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Complete Greatest Hits by: Gordon Lightfoot List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.98 You Save: £6.01 (38%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0081227828721 Label: Warner Manufacturer: Warner Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warner Release Date: May 27, 2002 Studio: Warner Sales Rank: 4183 MPN: 78287 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Although he rose from the ranks of journeyman 60s' folksingers to become a potent and consistent 70s hit-maker, Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot's stock-in-trade was as much hard-eyed, dispassionate observation as it was romance or poetic whimsy. Perhaps that's why his songs have been covered by everyone from Elvis (this sets "Early Morning Rain") to Dylan. If there's such a thing as an alpha-male folkie, Lightfoot certainly fits the bill. Spanning the tongue-in-cheek chauvinism of 1965's "For Lovin' Me" and the cheatin' ways of "Sundown", to more introspective fare like "If You Could Read My Mind" and "Beautiful", this 20-track collection presents a concise primer on Lightfoot's career and craft. While his career peaked with one of the most unlikely Top Five hits ever, the gloom-laden 1976 narrative "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", Lightfoot's production tailed off sharply thereafter, though this anthology's "Stay Loose" (86) and "Restless" (93) are testament to his enduring skills as a songwriter and performer. --Jerry McCulley Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - EssentialNo better introduction to the music of Gordon Lightfoot available. The selection spans most of his career, right up to the most recent stuff. It's toe-tapping stuff, filled with great melodies and gritty, down-to-earth lyrics about life and love. Highlights for me were the haunting If You Could Read My Mind, the perfect Beautiful and Canadian Railroad Trilogy, an epic folk tale about the birth of the Canadian railway. I loved this disc. Rating: - Pretty darn good start!Though not all Gordon's finest songs are on here, it does just what it says on the can & concentrates on his singles, at least for the most part. Unfortunately, you'd need a 4-CD box set to really do justice to Mr Lightfoot, but this will do for the moment. Some tracks like Bitter Green(1968) & Race Amongst the Ruins(1976) rarely get an outing on most compilations, so they are welcome additions to the usual greats like If You Could Read My Mind,Sundown,Rainy Day People,The Circle is Small & Early Morning Rain. Plus, of course, The Wreck of The Edmund Fiztgerald. Anyone who can stick a 6 minute 35 second folk lament at number 2 in the Billboard chart has to be thunderingly talented! This track isn't simply ... Read More: Rating:  - Worth a listenI was searching for "If you could read my mind" for quite sometime after hearing it on an episode of Trigger happy tv so was very happy when i found it, it's worth buying just for that song if you're not much of folksy person, (i'm not) although i gave the rest a listen and its not bad at all. Well worth a listen, has definitely grown on me! Rating: - Lovely memoriesThis album re-awakened so many memories, I am sorry I left it so long to buy a new copy (the last one was lost many years ago!) But even if there are no memories to re-kindle, this is a nice slice of Gordon Lightfoot with which to introduce yourself to a major contributor to Folk in the 20th Century. One or two of the songs may even reduce you to tears. Rating: - A brilliant compilationGordon was first and foremost a folk singer but his music contains elements of pop, rock and country music. It is, therefore, no surprise that his songs have been covered by a variety of performers in several genres of music. You can't do full justice to Gordon's music with a single CD but, given that, the track selection here will surprise a few people - in particular, the omission of two of his famous early songs, Did she mention my name and Ribbon of darkness. These songs were not hits for Gordon, but for other people. It didn't do Gordon's reputation any harm to have Marty Robbins record Ribbon of darkness and be successful with it. Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan also covered his songs, while country singer George Hamilton IV recorded ... Read More: |
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