Arrested Development - Greatest Hits [Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Arrested Development | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00005BCGU
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,919 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #29 in Music > Imports > Rap & Hip-Hop

Track Listings

1. People Everyday

2. Mr. Wendal

3. Tennessee

4. United Front

5. Revolution

6. Natural

7. Tell Me Something (Let Me Know)

8. Fountain of Youth

9. Can U Hear Me?

10. Africa's Inside Me

11. Shell

12. Give a Man a Fish

13. Fishin' 4 Religion

14. Mama's Always on Stage

15. Like Marvin Gaye Said (What's Going On)

16. Ease My Mind

17. Natural [Unplugged Version][*]

18. People Everyday [Unplugged Version][*]

Editorial Reviews

UK 'Best Of' for the alternative rap act & their frontman Speech. Part of the EMI Gold series. 18 tracks including the bonus cuts 'Natural'(unplugged) & 'People Everyday'(unplugged). 2001 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wheat from the chaff, July 6, 2005

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G. Phelps "whitfieldhouse, currently in China" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arrested Development - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

This collection really separates the wheat from the chaff to produce a CD with no fillers!! "Tennessee" though it stands alone as a musical and lyrical wonder, will always remind me of Wallace Steven's poem "A Jar Stands in Tennessee." Trust me; read that poem and you'll swear the diction and rhythm inspired Arrested Development!!

I feel AD was always underrated, like my other favorite band of this era, "Galliano," whose "In Pursuit of the 13th Note" is a great hip-hop-rap-melodic-pop companion to AFD's Greatist Hits.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The path not taken, October 7, 2006

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Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Arrested Development - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

In the early 1990s, groups like Arrested Development, DeLa Soul, Digable Plants, Tribe Called Quest, and the sadly forgotten Gumbo could have revolutionized rap music. Their tunes were filled with jazzy instrumentation, melodic hooks and harmonic raps, and uplifting and intelligent lyrics. Sadly, rappers chose to go down the low road of ignorance, violence, and misogyny which is where it remains today.

But AD and it's leader Speech put out some good stuff in its time. "People Everyday" (the superior remix, not the plodding album version) is included with it's funky tale of violence only being used as a last resort. "Mr. Wendal," a timely tale of sympathy for the homeless, "Tennessee" (need I say more? I listened to this repeatedly during the night of the Rodney King riots in 1992), the little known "Like Marvin Said What's Going on" which is one of the few rap songs I know of with an organ solo, and "Ease My Mid" (with a Pigmeat Markham sample-imagine that?).

It is sad that one of rap's most creative and wonderful groups did not last, but at least you have this CD. Get it and enjoy to see the path rap unfortuantely did not take.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good set, July 11, 2002

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A customer "mistermaxxx" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arrested Development - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

this Disc combines AD's first two Album's&Speech's Solo Album.there first Album unto itself was a Greatest Hits Package.alot of Cool Songs that fit really well on that Album.but sadly they never recovered on any follow up&neither did Speech as a Solo Artist but I heard they are getting back together time will tell if they can even half-way Recapture there early Magic?