The Best of Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 28, 2011)
• Original Release Date: March 9, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CAPITOL
• ASIN: B000002UR2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,153 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Known for his crazy man gyrations, sandpaper and gravel voice, and a destructive alcoholism that imbued his songs with a desperate edge, Joe Cocker set forth with a British blues sound nearly impossible to beat. This collection features his later work. The demons controlled, he's transformed himself into an adult-contemporary singer who can deliver the pathos on cue. The simple elegance of his duet with Jennifer Warnes, "Up Where We Belong," catapulted him back into the spotlight and his work since has been a graceful bow to that accomplishment. He's restrained these days but he still delivers that sad, lonely tune as only someone who's been there can. --Rob O'Connor

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The Best Of Joe Cocker (Domestic Only) by Joe Cocker

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Know What You're Buying!, July 16, 2002

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Steven R. Seim "Steve Seim" (Beaver Dam, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Joe Cocker (Audio CD)

This album isn't really the best of Joe Cocker - it's the best of slick, adult contemporary, 1980s Joe Cocker. That said, it's not without some great songs ("You Can Leave Your Hat On," "Night Calls"). But if you want classic Joe Cocker, try the "Greatest Hits," "A&M Classics," or "20th Century Masters."

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Newer songs than what's on The Anthology, November 10, 2000

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Harry Timko (Tacoma, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Joe Cocker (Audio CD)

Great CD if you're looking for some of Joe's more recent stuff (past 15 years) this is the one to get. But if you're looking for his older stuff, get the Anthology or Millenium collection. Better yet, get both! Only 2 songs from this collection are also on the Anthology. Either choice is an excellent one.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware!, September 19, 2002

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Rich May (Birmingham, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Joe Cocker (Audio CD)

Having been a Joe Cocker fan in the late 60s and the 70s, I recently realized that I had no Joe on CD (only on vinyl). After picking up his greatest album ever ("Joe Cocker!") on CD, I ordered "The Best of Joe Cocker" to bring me up to speed. One of the main reasons for getting this CD was that it contained the LIVE VERSION of "Help from My Friends." However, after receiving the CD and listening to the first few notes of "My Friends," I realized that this was NOT the live version we all know and love. The classic live version of this song done at Woodstock (as well as the studio version on his 1st LP) makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck (the way the lead to "Stairway to Heaven" always does). This version is OK, but BUYER BEWARE - it is WAY less powerful than the Woodstock version. The rest of the album is OK, but all these songs are so overproduced compared those songs exhibiting the raw energy that his earlier work had. This was a disappointing buy.