Audio CD review:
Chris de Burgh - Spark to a Flame: The Very Best of Chris de Burgh

Chris de Burgh - Spark to a Flame: The Very Best of Chris de Burgh

Band: Chris de Burgh Title: Spark to a Flame: The Very Best of Chris de Burgh Rating: Release Date: 24 October, 1989 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: This Waiting Heart 2: Don't Pay The Ferryman 3: Much More Than This 4: Sailing Away 5: The Lady In Red 6: Borderline 7: Say Goodbye To It All 8: Spanish Train 9: Fatal Hesitation 10: Ship To Shore 11: Missing You 12: Diamond In The Dark 13: Tender Hands 14: A Spaceman Came Travelling 15: Where Peaceful Waters Flow 16: High On Emotion

Customer Reviews old diamond, found I've had this CD for a long, long time, but it's only recently that I decided to listen to the whole thing. . I had originally bought it only for "The Lady in Red" and "High on Emotion". There's some other good stuff in here; I guess the CD just had to be patient, and wait for me to come around and listen to it. Fine album I experience this, out of home half a year, hear this album while dinner or rest. Chris de Burgh music can be a very good company. It was the only Cd i found in that coast house as i was in it, and dont need more. . Still the best "Best of" It only covers the seventies and eighties, but those are really the only decades of de Burgh's work worth covering, when he wrote his most memorable songs. Several Chris de Burgh retrospectives have been released over the years, but this "Best of" compilation from 1989 is still the best collection of his work, offering tracks from a good selection of albums. It also includes two new releases (at that time): "This Waiting Heart" and "Diamond in the Dark. " "Waiting Heart" is especially catchy. I notice that the song line-up on Spark to a Flame has been changed since its original release. Originally the album The Getaway from 1981 was strongly (perhaps overly) represented with five tracks: "Don't Pay the Ferryman," "Borderline," "The Getaway," "Ship to Shore," and "Where Peaceful Waters Flow. " "Getaway" has since been dropped and Spanish Train & Other Stories is now better represented, although I wouldn't have included "Patricia the Stripper" on a greatest hits album. It's a fun, quirky song, but hardly a great song. But of course "Spanish Train" had to be included, and I love the song "A Spaceman Came Travelling. " This is also the only place you can hear the full version of "Borderline" segue into its sequel "Say Goodbye to It All," from Into the Light. That was a novel and brilliant thing Chris did, to have a song sequel years later and sample the closing lines of his earlier song before launching into the new song. "Lady in Red" was an obvious choice for this album - it's still Chris' biggest hit. But two other songs from Into the Light have been trimmed from this edition, namely, "Fire on the Water" and "One Word. " The rousing "High on Emotion" and gentle "Much More Than This" represent the album Man on the Line fairly adequately, though there are other songs from that album that were also worthy of being on a "Best of. " Then there are three songs from the very successful Flying Colors album: "Sailing Away," "Missing You" and "Tender Hands. " The albums by Chris that I think are neglected here are Eastern Wind and At the End of a Perfect Day. I just love the song "In a Country Churchyard. " It should be on this album. And people might also lament the absence of "Crusader" from the album of the same name. But all in all it's a good representation of Chris de Burgh's work. . You can see a complete list of all Chris de Burgh discography, or go back to the Chris de Burgh tabs