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The Temptations - My Girl: The Very Best of the Temptations Audio CD

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The Temptations Band: The Temptations
Title: My Girl: The Very Best of the Temptations
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Release Date: 2002-04-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Dream Come True [Extended Stereo Mix] 2: I Want a Love I Can See [Extended Stereo Mix] 3: Way You Do the Things You Do 4: My Girl - Smokey Robinson, The Temptations 5: It's Growing 6: Since I Lost My Baby 7: Don't Look Back 8: Get Ready 9: Ain't Too Proud to Beg 10: Beauty Is Only Skin Deep 11: (I Know) I'm Losing You 12: All I Need 13: You're My Everything 14: I Wish It Would Rain 15: I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) 16: Cloud Nine 17: I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - Diana Ross, The Supremes, The Temptations 18: Runaway Child, Running Wild 19: I Can't Get Next to You 20: Psychedelic Shack 21: Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) 22: Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) 23: Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are?) 24: Papa Was a Rollin' Stone 25: Masterpiece 26: Hey Girl (I Like Your Style) 27: Let Your Hair Down 28: Shakey Ground 29: Power 30: Standing on the Top, Pt. 1 - Rick James, The Temptations 31: Treat Her Like a Lady 32: Jones' [12" Surgery Mix][#] 33: Some Enchanted Evening [Fiji Island Mix][#] 34: Stay 35: I'm Here [Metro Mix][#] 36: Lady

A less expensive version is available.
The track listing and features for My Girl: The Very Best. . is the exact same as the Temptations Gold album. Only, Gold is a few dollars cheaper. Get that one and save yourself some money. This is very odd for the same album to be packaged two different ways.

As far as the music: it's the Temptations and the music is really good. The latter end of the second cd lags due to the unmistakable and dated 80s sound.

I'll give a more in depth review for the Gold album. I just wanted to warn people this is a more expensive version of an album that already exists.


It don't get better than this
The music and performance will take you back to a time when artist had to have talent, and this CD is abundant with this. This is a classic that everybody should have. Motown classic.


Almost Perfect
I got this CD to replace my 1985 Command Performances 17 Greatest Hits CD and this collection does not disappoint. I'm only a casual fan of Motown music but the Temptations are by far my favorite Motown group.

The highlights for me are the cleaner, stronger bass sound on my favorite Temp song - "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone. " The remastered sound on this alone is worth the price of this CD. Also, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" has never sounded better. All the early songs are in stereo (or semi-stereo) which is great. I also appreciate the liner notes about each song by the remaining original member, Otis Williams.

I have only a few complaints. First, Disk 1 is only 58 minutes and could have used a few more of their early songs. One I wish was on it is "Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" (it's on the Command Performances CD). Not my favorite but a good song that should be on this collection. Disk 2 is a healthy 75 minutes - but I am not as excited about the songs recorded after 1973, so the last few songs on this CD seem like filler.

My second complaint is that for someone like me that did not follow this group closely, it would have been nice if the liner notes would have indicated who the lead singer was on each song but they do not.

Third, for most of the songs, the remastered sound is superior to the Command Performances CD. But on some songs, like the fabulous "I Could Never Love Another", the remastered violins (or should I say strings)seem to dominate too much. The Command Performance version of this song has a better blend. I'm not too crazy about the strings that were on most of these old Motown songs anyway. It would be interesting to hear them with the strings removed.

But these are minor complaints and all in all this is a great collection by an incredible group. .


"Just my imagination {runnnin away with me}"?

Watching the movie brought back alot of memories. I recently watched part of the movie on MTV and was so impressed by the acting and singing that I bought the movie. My pal Louie was a HUGE fan. I was more of a psychedelic rock guy. My how times do change.
I first bought some other Temps cd of 16 recordings which were not original . So I bought this here and WHOAH. I am now a HUGE fan. The talent of these guys was truly inspired. The attention to detail ,the lyrics ,the sheer romantic intensity of the love songs and the social commentary of some of the others is still relevant today. The high pitched voice of David and the boss tone quality of Melvin with the other's each having a pivotal role is exhilirating. What a pleasure to hear and reknow this class act. Bet my pal Louie is harmonizing with Paul, Al ,Melvin,,Eddie,Dave and the rest right now. Or is it :"Just my imagination {runnning away with me}"?.


The Best Temptations Compilation To Date
This two disc set has it all. If you want only one Temptations cd in your collection, than this is the on to get. Every major hit the band had, remastered with fantastic sound, accompanied by a fantastic booklet with commentary on each song by original member Otis Williams. "My Girl", "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", "I Can't Get Next To You", "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)", "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" and every other classic hit is on here. This is by far the one to get.


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