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Joe Cocker - The Best of Joe Cocker Audio CD

A fair review of the Joe Cocker "The Best of Joe Cocker" 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 Joe Cocker reviews here, or go back to the Joe Cocker tabs.

Joe Cocker Band: Joe Cocker
Title: The Best of Joe Cocker
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Release Date: 1993-03-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Unchain My Heart [90's Version] 2: You Can Leave Your Hat On 3: When the Night Comes 4: Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker, Jennifer Warnes 5: ow That the Magic Has Gone 6: Don't You Love Me Anymore 7: Shelter Me 8: Feels Like Forever 9: Night Calls 10: Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word 11: Civilized Man 12: With a Little Help from My Friends [Live]

This truly is "The Best of Joe Cocker".
Get it! Hear it! Love it!. You know how you buy the cd for 1 song that you absolutely adore and then there are only a couple of other songs on there that you like enough to listen to all the way through? Not going to happen with this one.


Joe Cocker CD
Great CD only thing that went wrong was the case it was shipped in was broken into 5 pieces. but not one scratch on the CD. . LOL .


Mostly unremarkable
When he has slick 80s radio pop backing, the results are usually less involving. When Cocker has the right song (meaning a nice raw rocker), he turns out intense, emotional music.

HIGHLIGHTS:
His 90s smash "When the Night Comes" is truly great, combining a nice slowly building melody, some gospelly overtones, and a nicely restrained vocal that belts when it needs to. Outside of that one, his duet with Jennifer Warnes on "Up Where We Belong" continues to sound good. (Who on earth ever envisioned THAT pairing?!?! And how do we thank them?) An updated live version of Beatles cover "With a Little Help from my Friends" is an electric epic, going from strength to strength.

LOWS:
Cocker is NOT Jeff Lynne. . . not even if you back him with a Lynne produced track like "Night Calls". I'll stick with Tom Jones' version for the definitive "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (likewise Ray Charles' take on "Unchain my Heart").

BOTTOM LINE:
Most of Cocker's best stuff is late 60s, early 70s material like "Feelin' Alright" and "You are So Beautiful". You can get those and the best bits of this one on Hip-O Records ULTIMATE COLLECTION (ASIN B00016MSXU). Get that one instead. .


Where Is "Love Is Alive?"
" That song really ROCKS and it is not here. I agree this is not up to par with Joe's best stuff from the 60s and early 70s, but given that, they even left off his best song from this period, "Love Is Alive. Shame.


Mixed Bag Anthology
Cocker's later career was not nearly as interesting as his late 60s and early 70s peak. "The Best of Joe Cocker" contains the highlights of his career from after the period covered by his "Greatest Hits" album, so it must be noted that the version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" is newer and not the "classic" version. A song like the syrupy duet ballad "Up Where We Belong" may have been a massive hit, but it has little in common with the raw power of his best work. The album's best moments come early. The first three songs, "Unchain My Heart," "You Can Leave Your Hat On" and "When the Night Comes," may be a bit heavy on the bombast, but they are quite tuneful and Cocker's never been in better voice. After that the songs are less memorable, with few standouts.

Overall, an up-and-down anthology from the latter part of Joe Cocker's great career.


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