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As a Suzi Quatro fan from the mid-70s, I was absolutely astounded to discover this virtual treasure from the woman who started it all in rock and roll. While others may have come first, Suzi was the first total female rock and roll package, and this album proves it, from the raucus "Can the Can," to the beautiful"Honky Tonk Downstairs." It has hard rock, and mellow melodies. Like the title implies, this is an absolute essential for any Suzi Quatro fan. The best money I've spent in quite some time. My life is definitely better because of this compilation. Buy it. Enjoy it. Rock on, Suzi.

"This is a quite a different compliation to most of the other Suzi Quatro compliations, this has not just been thrown together. It defines Suzi and her music just that bit better.

Despite her persona as a TV-sitcom rocker, Suzi is less Leather Tuscadero on these tracks and more a female Mick Jagger. She struts all over the cover tunes and makes them her own(reportedly Elvis himself loved her version of "Heartbreak Hotel"), and it's very nice to see rare songs like "Evie" and "Roxy Roller" here. Bravo to this Australian double-CD, it gets the song selection right. A-

I love Suzi Quatro and this love lasts already for many years. This collection represents really the best Suzi Quatro hits over all these years. As it was already mentioned in some reviews her style has been changing over the years but still there is something in her performance that is always there. It is always geniune rock n' roll. I believe majority of US rock fans are not familiar with Suzi Quatro and this CD is a very good introduction. I really can't think about anything I would like to add to the list of best songs on this CD

She's soft. She's hard. She's everything in between. This CD gives you a chance to sample both vintage Quatro and some of her later stuff. Rumor has it that she has sold more than 45 *million* albums during her long musical career. If you listen to this CD, you'll know why. Before long you'll be singing along with her.

There are some cool tracks here. Her rendition of "Heartbreak Hotel" shows you what happens when you apply a woman's touch to a typically male rock number. Sweet! In her other rock numbers like "Your Mama Won't Like Me" and "Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo", she belts out that rebellious-sounding rip that both taunts and tempers like fresh jalapeno mixed with guacamole, i.e., hot yet smooth.

If you're only going to buy one Suzi Quatro CD, this is the one to get.

I must admit to having a poster of Suzi upon my bedroom wall when I was in my teens. I thought she was just it! This double CD features all the hits and some outstanding covers. I just love her versions of Heartbreak Hotel, All Shook Up & Trouble (she is a huge Elvis fan). For the Suzi Quatro fan who wants to replace their old L.P.s with CDs but can't afford or find all the albums this is the Essential Suzi Quatro.

From the raw garage band sound , to the slick , sometimes over synthesized later stuff , this double set is essential to a collection . If you are only going to buy one , this is the one ! Obviously you are a Quatro Fan if you came this far! I don't need to explain any thing else then. Anyone know where I can find FANNY discs?

It shows an excellent example of Suzi Quatro's musical versatility and her individualistic energetic style, while leading the listener down memory lane to relive the past. Definitely a must for every Suzi Quatro music buff... Enjoy!

I have not listened to these songs for years.
After listening, I was not too excited.

In Australia, where harsh environmental conditions preclude the development of the hyperfeminine singer/songwriter (even of less expressive confessional folkies), there has for a great many years been an unfortunate market for pseudo-macho women rockers. For this, this set of songs is undoubtedly to blame.
Marketed as a glam rocker, Suzi Quatro was in reality a prefabricated hit machine that was no doubt designed to shock - but did not because her music was so appealing to a country raised for two decades on exactly the simple rock and roll Quatro was playing. Chinn and Chapman, who wrote all of her many Australian hit singles, had been hired with explicitly that purpose and intent, and the songs they wrote had clear appeal to Australia's youth and female populations.

Worst of all is the horrible "48 Crash", whose backing vocals really come across as badly as would a radio announcement trying to masquerade as music, but there is equally little to be said for almost all of the other material here. Without variation, Quatro copied what male rockers had been doing back in the fifties, but imaged herself as "the wild one" in a way women had not beforehand. Her voice is not as unpleasant as Joan Jett or Alanis Morrisette but does strike one as distant: the whole thing is essentially a show-off.

This "wild" and hyper-glossy image had so much impact on such women as Joan Jett, Pat Benatar and Alanis Morrisette - all of whom have reproduced the same pseudo-macho sneering for a teenage audience - that Quatro must be seen as an unfortunate influence. Whilst this might be inevitable in Australia, elsewhere there is little excuse.