Monday, March 23, 2009

Aretha Franklin - 3O Greatest Hits [Best Of]


Track Listing

1. I Never Loved A Man [The Way I Love You]
2. Respect
3. Do Right Woman - Do Right Man
4. Dr. Feelgood [Love Is A Serious Business]
5. Save Me
6. Baby, I Love You
7. [You Make Me Feel Like] A Natural Woman
8. Chain Of Fools
9. Since You've Been Gone [Sweet Sweet Baby]
10. Ain't No Way
11. Think
12. I Say A Little Prayer
13. The House That Jack Built
14. See Saw
15. The Weight
16. Share Your Love With Me
17. Eleanor Rigby
18. Call Me
19. Spirit In The Dark
20. Don't Play That Song
21. You're All I Need To Get By
22. Bridge Over Troubled Water
23. Spanish Harlem
24. Rock Steady
25. Oh Me Oh My [I'm A Fool For You Baby]
26. Day Dreaming
27. Wholy Holy
28. Angel
29. Until You Come Back To Me [That's What I'm Gonna Do]
30. I'm In Love

My Thoughts : This is by far the most definative collection of Aretha Franklin. Recorded for Atlantic Records between 1967 and 1974. It carries all her best work. First released in 1985, this album still in print today. This Queen of Soul has certainly live up to its name as every songs she sings comes from her heart. Be it heart wrenching, sorrow, or upbeat, The Queen of Soul has given all to you.

With the release of the Box sets in 1992 called "Queen of Soul : Atlantic Recording, Aretha Franklin"which carries 4 CD with 88 tracks ride with great packaging and 80 + pages booklet, I would still prefer this 2 CD collection with 30 tracks. Of course, leave the Box Sets to the die hard fan as the sets carries all her Atlantic outputs with the standard hits, and if one is looking more than soul, that is, Gospel singing. This sets will definately be satisfied.

Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings [BOX SET]

Track Listing

Disc: 1

1. I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
2. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
3. Save Me
4. Respect
5. Baby, Baby, Baby
6. Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)
7. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
8. Soul Serenade
9. Drown in My Own Tears
10. Chain of Fools
11. Baby, I Love You
12. Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)
13. Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)
14. You Are My Sunshine
15. Going Down Slow
16. Never Let Me Go
17. I Wonder
18. Prove It
19. Good Times
20. Come Back Baby
21. Change
22. You're a Sweet Sweet Man
23. Good to Me as I Am to You
24. People Get Ready
25. Ain't No Way
Disc: 2

1. Think
2. See Saw
3. House That Jack Built
4. Night Time Is the Right Time
5. I Say a Little Prayer
6. You Send Me
7. My Song
8. I Take What I Want
9. I Can't See Myself Leaving You
10. Night Life [Live]
11. Today I Sing the Blues
12. Pitiful
13. Tracks of My Tears
14. River's Invitation
15. Share Your Love With Me
16. It Ain't Fair
17. Sit Down and Cry
18. Honest I Do
19. Weight
20. When the Battle Is Over
21. Eleanor Rigby
22. One Way Ticket
23. Call Me
24. Pullin'

Disc: 3

1. Son of a Preacher Man
2. Try Matty's
3. Thrill Is Gone [From Yesterday's Kiss]
4. Dark End of the Street
5. You and Me
6. Let It Be
7. Spirit in the Dark
8. Why I Sing the Blues
9. Don't Play That Song
10. Young, Gifted and Black
11. Border Song (Holy Moses)
12. Brand New Me
13. You're All I Need to Get By
14. Spanish Harlem
15. Rock Steady
16. Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)
17. Day Dreaming
18. All the King's Horses
19. Bridge over Troubled Water
20. Angel

Disc: 4
1. Spirit in the Dark (Reprise) [Live] - Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin
2. How I Got Over [Live]
3. So Swell When You're Well
4. Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)
5. Somewhere Listen
6. I'm in Love
7. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
8. Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
9. Every Natural Thing
10. Without Love - Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin
11. With Everything I Feel in Me
12. Mr. D.J. (5 for the D.J.)
13. Look into Your Heart
14. Sparkle
15. Rock With Me
16. Break It to Me Gently
17. Something He Can Feel


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