Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
2. A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
3. Stand By Me - Ben E King
4. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
5. Space Oddity - David Bowie
6. House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals
7. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers
8. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
9. Dancing Queen - Abba
10. Heart Of Glass - Blondie
11. Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
12. I'm A Believer - The Monkees
13. The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
14. Baby Love - The Supremes
15. Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
16. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
17. Get It On - T-Rex
18. Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
19. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
20. Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
21. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon And Garfunkel
22. Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

Disc 2:

1. Every Breath You Take - The Police
2. Nothing Compares To You - Sinead O'Connor
3. The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
4. Millennium - Robbie Williams
5. Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
6. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers
7. Praise You - Fat Boy Slim
8. Firestarter - Prodigy
9. Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
10. Going Underground - The Jam
11. House Of Fun - Madness
12. Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
13. Don't You Want Me - Human League
14. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
15. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
16. Ghost Town - Specials
17. Gangster's Paradise - Coolio
18. No Matter What - Boyzone
19. Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
20. Groovejet - Spiller

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67426 in Music
• Released on: 2001-01-08
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

All Great! (Almost. The Other Songs Make It Up...)
Thsi is a great CD that has been throguh my player many times. Every home should have one. There are tracks on here for the whole family; my Mum can sing along to The Monkees I'm A Believer, my dad can moan along to David Bowie's Space Oddity and my brother can, erm, rap, to Coolio's Gansta Paradise. I have very diverse music tastes, and almost every song I play I can sing-a-long to and enjoy. The first disc is brilliant, and I love nearly every song on it. There is a lot of good Motown and this disc comprises of really good 70's/60's/50's stuff. The second disc is the eighties and nineties, with a load of great eighties hits in the middle, including The Clash, The Jam, The Specials and the amazing Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Admittedly, there is some junk on there, including Groovejet and Boyzone. They are not pure classics. But the rest is so good and so all-round appealing that the rest of the discs make up for it. Just a shame that there aren't all hundred, that Lennon and that the Beatles aren't on their. They are pure hits. Adnd Otis Reading, but that's just a personal preference. Great.

The ultimate CD - every home should have one!
This is perhaps the greatest CD ever released. It crosses many genres, with something for everyone. Where else would you find Queen, Abba, Marvin Gaye, Louis Armstrong, Robbie Williams, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, Clash, The Specials, Coolio, Boyzone and, of course the one song from 2000 that was included in the showing: Spiller's fabulous Groovejet. I happen to like every song here, and if you buy a copy I can guarantee everyone in your house will like one song. It's a good guide for the "youth of today" as to what good "oldies" music is. And the adults may have always wanted to purchase some of these but have never found time, and in addition, this album is valuable for replacing the old vinyl albums you might have which don't play anymore. Every song is a classic. There are many omissions of course: I hope Virgin decide to bring out a 2nd Volume perhaps? So here it is, the ultimate compilation, ever - the sound of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and THAT track from 2000, which will live forever. Why does it feel so good?

It's great!
Why is everyone critiscing it? The songs on it are great - even Spiller i like although why a year 2000 song should make it onto the 100 greatest singles ever i don't know. I'm 14 too and I like it - you can't imagine that the greatest singles of all time are all ones that the same person likes, can you? and kate bush was on the programme! as for only having 42 songs - do you want to pay more? and some songs eg imagine by john lennon are not allowed to be put on compilations - the beatles have never had songs on compilations. The album has songs from every decade which since singles began, which is how it should be. If you don't like one or two of them then so what? you'll never like all the songs on a compilation album. i highly recommend this to anyone.