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Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971-1992

Olivia Newton-John - Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971-1992 Audio CD

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Band: Olivia Newton-John
Title: Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971-1992
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Release Date: 1992-06-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Deeper Than a River 2: Not Gonna Be the One 3: I Want to Be Wanted 4: I Need Love 5: Twist of Fate 6: Physical 7: Magic 8: Deeper Than the Night 9: Little More Love 10: You're the One That I Want - Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta 11: Summer Nights - Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta 12: Hopelessly Devoted to You 13: Please Mr. Please 14: Sam 15: Have You Never Been Mellow 16: If You Love Me (Let Me Know) 17: I Honestly Love You

Great Album, Almost All of Her Best Songs
The only thing missing in my mind was Gimme Some Lovin'. This is a great album. A minor gripe. If you want a good collection of her stuff, this fits the bill.

Olivia and life
A little more love touched my heart and I honestly love you , I still listen to the song everyday. I have always loved Olivia Newton John as a singer and actress. When I first heard I honestly love you , I contacted the radio station to dedicate it the person I loved and always will. Love does not go away. Thanks Olivia!.

AN ESSENTIAL RETROSPECTIVE!
luckily, "olivia newton-john's back to basics: the essential collection" was released in the philippines with 20 tracks! the cd is made in germany and the tracks are:

01. nowadays, an album released in one country could omit or add tracks when released in other countries. if not for you
02. banks of the ohio
03. what is life
04. take me home country roads
05. honestly love you
06. haveyou never been mellow
07. sam
08. you're the one that i want
09. hopelessly devoted to you
10. summer nights
11. a little more love
12. xanadu
13. magic
14. suddenly
15. physical
16. the rumour
17. not gonna be the one
18. i need love
19. i want to be wanted
20. deeper than a river

the tracks seemed chronological as the albums where the tracks came from are featured in the sleeve cover. all the new tracks are tucked in the end. reading the reviews of fellow amazon. com customers, complaining about the missing tracks, i feel sorry that they were not able to get the european version.

for a more comprehensive track listing, "gold" which is a 2-disc greatest hits was also released. you may grab that instead of this collection.

in brief, this essential collection is really great and a amazing retrospect of olivia's multi-platimum career!.

Great One Disc Compilation of ONJ's work and Surprisingly Great Sound!
That, I suppose, is inevitable given the volume of ONJ's work and the ability to only put so many tracks on one disc. I have to say that for an unremastered album, the sound quality of this cd is remarkably good! I can only imagine how much better this would be if they would remaster it and make this a 20 track collection as I agree with most of the other reviewers here that some truly essential tracks are missing. Which is why I'm more forgiving of this version of her best of tracks and I'm going to say that the tracks here are a very good selection by themselves and there are 4 new tracks as well. ONJ has been very lucky in that she has had great songwriters write for here like John Farrar and great producers as well like David Foster enhancing her sound. There really isn't a weak track here and my favourites that are real gems of songwriting and performance are "Magic" (the great guitar harmonics still gives me goosebumps everytime), "A Little More Love" (one of the best bass lines ever composed) "Sam" (a great love song and written by one of the original members of the Shadows!)"Have You Never Been Mellow" and "I Honestly Love You" This is a very good ONJ compilation and for the price, 17 great track selections and surprisingly good sound quality a great bargain indeed. Highly recommended.

Olivia Newton-John; Back To Basics 1971-1992
To this day I still own her O. Olivia Newton-John compilations have been in this household since the 70s and all I can say is she has always had songs that I enjoy listening to. N. J. Greatest Hits MCA Records Inc. LP from 1976. Part of the tunes from that album are on this CD but not all. In other words the biggest problem I have with this 1992 Back To Basics disc is there's to many of her hits left off. Let Me Be There, Come On Over, Don't Stop Believin, and, Xanadu, are just four that are not here however there are several on this CD that most of you will recognize like, Physical, I Honestly Love You, Sam, If You Love Me (Let Me Know), and the sexy tunes, A Little More Love, and, Magic, plus it also has three songs from the highly popular motion picture, Grease, and they are, Summer Nights, You're The One That I Want, and, Hopelessly Devoted To You. There is also a nice catchy little tune on here that deserves honorable mention and is also pleasant to listen to being, Deeper Than A River, so I have to say that this is a decent seventeen track single disc that still packs a punch.
Of all the great songs Olivia has gave us over the years I still gotta say that my two favorites are songs with a country flavor from her earliest days and they are 1973s, Let Me Be There, and 1974s, If You Love Me (Let Me Know), and like I stated above, Let Me Be There, is not on this disc so I still have to listen to my ole O. N. J. Greatest Hits LP to hear that one. For years; when I would listen to one I would also listen to the other because they are back to back on the ole LP.
For Olivia I give five stars however due to some of Olivia's hits being missing I can only give this compilation three stars which rounds out to four. I can handle a few of her hits not being on this disc and you probably can to However; Am I aggravated at myself for purchasing this CD without one of my two favorite tunes by Olivia on it? Yep! and I can't get any more basic than that.

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