Track Listing

1. Wonderful Life
2. Paradise
3. Big one
4. Now you're gone
5. All we need is the money
6. Let me watch you make love
7. She's my best friend
8. Sweetest smile
9. Finder
10. It's not over yet
11. Hey I was right you were wrong
12. Ravel in the rain
13. Everything is coming up roses
14. You don't always do what is best for you
15. You're a big girl now
16. Here it comes again
17. I just grew tired
18. Just making memories

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11834 in Music
• Released on: 2000-04-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 77 minutes

Customer Reviews

A CD crammed to the hilt with fine music!
This CD has so many good tracks on it that I don't know where to start. Basically Spectrum have taken the cream of Black's back catalogue and spread them lavishly over all 70 plus minutes on this CD. An absolute must for anyone who wants to hear great tunes, great songs and great entertainment. A highly polished effort.

Melancholy pop
The 90s phenomenon Colin Vearncombe who is Black has won many hearts with his talent for wrapping delicious melodies around intriguing little narratives, as in Wonderful Life, The Big One and You Don't Always Do (What's Best For You). The dreamy Wonderful Life has even been used in a TV commercial for a famous brand of chocolates. Vearncombe specialises in understatement, and what may appear bland at first listen soon turns addictive. There is moreover a moving type of melancholy undertone to his voice and his tunes that stays with you long after the last notes have died down. The Collection is a great album but I miss the songs Learning How To Hate and Sweet Breath Of Your Rapture from his 3rd album "Black" plus Fly Up To The Moon, the soaring duet with Sam Brown. I hope to see those reissued on a proper Best Of or Greatest Hits compilation someday.

Black
"How quick the sun can, drop awayyyyyyyyyyyyeaeaeaeaeae and now my bitter hands, cradle broken glass, of what was everything?"