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buby1987 — 13 years ago(May 19, 2012 11:57 AM)
Gold from5b4 2005 is a two-CD set that covers not only well-known hits but also some lesser-known but great songs. Also, the songs sound better than on the original CD's.
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pvd295 — 13 years ago(May 19, 2012 01:04 PM)
"Endless Summer" is pretty good, an 'edited down' version of 'Anthology'.
I remember that was released after 'Anthology', on one disc to make her 'collection' more affordable to her audience (back then the 2 disc 'Anthology' had a hefty price tag).
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buby1987 — 13 years ago(May 19, 2012 06:22 PM)
I never bought Anthology, probably because 2 disc sets were so expensive back then.
I think you could buy all of Donna Summer's albums from 1975 through 1980 and there is so much good music on all of the albums, it would be worthwhile. -
FranLovesBetteD — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 08:25 AM)
"I'm sure a new best-of will be released in the upcoming months".
I hope it will contain "Down Deep Inside", since that fabulous song is only featured in her live album and "The Deep" soundtrack, which, the last time I checked on Amazon, costed over $150! It's a fabulous, ethereal song, and I'd love to own the studio version on CD.
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n_Place — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 01:59 PM)For me, On The Radio is the definitive collection. It came out in 1979 so it's missing everything after, but some of the later hits collections leave out key classic clubs tracks in favor of the few top 40 hits she had in the 80's.
Most people up until Bad Girls had only known Donna by 75's Love To Love You Baby, 1977's I Feel Love and 1978's Last Dance. Three hits in three years was nice, but she wasn't huge. Then came Bad Girls and BOOM!. On The Radio: Greatest Hits 1 & 2 was an attempt to collect the music of the last few years and show there was more to Donna than just the big hits! In true Donna Summer style the album sides were mixed as a continous mix for your dancing pleasure. Side 1 was her newest hit On The Radio, then right to the begining with her first 2 singles Love To Love You and Try Me.. Then I Feel Love and album cut Our Love (not a "hit") The next 2 album sides go in order of year and make nice non-stop party music. The fourth side contained the MASSIVE disco hit with Barbra Streisand, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) in a mix that runs almost 12 minutes! Then a long club mix of On The Radio clocking in at almost 6 minutes.
If you want a complete career retrospective I would wait and see what comes out this year If u just are needing some Donna Summer disco in your ipod I would pick this collection. It's missing She Works Hard.. and Love Is In Control But it more than makes up for that with some classic club favorites, like I Remember Yesterday, I Love You and Sunset People, from a time where EVERYTHING Donna Summer sang was GOLD! (Some platinum a few even multi-platinum!) -
3_Beekman_Place — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 02:17 PM)
Also steer clear of any so called hits collections with the songs, Back Off Boogaloo, Fun Street, Na Na Hey Hey, Shout It Out, Jeannie ect. This is some sort of collection of early demos that is all over itunes and other places with various titles like Remixed & Early Great or Hot Summer Set. Some even say Greatest Hits or Best Of! I love Donna but these tracks are worthless. Check them out on itunes, they don't even really sound like Donna!
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buby1987 — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 05:03 PM)
I looked through a Billboard list of top ten hits over the years.
Donna first hit the top ten, and went to number two, with Love To Love You Baby in early 76. She didn't return to the top ten until October 77 with I Feel Love. In July 78 Last Dance hit the top ten.
In late 78 MacArthur Park was her first No. 1. Heaven Knows went into the top ten in March 79.
Hot Stuff and Bad Girls were both in the top ten at the same time in the summer of 79. Both went to No. 1.
Dim All The Lights hit No. 2 in fall 79, and her duet with Streisand went No. 1 later that fall.
On the Radio was top ten in March 80. The Wanderer made it into the top ten in November 80. Love Is In Control was top ten in fall 82. She Works Hard for the Money went top ten in the summer of 83. Finally, This Time I Know It's For Real was a top ten hit in the summer of 89. -
tpcorless — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 05:03 PM)
There's no replacing Donna's albums. As amazing as her singles are, she also made some excellent albums - Once Upon a Time, I Remember Yesterday, Bad Girls, Wanderer, I'm a Rainbow, Another Place & Time and her Christmas album are all excellent.
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buby1987 — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 05:09 PM)
I agree. Donna's greatest hits were basically all of her songs. All of her albums between 1975 and 1980 are worth buying. There are plenty of great songs on all of her albums, hits or non-hits.
