Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Closest Thing To Crazy
2. Nine Million Bicycles
3. What A Wonderful World
4. If You Were A Sailboat
5. Piece By Piece
6. Call Off The Search
7. On The Road Again
8. Mary Pickford
9. Spider's Web
10. Thank You Stars
11. I Cried For You
12. Crawling Up A Hill
13. Tiger In the Night
14. When You Taught Me How To Dance
15. Two Bare Feet
16. Toy Collection
17. Somewhere In The Same Hotel

Disc 2:

1. A 90 minute DVD - The Arena Tour 2008, Live from Rotterdam
2. Behind The Screens - a short film about the preparation and design of the tour production.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #891 in Music
• Released on: 2008-10-27
• Number of discs: 2
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .42 pounds

CD Description
Since finding fame with her debut album 'Call Off The Search' in 2004, Georgian-born singer/songwriter Katie Melua has enjoyed popularity thanks to her blend of easy-listening popand slightly soulful rock. This collection brings together some of the most successful singles and album tracks from across her career, the most notable including 'The Closest Thing To Crazy', 'If You Were A Sailboat' and the posthumous duet with Eva Cassidy, 'What A Wonderful World'. Also includedare three new tracks, as well as a DVD capturing an entire concert staged in Rotterdam in 2008.

Customer Reviews

Utter Brilliance!
With all that this outstanding artist has achieved it is difficult to believe that she still only 24!

This CD contains Katie's best known songs including, "Closest Thing to Crazy", and "Nine Million Bicycles" as well as a selection of the best of her first three albums. However, even if you have the other albums, the CD is worth buying for the three new tracks;

"Two Bare Feet" is a catchy jazzy number and "Somewhere in the Same Hotel" is laid back and soothing. However the best of the new tracks for me is. "Toy Collection", written by Katie herself with a slight folky and haunting sound to it which again shows her outstanding songwriting ability which is at least as good if not better than her manager Mike Batt.

The cherry on the top however is the 90 minute DVD of Katie's concert in Rotterdam recorded on her current world tour. Here, Katie demonstrates her natural live performing ability. She opens completely on her own with just a guitar and piano on stage for the first two numbers, flawlessly delivered before her top quality band makes it's entrance.

Katie's stage presence shines throughout. Her natural charm and warmth is evident in the way she efforflessly chats to the audience between numbers. Rather than merely performing the songs e

Katie at her best!
A Collection after just three albums, some of you might think it's too soon... But actually, there are some great song missing! And that's not because of bad choices, because all songs here are masterpieces!
For those who don't have the albums, it's a great opportunity to discover the magical voice of Katie Melua.
For those who already have them, there are three new wonderful songs, a bluesy one with "Somewhere in The Same Hotel", a more catchy with "Two Bare Feet", and an undescribable "Toy Collection". There are also two released songs but not on the albums, "What A Wonderful World", the impossible duet with Eva Cassidy, and "When You Taught Me How To Dance", from the soundtrack of "Miss Potter", which are also worth the purchase of the Collection.

Moreover, there is the DVD with the Rotterdam concert, which should end up convincing you, or re-live an unforgettable evening if you went to a concert of the Pictures Tour.

To sum up, a must have for everyone!

Track list for the live DVD
I can't add much to the other reviews other than say what a great purchase this set is from Katie. A selection of her best tracks, three great new songs, two songs not on her standard albums and the fantastic live Rotterdam DVD where Katies 2008 live set can be relived in all its glory, complete with between songs chat. For those interested, these are the live songs on the DVD :-

1. Piece by piece
2. I do believe in love
3. My aphrodisiac is you
4. Crawling up a hill
5. Mary Pickford
6. Blues in the Night
7. If you were a Sailboat
8. Ghost Town
9. Thank you, Stars
10. Perfect Circle
11. What I miss about you
12. Spiders Web
13. If the lights go out
14. Scary Films
15. Spellbound
16. Mockingbird Song
17. The closest thing to Crazy
18. Nine Million Bicycles

19. On the Road again
20. Kozmic Blues
21. I cried for you