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Track List
01) All Night Long
02) Say You, Say Me
03) My Destiny
04) Running With the Night
05) Dancing on the Ceiling
06) Don't Stop the Music
07) Love, Oh Love
08) Ballerina Girl
09) My Love
10) Love Will Conquer All
11) Do It to Me
12) Cinderella
13) Tender Heart
14) Don't Wanna Lose You
15) Closest Thing to Heaven
16) I Forgot
17) Angel
18) To Love a Woman (feat. Enrique Iglesias)
Cd 2
01) Three Times a Lady
02) Easy
03) Endless Love
04) Hello
05) Still
06) Sail On
07) Stuck on You
08) You Are
09) Truly
10) Just to Be Close to You
11) Sweet Love
12) Penny Lover
13) Oh No
14) Lady (You Bring Me Up)
15) Wonderland
16) Machine Gun
17) Brick House
18) Too Hot Ta Trot
19) Flying High
20) Zoom
01) All Night Long
02) Say You, Say Me
03) My Destiny
04) Running With the Night
05) Dancing on the Ceiling
06) Don't Stop the Music
07) Love, Oh Love
08) Ballerina Girl
09) My Love
10) Love Will Conquer All
11) Do It to Me
12) Cinderella
13) Tender Heart
14) Don't Wanna Lose You
15) Closest Thing to Heaven
16) I Forgot
17) Angel
18) To Love a Woman (feat. Enrique Iglesias)
Cd 2
01) Three Times a Lady
02) Easy
03) Endless Love
04) Hello
05) Still
06) Sail On
07) Stuck on You
08) You Are
09) Truly
10) Just to Be Close to You
11) Sweet Love
12) Penny Lover
13) Oh No
14) Lady (You Bring Me Up)
15) Wonderland
16) Machine Gun
17) Brick House
18) Too Hot Ta Trot
19) Flying High
20) Zoom
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First Released
2003
Soul
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It's hard to believe, but prior to the 2003 release of The Definitive Collection, there wasn't a proper hits collection in Lionel Richie's catalog. A decade earlier, Motown dipped their toe in the water with the jumbled Back to Front, which tried desperately to camouflage its nature as a comp with three new songs, which, at 14 tracks, hurt the hit quotient dramatically. This, however, gets it almost all right. Spanning 20 tracks (only two of which are new, tacked onto the end; while not especially memorable, neither is bad), this collection has nearly all the big hits from his solo recordings (the Top Ten "Love Will Conquer All" is notably absent, but that's the only chart-topper not here), along with five Commodores ballads that showcase Richie the balladeer at a peak: "Just to Be Close to You," "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," "Still," "Sail On." Since these were the first tracks to showcase Lionel Richie as a talent separate from the Commodores, their presence is welcome on a collection of his solo hits, and they indeed make this a fuller experience, since this now has all of Richie's soft rock hits in one place. Taken together, it's a formidable body of work, making a clear case for him as one of the preeminent soft rock craftsmen of the early '80s. True, the collection might have benefited slightly from a chronological track listing, but by jumping between albums, and between Commodores and solo material, the consistency of his records becomes evident. Few of his peers created singles as memorable as "Easy," the infectious "All Night Long (All Night)," "Truly," the sweetly melancholic "Hello," the insistent, gently ominous "Running with the Night," "Just to Be Close to You," and the ebullient "You Are," as delightful as 45s came in the early days of the Reagan Administration. Not everything here quite reaches those standards -- admittedly, those are the hits upon which his reputation lay, plus they're the best that soft pop got in the '80s -- but the rest is all well-crafted and easily enjoyable, proving that Lionel Richie is a singular adult contemporary talent. He may be sappy, but he's got skills.
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It's hard to believe, but prior to the 2003 release of The Definitive Collection, there wasn't a proper hits collection in Lionel Richie's catalog. A decade earlier, Motown dipped their toe in the water with the jumbled Back to Front, which tried desperately to camouflage its nature as a comp with three new songs, which, at 14 tracks, hurt the hit quotient dramatically. This, however, gets it almost all right. Spanning 20 tracks (only two of which are new, tacked onto the end; while not especially memorable, neither is bad), this collection has nearly all the big hits from his solo recordings (the Top Ten "Love Will Conquer All" is notably absent, but that's the only chart-topper not here), along with five Commodores ballads that showcase Richie the balladeer at a peak: "Just to Be Close to You," "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," "Still," "Sail On." Since these were the first tracks to showcase Lionel Richie as a talent separate from the Commodores, their presence is welcome on a collection of his solo hits, and they indeed make this a fuller experience, since this now has all of Richie's soft rock hits in one place. Taken together, it's a formidable body of work, making a clear case for him as one of the preeminent soft rock craftsmen of the early '80s. True, the collection might have benefited slightly from a chronological track listing, but by jumping between albums, and between Commodores and solo material, the consistency of his records becomes evident. Few of his peers created singles as memorable as "Easy," the infectious "All Night Long (All Night)," "Truly," the sweetly melancholic "Hello," the insistent, gently ominous "Running with the Night," "Just to Be Close to You," and the ebullient "You Are," as delightful as 45s came in the early days of the Reagan Administration. Not everything here quite reaches those standards -- admittedly, those are the hits upon which his reputation lay, plus they're the best that soft pop got in the '80s -- but the rest is all well-crafted and easily enjoyable, proving that Lionel Richie is a singular adult contemporary talent. He may be sappy, but he's got skills.
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