The Ultimate Collection Music Cd

The Temptations - The Ultimate Collection

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The Ultimate Collection      Artist : The Temptations      List Price : $13.98 USD        Your Price : $9.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1997-03-25      Studio : Motown      Label : Motown      Avg. Customer Rating : (58 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for The Ultimate Collection      Something is Missing      Rating:      I love the CD, but it is inexcusable for not having "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" and "Psychedelic Shack" on it.     Customer Reviews for The Ultimate Collection Cd      What great music. . . .      Rating:      Recently, an Amazon friend reviewed this book. Since I gave up my old vinyl collection, I have not had any Temptations' CDs in my collection. That review just mentioned impelled me to begin adding some of the group's music to the set of CDs that I own. Just got the CD and is it glorious! Obviously, one CD will not hold all of the best music of this group. However, what appears here is pretty terrific. From 1964, "The Way You Do the Things You Do" and "My Girl"; from 1972, "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)" and, maybe, my all-time favorite work, "Pap Was a Rolling Stone"; from 1994, "Error of Our Ways." A few examples of their work. . . The sunny "My Girl." A cheerful instrumental introduction followed by opening lines such as: "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day; When it's cold outside, I got the month of May." Why? "My girl." A nice uptempo, upbeat tune, something that the Temptations could do so well. Of course, more lugubrious feelings can be elicited as well. Take "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)." The singer speaks of the joy of having a wonderful girl" ". . .I watch her as she passes by. I say to myself, I'm such a lucky guy. To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true." But the reality? "It was just my imagination, running away with me." Good instrumentals and fine vocal backing. One of the classics among all Temptations' songs. The Rolling Stones did a nice cover of this, but this version is the "real deal." Then, my personal favorite of all their oeuvre, "Pap Was a Rolling Stone." A 2 minute introduction, as funky as one could wish, with wailing horns and an hypnotic beat before vocals come into play. The first lines: "It was the third of September, A day I'll always remember. . . That was the day that my Daddy died." This is the story of a person being apart from a father and hearing lots of bad things about him. Then asking his mom why. Her answer? "Papa was a rolling stone, Wherever he laid his hat was his home." Song after song. These bring memories flooding back as I recalled hearing some of these songs for the first time when they were first released. Want to know something about this group? This is a good starting point. Editorial Reviews for The Ultimate Collection Audio Cd      Amazon.com      A brave effort at cramming one disc full of Temptations classics, The Ultimate Collection nevertheless makes a couple of puzzling choices. Why, for instance, include "Error of Our Ways," a very minor mid-'90s hit, and ignore "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" or "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)," both number ones from their classic period? Still, for the price, it's hard to argue with. --Rickey Wright