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Anthology-The Best of The Temptations

The Temptations - Anthology-The Best of The Temptations Audio CD

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Band: The Temptations
Title: Anthology-The Best of The Temptations
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Release Date: 1995-05-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Way You Do the Things You Do 2: I'll Be in Trouble 3: Girl's Alright with Me 4: Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue) 5: My Girl 6: It's Growing 7: What Love Has Joined Together 8: Who's Lovin' You 9: Since I Lost My Baby 10: You've Got to Earn It 11: Nobody But You 12: My Baby 13: Don't Look Back 14: Ol' Man River [Live] 15: Get Ready 16: Ain't Too Proud to Beg 17: You'll Lose a Precious Love 18: Beauty Is Only Skin Deep 19: (I Know) I'm Losing You 20: All I Need 21: You're My Everything 22: (Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need 23: I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) 24: Please Return Your Love to Me 25: Lullaby of Love [#] 26: Impossible Dream 27: Cloud Nine 28: I'm Gonna Make You Love Me 29: Runaway Child, Running Wild 30: Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down 31: I Can't Get Next to You 32: Psychedelic Shack 33: Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) 34: Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) 35: Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are?) 36: Papa Was a Rollin' Stone 37: Masterpiece 38: Hey Girl (I Like Your Style) 39: Let Your Hair Down 40: Shakey Ground 41: Song for You 42: Power 43: Standing on the Top, Pt. 1 44: Treat Her Like a Lady 45: Lady Soul

A Must Have For Any Music Fan
I think The Temptations are (together with the great Marvin Gaye) the best discovery from Motown Records. The Temptations are from way before my time, but I discovered The Temptations as a great group from Motown.

And this is the best and most complete collection of their songs, including classics suck as 'My Girl', 'Ain't Too Proud to Beg', 'Cloud Nine', 'Papa Was A Rollin' Stone', and many more. The first disc is a more R&B cd while the second is more a funk oriented cd. This CD is really a must have for everyone who calls himself/herself a music fan. .

A Classic!!!!
This is one of the very best anthologies that have ever been compiled on the Temptations. A classic!!!If you love classic R&B, what I call 'Soul' music, this is a must-have for you. It has most of their known best songs and minute by minute, you'll relish the mastery of producers and songwriters like Smokey, Norman, Kenneth. . . and the soulful voices of the Temptations from the original to the changed lineup/s. The songs are very good and this is a classic album to have for your collection. Definitely a collectible album alongside many of the Temptations' albums.

Heavenly
It has all of the old favorites we know and love, but it also has some that I had not heard, so I was so happy to get this anthology of the Temptations. I just recieved this cd last week and I have already copied a tape of it for my car. If you love the Temptations like I do they could sing the ABC's and you would still tremble. .

Should Have Been A Unanimous 5 Stars

Having said that, you just know this one is a jewel when the vast majority of the reviews posted to date give it the maximum. And, except for a few audiophiles who bemoan the fact that it's in mono, it would have been 5 stars across the board. And this, in my opinion, is not just based upon the outstanding music but also the insert which contains eight pages of comprehensive liner notes by Harry Weinger, numerous photographs, a complete Temptations Family Tree from 1961 to 1995, a full discography of the contents, and a listing of their many albums.

Inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame in 1989, they put 55 songs into the Billboard Pop Hot 100 singles charts from 1964 to 1991, and had another three "Bubble Under" to go along with six on the Adult Contemporary charts - and scored no less than 87 times on the R&B charts.

This 46-selection, 2-CD set provides 36 of those 55 Hot 100 singles although, being a selfish completist collector of hit singles, I would have preferred to have seen tracks 8, 11, 14, 27 [each album cuts] - 3, 7, 10, 17 [each B-sides] - and 26 [previously unreleased] on Disc One, and track 15 [album cut] on Disc Two - replaced by omitted hits.

These could have included the following, some of which remain hard to find in CD format: Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite The World) - # 8 R&B/# 33 Hot 100 1970]; Take A Look Around [# 10 R&B/# 30 Hot 100 1972]; Mother Nature [# 27 R&B/# 92 Hot 100 1972]; The Plastic Man [# 8 R&B/# 40 Hot 100 1973]; Heavenly [# 8 R&B/# 43 Hot 100 1974; Happy People [# 1 R&B/# 40 Hot 100 1975]; Glasshouse [# 9 R&B/# 37 Hot 100 1975]; Keep Holding On [# 3 R&B/# 54 Hot 100 1976]; Aiming At Your Heart [# 36 R&B/# 67 Hot 100 1981]; and Sail Away [# 13 R&B/# 54 Hot 100 1984].

Even so, this does not take away from the beauty of the set, part of a series which also includes Smokey Robinson & The Miracles and The Supremes, and dedicated to group member Melvin Franklin who passed away at age 52 on February 23, 1995. .

Top class stuff
I'd still like to review it though. My copy of this CD arrived damaged and so I had to order a slightly different version rather urgently from somewhere else.

I wanted to get this CD after hearing the song "Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)" being used to promote (the then upcoming) Season 4 of HBO's "The Wire". Check out these lyrics: "People moving out, people moving in (Why?)/ Because of the colour of their skin/ Run, run, run but you sure can't hide/ An eye of an eye, a tooth for a tooth/ Vote for me and I'll set you free!/ The only person talkin' about love, my brother, is the preacher/ And it seems nobody's interested in learnin' but the teacher. "

The producers of that show are incredibly smart. I'm sure any fan of "The Wire" will agree that those few lines capture the current season of the show perfectly, almost as if the song was written for it. Or as if they wrote the show around the song.

Of course neither is the case; the use of the song simply came about as the result of good researching, and The Temptations probably don't need any introduction anyway. Alongside other male vocal groups like the O'Jays, The Four Tops, The Jackson 5/The Jacksons, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and even The Commodores, these dudes were the soundtrack to the 60s and 70s, and the soundtrack to my generation's youth. They don't make them like this anymore.

All the hits are here; tunes like "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone", "My Girl", "Get Ready", "Just My Imagination" and "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (with Diana Ross & The Supremes) among more recent ones like "Treat Her Like A Lady". And of course, "Ball Of Confusion". Over 40 songs and not a dud to be found anywhere. They certainly don't make them like this anymore.

This is one of those CDs I put on and find difficult to stop even if I'm late for an appointment somewhere. I'm playing it in the car and I get to where I want to go and I don't want to get out, at least, not until the song I'm listening to has finished. This is top class stuff. The best Temptations collection around today.

Right on, brothers!
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