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Garth Brooks - The Hits Audio CD

A fair review of the Garth Brooks "The Hits" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Garth Brooks reviews here, or go back to the Garth Brooks tabs.

Garth Brooks Band: Garth Brooks
Title: The Hits
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Release Date: 1994-12-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Ain't Goin' Down (Til the Sun Comes Up) 2: Friends in Low Places 3: Callin' Baton Rouge 4: River 5: Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) 6: Thunder Rolls 7: American Honky-Tonk Bar Association 8: If Tomorrow Never Comes 9: Unanswered Prayers 10: Standing Outside the Fire 11: Rodeo 12: What She's Doing Now 13: We Shall Be Free 14: Papa Loved Mama 15: Shameless 16: Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House 17: That Summer 18: Dance

Garth Brooks The Hits
My most favorite Garth CD, have already worn one out, had to replace it
at once.


AMAZING
MOST OF GARTHS BEST SONGS ARE TOGETHER ON ONE ALBUM. GARTH BROOKS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST COUNTRY ARTIST AROUND.


Garth Brooks CD
It was great doing business with you. The item arrived in good time and just as advertized.


TOP NOTCH!

For those of us who listen to Country Music , with the exception of maybe one or two more songs , this Collection is FANTASTIC!.


The Master Of Self-Promotion
His career started out promising enough with his self-titled debut which included two of my personal favorites, "The Dance" and "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old). Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Garth Brooks knew how to sell himself to the masses. " He followed that with the harbinger of things to follow, "No Fences," which included the tune that really put him on the map, the wonderful "Thunder Rolls," and the bar-friendly "Friends In Low Places. " From there, Brooks' tunes took less of a personal and genuine turn and evolved into a hybrid of "what sells the most" and "what sounds most genuine to those outside of Country music. "

Starting with the album, "Ropin' The Wind," Brooks began to crank out commercially successful, yet lyrically insignificant songs like "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" and "Rodeo. " He managed to fire off a couple of solid, meaningful songs like "Standing Outside The Fire" and "River," but most of his songs were fluff like "Ain't Goin' Down (Till The Sun Comes Up. "

All of the aforementioned songs are available on "The Hits. " It, much like every album after his first two, was also created to generate high, fast, and record-setting sales marks by having it put out in limited release. However, it's a very significant album in Country music history since it catalogs the first half of a career full of great promise (songs like "The Dance") and a huge ego (the forced-upon social tune, "We Shall Be Free"). It also signalled a turning point in Brooks' career with the release of even heavier commercial works such as "Fresh Horses" and "Sevens" after "The Hits" hit the store shelves.

Brooks' ego finally caught up with him with the abysmal "Chris Gaines" era. He suffered a huge commercial blow due to this experiment and he has never regained his status as a commercial star. However, this knock to the ego did result in the decent "Scarecrow" album, yet nothing has added up to the success of his pre-"The Hits" albums.

Brooks forever changed the face of Country music. He helped expose the world outside of Country music to great neo-traditional artists such as Alan Jackson and Vince Gill. He also helped pave the way for fluff acts like Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, who've managed to master Brooks' old formula of self-promotion.

From a blah cover like "Shameless" to a wonderful cover of "Callin' Baton Rouge," and every original hit and miss in between, "The Hits" is a crucial album to Country music history since it is a gathering of the best and worst of a true Country "performer" who single-handedly saved and destroyed real Country music.


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