Audio CD review:
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive: The Anthology

Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive: The Anthology

Band: Gloria Gaynor Title: I Will Survive: The Anthology Rating: Release Date: 21 April, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: I Will Survive 2: Honeybee 3: Never Can Say Goodbye 4: Reach Out, I'll Be There 5: Anybody Wanna Party? (12' Remix) 6: Most Of All 7: This Love Affair 8: You're All I Need To Get By 9: Let's Make A Deal 10: I've Got You Under My Skin 11: Be Mine 12: Casanova Brown 13: (If You Want It) Do It Yourself 14: How High The Moon 15: Real Good People 16: Walk On By 17: What'll I Do 18: I Love You Cause 19: When You Get Around To it 20: Let Me Know (I Have A Right) 21: Tell Me How 22: I'm Still Yours 23: Don't Read Me Wrong 24: I Kinda Like Me 25: I Will Survive (Remix)

Editoral Review Gaynor was a disco diva by the numbers, and her career lived and died with the style--her records are generic in the sense that they were absolutely of their genre. Two CDs' worth of Gaynor is, frankly, a lot: Beyond her two classics (the brilliant, cyclically relentless title track and "Never Can Say Goodbye"), there's not much that made it above the dustier reaches of the charts, and not much that deserved to. So I Will Survive is programmed for discophiles more than for Gaynorphiles--the real star here is the production. The set includes three medleys that occupied full sides of her first three disco albums, as well as tracks from her '74-'81 albums that show off what her arrangers could do. --Douglas Wolk .. You can see a complete list of all Gloria Gaynor discography, or go back to the Gloria Gaynor tabs