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Bonnie Tyler - Bonnie Tyler The Best Audio CD

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Bonnie Tyler Band: Bonnie Tyler
Title: Bonnie Tyler The Best
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Release Date: 1999-05-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Total Eclipse Of The Heart 2: Faster Than The Speed Of Night 3: Have You Ever Seen The Rain 4: If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) 5: Here She Comes 6: Loving You's a Dirty Job But Somebody's Got to Do It 7: Getting So Excited 8: Save Up All Your Tears 9: Best 10: Holding Out for a Hero 11: Married Men 12: Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) - Shakin' Stevens, Bonnie Tyler 13: More Than a Lover 14: Don't Turn Around 15: Lovers Again 16: Lost in France 17: It's a Heartache 18: To Love Somebody

Great Album
Bonnie Tyler is a great voice that is just wonderful to listen to. I love this cd and the artist. .


Bonnie's Euro-Only Releases & Early Hits
I bought it for all the European only songs she recorded on 3 albums, & this set is a REAL bargain as you get almost all those album + singles tracks on this set. " ALL THE BEST " actually is a 3 CD compilation of Bonnie's European only early 90's albums, with several of her late 70's RCA hits thrown in for good measure [ IT'S A HEARTACHE, LOST IN FRANCE, MORE THAN A LOVER, etc ]. However, the quality of the songs & production I find not up to par with Bonnie's work for CBS/Sony in the 1980's .

It's hit or miss and take your pick with the songs here. The German label HANSA she signed with had her sing just about anything, with a lot of inferior written & produced songs. I like the songs Bonnie did with actual musicians like I CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, SAVE YOUR LOVE with Frankie Miller, WHERE WERE YOU, and others here. There are some good tracks with computer programming like RACE TO THE FIRE and BREAKOUT which both rock hard. Others have really drab computer backing & are just plain bad songs, like the atrocious SALLY COMES AROUND about a girl who sleeps around too much. Some of these songs are WAY beneath Bonnie's stature as a worldwide hit artist, and were written/produced by little know German writers. Other songs do boast big name writers & producers like Giorgio Moroder, Diane Warren, Albert Hammond, & Roy Bittan.

It's a bargain to get all these tracks at this price. Just pick & choose which songs you like best among the pack on this collection. .


Review for BonnieTyler The Best CD
Have always been a Bonnie Tyle fan. Very happy with this CD. Amazon's service was great.


Big Rock Sound
The album was a megahit on both sides of the Atlantic and gave her top 5 hits in the form of Total Eclipse Of The Heart and the title track. Bonnie Tyler had hits with Lost In France and It's A Heartache before she teamed up with Jim Steinman and created the album Faster Than The Speed Of Night which was a sort of female version of Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell.

Her husky voice is backed by powerful rock instrumentation, rolling, pounding drums, shimmering keyboards and blistering guitar riffs. This comprehensive Best Of collection includes her other great hit Holding Out For A Hero plus a stunning version of Have You Ever Seen The Rain and a duet with Shakin' Stevens.

The tracks from Faster Than The Speed Of Night are exuberant and theatrical, but her sensitive side is also displayed here on songs like the aforementioned Lost In France. If you love the hook-filled big rock sound of artists like Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Meat Loaf, Ellen Foley, Tina Turner or Jim Steinman, you'll love this album.
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Impressions about the CD
Even though some songs are "old-fashioned" I liked that. Some songs are super but some of them are not. It's inevitable that some of the compositions are less dynamic than leading ones, which is why you could skip some songs. .


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