Music : The Ultimate Collection
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731453056220
Label: Motown
Manufacturer: Motown
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Motown
Release Date: March 25, 1997
Sales Rank: 940
Studio: Motown
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A brave effort at cramming one disc full of Temptations classics, The Ultimate Collection nevertheless makes a couple of puzzling choices. Why, for instance, include "Error of Our Ways," a very minor mid-'90s hit, and ignore "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" or "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)," both number ones from their classic period? Still, for the price, it's hard to argue with. --Rickey Wright
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What a great collection!! The music is fun and uplifting, I enjoy the
vocals and the melody combination on this disc. Many of the songs are in
my record collection of days gone bye. My purchase was prompted when I
watched the movie about the Temptations. As I drive to work I listen to
the Cd everyday!!!! It is great way to start my day!!!!!
Linda Rozner
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I love the CD, but it is inexcusable for not having "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" and "Psychedelic Shack" on it.
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Recently, an Amazon friend reviewed this book. Since I gave up my old vinyl collection, I have not had any Temptations' CDs in my collection. That review just mentioned impelled me to begin adding some of the group's music to the set of CDs that I own.
Just got the CD and is it glorious! Obviously, one CD will not hold all of the best music of this group. However, what appears here is pretty terrific. From 1964, "The Way You Do the Things You Do" and "My Girl"; from 1972, "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)" and, maybe, my all-time favorite work, "Pap Was a Rolling Stone"; from 1994, "Error of Our Ways."
A few examples of their work. . .
The sunny "My Girl." A cheerful instrumental introduction followed by opening lines such as:
"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day;
When it's cold outside, I got the month of May."
Why? "My girl." A nice uptempo, upbeat tune, something that the Temptations could do so well.
Of course, more lugubrious feelings can be elicited as well. Take "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)." The singer speaks of the joy of having a wonderful girl"
". . .I watch her as she passes by.
I say to myself, I'm such a lucky guy.
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true."
But the reality?
"It was just my imagination, running away with me."
Good instrumentals and fine vocal backing. One of the classics ... Read More
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As all of you know, Election Day is fast approaching and I am running for President. This means hard work! But make no mistake- I realize this review will be antiquated in a few weeks so, who really cares? After all, time is swift, and most things will be forgotten eventually (minus, of course, the pens I've created that can write even on the moon, if you should ever visit there).
Well, I am at a whistle stop in Detroit at the current moment (on the caboose of a train, no less), and the crowds are receptive and they are cheering. Mostly, they cheer "Elect Metamorpho and, please, make him stop reviewing on Amazon"! Such adoration brings a tear to my eye (carefully hidden from the press). After all, if they got a whiff of sentimentalism, the papers and newscasts would bray "Seer not fit to Rule! Has Human Emotions"! This could be devastating, especially in politics. Better if I run off with tons of the public money than show emotion. Ah well, it is, after all, the quagmire we all face everyday.
Anyway, this is Motown, and the hard working, blue collar people, need someone to trust and to believe in. They cheer and raise bonfires and pitchforks! I am uncertain as to whether they think I'm Frankenstein or the new Messiah. But, I will get back to you and let you know. (If I'm able, of course).
But, you didn't tune in here to hear my vainglorious aspirations. No. You came here to read a review of The Temptations. And, I don't blame you. Awhile ago, I ... Read More
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The Temptations was the soul band that captured me most in those years when I was entering in my early adolescence. Their sense of dynamical rhythm, their variegated gamut of timbers, imaginative compositions and frenetic proposals really engaged not only me, but besides a vast audience all over the world. So, when they decided to join with the Supremes to create that unforgettable song "I'm going make you love me" - one of the most original soft ballads of 1968 - together with "Sitting on the dock of the bay", "Honey", "Little green apples", "Hey Jude", "Over you", "I say a Little pray for you", "This magic moment", "Promises", "Angel of the morning", "I love how you love me", I`m coming home" and "Release me" - among my affective memory retains - they reached an even major recognition around the world.
But mostly, they knew to readapt themselves as band as any other soul ensemble with three master-songs , "Papa was a rolling Stone", "Psychedelic shack" and "Ball of confusion."
That outburst of igneous creativity was indeed, their golden passport for the immortality, neither more nor less.
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