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Cher - All I Ever Need: The Kapp/MCA Anthology Audio CD

A fair review of the Cher "All I Ever Need: The Kapp/MCA Anthology" 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 Cher reviews here, or go back to the Cher tabs.

Cher Band: Cher
Title: All I Ever Need: The Kapp/MCA Anthology
Rating:
Release Date: 1995-09-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Classified 1a - Cher 2: Real People - Sonny & Cher 3: Somebody - Sonny & Cher 4: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher 5: I Hate to Sleep Alone - Cher 6: When You Find Out Where You're Goin', Let Me Know - Cher 7: Way of Love - Cher 8: All I Ever Need Is You - Sonny & Cher 9: Crystal Clear/Muddy Waters - Sonny & Cher 10: United We Stand - Sonny & Cher 11: Cowboy's Work Is Never Done - Sonny & Cher 12: Living in a House Divided - Cher 13: When You Say Love - Sonny & Cher 14: By Love, I Mean - Sonny & Cher 15: Mama Was a Rock & Roll Singer Papa Used to Write All Her Songs [Single] - Sonny & Cher 16: Greatest Show on Earth [Album Version] - Sonny & Cher 17: Half-Breed - Cher 18: Chastity Sun - Cher 19: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - Cher 20: Dark Lady - Cher 21: Train of Thought - Cher 22: Make the Man Love Me - Cher 23: Rescue Me - Cher 24: Classified 1a - Sonny & Cher 25: What Now, My Love? [Live] - Sonny & Cher 26: Beat Goes On [Live] - Sonny & Cher 27: Once in a Lifetime/More Today Than Yesterday/Got to Get You into ... - Sonny & Cher 28: Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) [Live] - Sonny & Cher 29: Laugh at Me [Live] - Sonny & Cher 30: I Got You Babe [Live] - Sonny & Cher 31: All I Ever Need Is You [Live] - Sonny & Cher 32: I Can See Clearly Now/You've Got a Friend/Where You Lead [Live] - Sonny & Cher 33: You and I [Live] - Sonny & Cher 34: Superstar [Live] - Sonny & Cher 35: Dialogue [Live] - Sonny & Cher 36: You Better Sit Down Kids [Live] - Sonny & Cher 37: Band Introduction/I Got You Babe [Live] - Sonny & Cher 38: Our Last Show [Live] - Sonny & Cher

Selections from two live albums + lots of bonuses
Here they're pictured in all their mid-'70's celebrity glory on the enclosed booklet, and Sonny's in a tux! Worse, many of the songs in their live repertoire are mediocre cover songs ("Once in a Lifetime", "More Today than Yesterday", etc. It was amusing when Cher told Vh1's "Behind the Music" that, before she and Sonny reignited their careers via their hit variety TV show, they were relegated to clubs singing bad cover songs and Son had to wear a tuxedo. ), stuff they should've left behind. Still, the performances (from 1971 and 1973 shows) are fairly priceless, with scripted but still funny put-downs between the couple and Bono obviously in charge. The bonus tracks are odds-n-ends, some of which are worth noting: two versions of their much-maligned Vietnam song "Classified 1A"--Cher's lead vocal and later Sonny's (but where is Cher's B-side from this single, "Don't Put It On Me"?); the haunting "Real People", sung in a rapturously low-key; "Our Last Show", a little-heard Sonny solo track that touches deeply on the past. "Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer" is edited from the LP version (a disappointment), and there are too many tracks from Cher's "Dark Lady" (and not even the best ones, by the way), but this 2-disc package still has much to offer and a very nice booklet with photos and gossip. A-.


SONNY AND CHER ANTHOLOGY
Ironically,Classified 1A finally saw the light of day after being obscured for so long. This cd is great for those who remember them as the adult contemporaries than the 60's popsters. Another factor,is how that song is aself prophecy by Bono himself. It's very haunting and disturbing. If only MCA wuld release their ALL I EVER NEED IS YOU,both LIVE albums and Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer and any other unreleased material they may have had.


Cher has a way!
The vocal blendind of Sonny and Cher is only surpassed by Cher's solo songs. This double album contains the great songs you have heard before, and the songs you have never heard, but will be singing along to in no time. Titles like "Living in a House Divided" and "Classified 1A" will keep this disc in your player all day-every day. Bonus attraction--the second disc being a live recording of Sonny and Cher, featuring songs that you will love.


This cd is for the hard-line Sonny and Cher fan
The recordings range in quality. This double cd chronichles the 70s' recordings of the Bonos. Cher sounds her worst on songs like the Bono penned " Classified 1A", and the best on songs like " The Way of Love". Sonny always sounds pretty miserable, but what else is new. He was a character singer. This compilation is very thorough, so if you are not a die-hard fan buy " Sonny and Chers' Greatest Hits" on MCA instead, it includes all the hits and then some with less filler. . If you are a big fan the liner notes and picture book included will be a must. A very nice packaging job here.


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