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Lionel Richie - Back to Front Audio CD

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Lionel Richie Band: Lionel Richie
Title: Back to Front
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Release Date: 1992-05-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Do It to Me 2: My Destiny 3: Love, Oh Love 4: All Night Long (All Night) 5: Easy - The Commodores, Lionel Richie 6: Still - The Commodores, Lionel Richie 7: Endless Love - Lionel Richie, Diana Ross 8: Running with the Night 9: Sail On - The Commodores, Lionel Richie 10: Hello 11: Truly 12: Penny Lover 13: Say You, Say Me 14: Three Times a Lady - The Commodores, Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie Back to Front
If you are a Richie fan, then you should own this. What can I say? It's the greatest hits of Lionel Richie. I bought it on cassette. Now, I need to upgrade and get this on CD.


Great CD
Lionel is one of the greatest singers of all time. I think this is one of the best offerings by the great songster. You Are My Destiny is on this CD. If you want to purchase a CD, and love Lionel --- This is the one to get. .


Great songs from a All time Great Artist
He always left his touch. Lionel Richie was always the truth. He understood words&Music as well as anybody who has ever done it. the Brother can Write. he has that songs&Vocal moments where you are yelling OUTRAGIOUS!!!!! this is a Artist's Artist. He is One of My all Time Favorite Artist's Ever. I miss when His Music was Dominating the Charts. I wish all of these Rappers would go away&Lionel Richie's Music was running things again. this is a soul Brother who brought it. Only Michael Jackson had a Bigger impact back in the 80's than Lionel Richie. Irony they both Wrote the Mother of all World Uplifting songs in 'We Are the world". Lionel is only 2nd to MJ in terms of Leaving a Successful group&then going solo&blowing up even bigger. but Lionel Richie as a Songwriter is on that Mount Rushmore of Great songwriters. the Brother wrote them songs that you feel in your guts. LR was always the Musical Truth. this is a Great collection. Lionel Never sold as a Artist. he always stayed in his lane. Props to the soul brother always on Dat. he got the Career that is should be a required Blue-Print. he did it the right way.


Truly
While it is often desired as well as it could be, it is often declared as a miss. There are often times where a decent artist can make or break the best reflection of their career with a greatest hits record. That has been the case with so many artists like Whitney Houston, Melissa Etheridge, and the late Luther Vandross. They've had a very wonderful reflection of music, but it wasn't that way with their greatest hits records. For Lionel Richie, he has been another example. His era of his solo works, and his success with The Commodores in the 60's and 70's, is arguably some of the most elequent works ever in the history of the Motown era, and his first greatest hits is a mixed reflection of good works.

Back To Front, Lionel Richie's 1992 greatest hits record, tries to do a good job at reflecting Lionel's solo works with his efforts with The Commodores in a convient package of music. The collection does have a lot of great songs that still remain defiant towards Lionel, and what has made him one of the most elequent singer/songwriters ever. The collection includes a lot of great songs from his career including Endless Love with Diana Ross, the Oscar-winning Say You Say Me from White Nights, All Night Long, Easy, and the tender ballad Hello. Although the album does include some great songs, there arguably could've been more added on that was overlooked from not just Lionel's solo works, but also The Commodores as well. The collection overlooks tracks like Love Will Conquer All, the soft and soulful Stuck On You, and Commodores tracks like Lady (You Bring Me Up), and Brick House.

All in all, Back To Front fairs well as a good hits collection reflecting Lionel Richie's career, but there just could've been a whole lot more to have been desired that should've been shown. I absolutely suggest you purchase the 2003 Lionel Richie Definitive Collection instead. It is a much better greatest hits record than this one.

Album Cover: B 1/2-

Songs: B-

Price: B-

Remastering: C+

Overall: C 1/2+ .


Picks Up Some of the Greatest 70s and 80s Love Songs
Lionel Richie is a perfect student of Motown school and created some of the finest love songs of the 70s and 80s either during Commodores days and his solo works such as LIONEL RICHIE (1981) CAN'T SLOW DOWN (1983) and DANCING ON THE CEILING (1986). Lionel Richie reminds me of the boss at my first part time job workplace who had the exactly the same hairstyle and had similar face. Also he contributed a lot to make ADULT CONTEMPORARY household words for ordinary music fans.

It is true that this compilation has some flaws seen from seasoned fans because it misses a lot of great songs that should have been here such as YOU ARE from LIONEL RICHIE or BALLERINA GIRL from DANCING ON THE CEILING. Yet for music fans that are new to him this compilation is an excellent guide to know his music.

EASY, THREE TIMES A LADY, STILL, SAIL ON comes from Commodores all of them are some of my all time favorites. ALL NIGHT LONG is a fun reggae-like pop song and one of my all-time 80s hits. RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT and DANCING ON THE CEILING are the power pop track with excellent guitar solo. HELLO, STUCK ON YOU, PENNY LOVER are the love ballads so unforgettable. ENDLESS LOVE duet with DIANA ROSS is the theme title for the film. Newer tracks are of lesser degree than all time favorite hits but enjoyable. DO IT TO ME might be for someone else to sing, say , LUTHER VANDROSS? MY DESTINY could have been CAN'T SLOW DOWN track.
MY OH MY seems to find a place in WE ARE THE WORLD soundtrack.

Verdict: All Time Favorite Compilation though missing some great songs.
Rating: 94 out of 100
Recommended for: Wide range of music fans who are new to Lionel Richie.
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