On Love to Love You Baby (the album) I love Pandora's Box and Need A Man Blues.
On A Love Trilogy, I enjoy Wasted. That could have been a hit.
Four Seasons of Love is a great concept LP, good all the way through.
I Remember Yesterday Love's Unkind, Back in Love Again, Black Lady, Take Me are all great and could have been released as singles.
On Bad Girls, there are a number of obscure cuts that I love Love Will Always Find You, Journey to the Center of Your Heart, One Night in a Lifetime, All Through the Night in addition to the well-known cuts.
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buby1987 — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 11:07 PM)
I've heard it. Usually I don't like remixes but they did a good job with this. It shows Donna could sing straight-ahead rock and roll.
I just listened to a song on youtube, credited to Donna Gaines, called Don't Understand (or Can't Understand). Recorded in the early 70's. Excellent vocal performance.
I recently discovered Deep Down Inside, a song I had overlooked. I first listened to it about two weeks ago, and it is one of my favorite Donna songs. -
williams_kendall — 13 years ago(May 24, 2012 02:12 PM)
Her 1993 two disc anthology is one of the best I have had the pleasure of owning, great pictures, liner notes, and the songs are released in the format that they were when they first came out, the "12 single versions and the way one songs interacts with the other is cool. It is currently out-of-print, but Amazon.com has used versions of this disc you can get for a fairly reasonable price.
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Mayville97 — 13 years ago(May 24, 2012 02:36 PM)
I have Anthology but I hate to say this, but since Donna Summer's passing, I'm sure the record company is working on a definitive collection. I would wait. I do have to agree with what others have said. Donna also had some great "non-single" songs. Example: The Dance Collection has With Your Love & Walk Away, which are great songs. Once Upon a Time has Faster & Faster & few other good songs & Love Trilogy has Wasted and Come With Me (which I love). Hope that helps!
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williams_kendall — 13 years ago(May 24, 2012 03:08 PM)
I had not thought about it that way, but the Anthology has been the best one I have had so far. But I agree with you, with her passing there has to be something great planned, another song that I loved and should be included in that definitive collection is "I Got Your Love" that beat is cool.
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wunderful_digby — 13 years ago(June 01, 2012 04:46 AM)
Honestly there are too many great tracks that could easily have been singles which have never featured on any of the compilations.
My advice: as a primer, buy Bad Girls, listen right through it a handful of times and if you're hooked then see how many tracks are on it that you wouldn't get anywhere else!
Then head in this direction: Once Upon a Time (1977), Donna Summer (1982), Love to Love You Baby (1976), A Love Trilogy (1976), I Remember Yesterday (1977), Four Seasons of Love (1976) -
pvd295 — 13 years ago(June 01, 2012 03:00 PM)
The problem with "Greatest Hits - On The Radio - Volumes 1 & 2" is that the songs are edited down in such a way that at times it's not enjoyable (they don't even use the radio edits on some hits - like 'Bad Girls'). The reason they did this was to include as many songs as possible on one side of vinyl.***
As for Summer's Geffen catalog (1980-82/1984-87) and Atlantic recordings (1989-91), she bought back her catalog in the late 90s'/early 00sand it is now in the hands of her 'estate'. The only songs which she had licensed out to her 'compilation' packages over the past decade were her 'singles'. Apparently, there are NO PLANS for the estate to re-release the Geffen and Atlantic works any time soon. (Which is a pity, since there are so many songs which have leaked out over the years - "Sometimes Like Butterflies" and "Tearin' Down These Walls" and deserve a CD release as 'bonus' tracks on the albums they were recorded for back then).
If anyone is looking to buy 'Bad Girls' invest the money (about $25) for the 2003 release: "Bad Girls : Deluxe Edition". There are no 'bonus tracks' from the recordings (except for the 'demo' of Bad Girls from 1978), but disc two also has the extended 'No More Tears' as well as other 12" singles included.
***Trivia: "Greatest Hits - On the Radio - Volumes 1 & 2" was just that. What I mean is, when it was released Summer had radio hits as well as club hits. On this collection, she included her radio hits (actually, radio 'singles' since not all were big hits) only, and left off some of her big club hits such as 'Down Deep Inside' and 'With Your Love'.
'Down Deep Inside' was added to 'Live & More' on CD, and 'With Your Love' can be found on the 1987 (now OOP) CD 'The Dance Collection'.
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