Essential Collection [Import]

Hollies | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00000JP3Q
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #539,555 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Just Like Me

2. Searchin'

3. Stay

4. Poison Ivy

5. Just One Look

6. Here I Go Again

7. Time For Love

8. Please Don't Feel So Bad

9. Yes I Will

10. So Lonely

11. I'm Alive

12. Put Yourself In My Place

13. I Can't Let Go

14. Bus Stop

15. Tell Me To My Face

16. Stop Stop Stop

17. Carrie Anne

18. King Midas In Reverse

19. Away Away Away

20. Maker

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

THE HOLLIES The Essential Collection (Deleted 1997 UK Music For Pleasure label 25-track compilation CD includes Just One Look Im Alive Bus Stop Poison Ivy Jennifer Eccles He Aint Heavy Hes My Brother and more complete with the original picture sleeve CDMFP6387)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Includes 15 hit singles, April 11, 2008

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Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Collection (Audio CD)

This budget-priced collection could not quite be called a Greatest Hits collection, or even a Best Of... After all, key hits like We're Through, Look Through Any Window, If I Needed Someone and On A Carousel are missing, and one or two tracks almost classify as Worst Of (Lullaby To Tim, seemingly sung underwater; the would-be Beatlish Time For Love; and Away Away Away, weak Carnaby Street flower-power), but it does give a good representation of what the band were like between 1963, when they signed to Parlophone, through to 1969, having gone through many changes, signing off with their Top Three hit He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother.

The album sets off in chronological order with the band's first five singles and adds as a bonus their version of Poison Ivy. This was recorded at drummer Bobby Elliott's first session with the band on 11 October 1963, which produced the single Stay, but remained unreleased until 1978 when it turned up on an Australian album, and had never been on CD until this release. Although a generous further eleven UK singles are included, after this they are interspersed with a B-side (So Lonely, the flip of Look Through Any Window) and eight album tracks. Oddly enough, although all the A-sides are in stereo (except Stay), the other nine tracks are all in mono.

The album tracks have been thoughtfully chosen, profiling their earliest group compositions (disguised under the pseudonym L. Ransford), including songs covered as singles by other artists (Put Yourself In My Place by Episode Six, and Tell Me To My Face by Keith), and their 1967 attempts at psychedelia on the albums Evolution and Butterfly. Maker is quite striking with its dominant sitar but they were soon back to the pop froth of Jennifer Eccles (who had terrible freckles, according to Scaffold). Tell Me To My Face, led by Graham Nash, isn't a million miles from the Marrakesh Express, the song he took to Crosby and Stills after the Hollies' producer rejected it.

Classic hits like I'm Alive, I Can't Let Go, Bus Stop and Stop! Stop! Stop! make this a good value buy at the right price.