Best of Le MEILLEUR - Tina Arena [Import]

Tina Arena | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 7, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Columbia Europe
• ASIN: B001S3QT8U
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,370 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Aller Plus Haut

2. I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You

3. Aimer Jusqu'à l'Impossible

4. I Want to Know What Love Is

5. Les 3 Cloches

6. Je M'Appelle Bagdad

7. Night Fever

8. Tu Es Toujours Là

9. Entends-Tu le Monde? [Adaptation de Siiw]

10. Live (For the One I Love)

11. Symphony of Life

12. Chains

13. Un Pour l'Autre

14. 7 Vies

15. Tu Pourras Dire

16. Tu Auras Dû Me Dire (Oser Parler d'Amour)

17. Et Puis Après

18. This Universe

19. Out Here on My Own [*]

Editorial Reviews

2009 compilation from the Australian singer, songwriter and performer containing songs sung in both French and English. Over her two decade long career, Arena has won numerous awards, most notably five ARIA Awards (the Australian equivalent of the Grammy) and, in both 1996 and 2000, she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist. Features 18 tracks including duets with Patrick Fiori ('Out Here On My Own') and Henri Salvador ('Et Puis Apres'). Columbia

Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could offer more for completists., June 16, 2009

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This review is from: Best of Le MEILLEUR - Tina Arena (Audio CD)

If you have previous releases - Un Autre Univers, 7 Vies, Greatest Hits 2004 w/bonus disc, In Deep, and Souvenirs - you've got most of this. Perhaps this is a good way to sample her French songs if you're on a budget, but those were all good albums and I'd recommend the full CDs more than most of her other releases anyway.
But, considering Greatest Hits was almost all radio versions, you'd think they'd have made some effort to include the radio versions here. Nope. Tu Es Toujours La is the radio/video mix, which is nice, but that's all, everything else are album cuts. I was hoping for the radio versions of Les Trois Cloches or Aller Plus Haut, which I think have only been released on CD single. And I Want To Know What Love Is and Chains are also here in the album rather than radio cuts. And for some strange reason, the full English Symphony of Life is included here, rather than Symphonie De L'ame, the French-English adaptation.

Thus, the only really new things brought to the table are Night Fever, This Universe, and Out Here On My Own. Night Fever must be leftover from Songs of Love and Loss; it's just a straight cover of the Bee Gee's disco song. And I'm not a fan of disco. This Universe is definitely the best, a breezy uptempo track that seems slightly reminiscient of her Just Me material, though strangely it's in English...you'd think they'd have done a new French bonus track for this collection. And Out Here On My Own is typical schmaltzy wedding song stuff, but admittedly it's not even her best duet...once again, it's fully in English, and Patrick Fiori's pronunciation isn't quite up to snuff. Then again, I'm not a francophone, so I can't say how accurate her French is either.

So not exactly worthwhile for an above-average collector. Again, a good introduction to her material, but her full albums are worth purchasing instead.
If you want to just pop in one CD instead of five, it's certainly the best highlights and almost all good songs instead of filler, but in this day and age of iPods and playlists, it may be moot.

One final note: Some sites say this has 18 tracks, but there are actually 19...the final addition is nothing new, just Et Puis Apres from Un Autre Univers.