerting, as the style and sound often changes quite noticeably from one track to another. This sense of disorientation is increased by the absence of musician credits on a track by track basis; producer credits are given in small print, but they are hard to follow and the recording dates include some minor errors. There is also no comment from Joan herself, or anyone else for that matter, explaining why the particular tracks were chosen; the only background information is a fairly superficial account of her career. All this perhaps suggests that Joan was not actively involved in putting this compilation together. So whilst the music is excellent, the information accompanying it is rather sparse. Despite the above criticisms, however, it's ultimately the music that counts, and I feel this deserves full marks as a comprehensive overview of Joan's work. But whilst her classic eponymous album from 1976 is well represented here, that record is so good that I consider it an essential accompaniment to this collection.