20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection (Series), Smokey Robinson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 26, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B00004YLQ0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #312,729 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

No less an authority than Bob Dylan called Smokey Robinson "America's greatest living poet." Robinson wrote or cowrote numerous Motown classics for other artists, and songs with complex, emotional lyrics such as "The Tears of a Clown," "The Tracks of My Tears," and "I Second That Emotion," that became major hits for his own group, the Miracles. A cursory knowledge of Robinson's work is essential for any fan of pop music, and that's about what you'll get from this set. It doesn't get too deep into the Miracles' incredible run of 29 Top 40 hits recorded between 1960 and 1975, but it does include the bare essentials, plus two from the early days of Robinson's solo career, and one--"Love Machine"--that the Miracles took to the top of the charts without him. --Daniel Durchholz

Product Description

The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."

To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT FOR THE BUDGET MINDED!, June 27, 2001

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Kent (Clarion, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

This collection may not be as "meaty" as "Ultimate Collection" but it provides Smokey's biggest and best hits from his solo career. His best songs were his biggest chart hits both solo and with the miracles. If you want an introduction to Smokey the solo artist then this collection if for you, if you want a longer playing cd with more songs get the "Ultimate Collection"

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buy The Ultimate Collection Instead, August 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

The Ultimate Collection and Anthology are far more complete collections. This will disappoint you.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ooh Baby Baby, Is This Set Skimpy!, March 10, 2000

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

MCA's 20th Century Masters series has only one goal in mind: to make money. Most of the releases in the series have only ten or eleven songs. For a REAL introduction to the genius of Smokey Robinson, get Motown's generous 25-track Ultimate Collection for just a couple dollars more. Sure, you won't get the three solo songs on the 20th Century Masters collection, but the inclusion of an additional 17 Sixties classics more than make up for it.