Track Listing

1. Total Eclipse Of The Heart
2. Faster Than The Speed Of Night
3. Have You Ever Seen The Rain
4. If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man)
5. Here She Comes
6. Loving You's A Dirty Job But Someone's Got To Do It
7. Getting So Excited
8. Save Up All Your Tears
9. Best
10. Holding Out For A Hero
11. Married Men
12. Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love)
13. More Than A Lover
14. Don't Turn Around
15. Lovers Again
16. Lost In France
17. It's A Heartache
18. To Love Somebody

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2032 in Music
• Released on: 2004-07-26
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

A Fine Collection Of Bonnie's Music!
This CD is a good introduction to anyone who is looking for an overview of the music of Bonnie Tyler. "The Best" focuses mainly of her CBS recordings in the mid 80s when she had huge hits with "Total Eclipse Of The Heart", "Holding Out For A Hero", "Faster Than The Speed Of Night" and "Have You Ever Seen The Rain". Here you will also find choice album tracks, a hit duet with Shaken Stevens and four of her early hits, "Lost In France", "More Than A Lover", "It's A Heartache" and "Married Men".
If you like good rock music sung by a powerful female artist or a diehard Bonnie fan or simply as casual admirer, this CD is well worthing having even though there a better compilations out there such as "Total Eclipse -The Anthology".

Big Rock Sound
Bonnie Tyler had hits with Lost In France and It's A Heartache before she teamed up with Jim Steinman and created the album Faster Than The Speed Of Night which was a sort of female version of Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell. The album was a megahit on both sides of the Atlantic and gave her top 5 hits in the form of Total Eclipse Of The Heart and the title track.

Her husky voice is backed by powerful rock instrumentation, rolling, pounding drums, shimmering keyboards and blistering guitar riffs. This comprehensive Best Of collection includes her other great hit Holding Out For A Hero plus a stunning version of Have You Ever Seen The Rain and a duet with Shakin' Stevens.

The tracks from Faster Than The Speed Of Night are exuberant and theatrical, but her sensitive side is also displayed here on songs like the aforementioned Lost In France. If you love the hook-filled big rock sound of artists like Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Meat Loaf, Ellen Foley, Tina Turner or Jim Steinman, you'll love this album.

All the obvious tracks
This compilation focuses on Bonnie's eighties music recorded for CBS, but her four UK hits for RCA (Lost in France, More than a love, It's a heartache, Married men) are also included under license. So this collection contains all of Bonnie's UK hits, plus a selection of her other tracks from the eighties.

Apart from the RCA hits already mentioned (two of which made the UK top ten), Bonnie's other UK hits to be found here are Total eclipse of the heart (a number one hit), A rocking good way (a top five hit duet with Shaking Stevens), Holding out for a hero (a number two hit) and three minor hits, these being Have you ever seen the rain (a cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic), Faster than the speed of night and Loving you is a dirty job.

Also here is Bonnie's original recording of The best. Generally known as Simply the best, it completely missed the charts, but Tina Turner covered the song a year later and had a major international hit with it. Another song that you may be familiar with is To love somebody. Originally written and recorded by the Bee Gees, the song has been a hit for several different singers around the world. Nina Simone (in 1969) and Jimmy Somerville (in 1990) both took it into the UK top ten.

There are many Bonnie Tyler compilations to choose from. I wouldn't describe this as the strongest but it contains all the essential tracks that most people expect and it is reasonably priced.