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Forever Love: Greatest Hits (Arg)

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Love 'em or hate 'em, no one can argue that Air Supply wasn't one of the most prolific and popular soft-rock presences on the airwaves during the first half of the 80's decade. This group, or duo technically, of Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell had their lush and sometimes over-the-top productions consistantly occupy the top-5 for three years. Their tunes continued to appear on the charts less consistantly in the mid-80's but there's no denying the legacy they left. As popular as they were and still are to many, there are almost as many who despise their often syrupy, Spectorian in splendor, odes to love. They are second only perhaps to the Carpenters in the degree of love-hate they elicit from music listeners both now and in their heyday on the charts.

If you are not a fan, then no collection of Air Supply's works would be of interest but for those who connect with these guys' music, selecting from the myriad of CD's available is the challange. For those seeking a "greatest hits"-type package, there are many available, however in spite of the parade of domestic collections, titles such as "ultimate" and "definitive' notwithstanding, there are still no truly complete domestic packages. For whatever reason, every domestic collection leaves off at least one of their charted hits yet with 18 or so tracks available on a CD, one wonders who is making these decisions to drop legitimate singles for b-sides and the like.

This Taiwanese import is one of the few packages that does in fact contain all the American top-100 hits, including the domestically-evasive "Lonely Is The Night", Air Supply's last charting single. Beyond the American hit singles within the 36 tracks on two discs offered here are album cuts, Asian hits, a few Russell Hitchcock solo tracks and a few cuts from their "Greatest Hits Live" album.

All in all, this represents about the best overview of Air Supply's music. Add in its decent sound quality and the substantial liner notes booklet with song-by-song commentary by Russell and Hitchcock, and you have the best overall package for these icons of 80's soft-rock and pop.

AIR SUPPLY's album used to be a must item in lovers in early 80's in JAPAN. and AIR SUPPLY is widely known as one of the finest pop music group nowadays. As you may know, many AIR SUPPLY's greatest hits CD and compilation CD have been released in recent years and FOREVER LOVE CDs are one of them. but there is a big defference between FOREVER LOVE CDs and the other greatest hits CDs. the difference is that FOREVER LOVE CDs are only greatest hits album that you can listen to the songs that have been released in past 23 years(80's-90's).In addition, these CDs contain 3 pieces from RUSSEL HICHKOCK's solo album which was released in 1988. the one of these songs, �gWhere Did The Feeling Go" is truly nice song. i think AIR SUPPLY fans who have never listened RUSSEL's solo album must get these CDs. it seems that AIR SUPPLY is known as 80's band, but if you listen to FOREVER LOVE CDs, these CDs will prove you that AIR SUPPLY is all-time great band and main composer GRAHAM RUSSEL is great songwriter.

Air supply were much bigger in America, where they had a string of big hits, than in Britain, where they had just two hits - All out of love made number eleven and Even the nights are better was a minor hit. Both of those made the top five in America, as did Lost in love, Every woman in the world, The one that you love, Here I am, Sweet dreams and Making love out of nothing at all. They had other hits in America too, including Two less lonely people in the world, Young love (an original song, not a cover of the rock'n'roll classic) and Just as I am, all included here.

Their last American hit was Power of love, the song that was originally a massive hit in several European countries for Jennifer Rush (including number one in Britain where it charted at the same time as a completely different song with the same title by Huey Lewis) and was later an American hit for Laura Branigan. Celine Dion revived the song in the nineties and had a huge hit with it in both Britain and America.

All the above-mentioned hits can be found on the first CD of this collection. The second CD includes the best of the rest of their music, showing that there was more to Air Supply's music than just the hits.

For those of you that enjoy romantic pop music, this collection should be just ideal. Fans of Bread in particular should enjoy this.

Recently i've noticed with greatest hits compilation albums, there are 1 or 2 hits which have been excluded, unfortuantley this album is no exeption! Yes you read my rating right, I still give this album 4 stars but the disappearance of "Love & Other Bruises" "Keeping The Love Alive" and "Bring Out The Magic" force me to deduct one star in order to make this a perfect compilation, but fortunatley all thier other famous hits are there. All of the 36 songs featured on it are wonderful songs to listen to when you are in a sentimental mood, especially if your heart has just been broken! Brilliantly the lyrics to Air Supply songs seem to articulate human emotions to a tea. If you're somebody who appreciates great lyrics, a lovely tune and amazing voices then this 2 cd set of Air Supply is the perfect album for you.

If you like Air Supply then this is just about all you need to hear. You never get every song any artist does on a greatest hits type collection. This is about as good as it gets. Don't pass this one over its as good as a box collection.

So you want to learn more about AS? This is for you. The perfect introduction to the band. It contains many of their best songs. A perfect solution for the casual fan!

I was so happy to be able to find this from my favorite group. It makes me want to sing and dance everytime I listen to it.

FANTASTIC! All the favourites and then some. A must-have for any true Air Supply fan.

My wife's favorite group and she just loves it. The songs are great and it has all their great songs. So what's not to like?
She wanted this for Valentines, lots of loves songs, her favorite group and Amazon had a great price. It was a no brainer. Very happy with this CD!

I HAVE LOVED AIR SUPPLY EVER SENSE I HERD "THE ONE THAT YOU LOVE" MANY YEARS AGO, I HAVE MANY LP'S, CD'S, AND CASSETTE'S!!!! THIS CD HAS A FEW SONGS THAT I DON'T HAVE. DAYBREAK, IS A AWESOME SONG SUNG BY RUSSELL, IT SHOWS OFF HIS VOCAL RANGE (WOW)!!!!! ONCE, IS THEIR FIRST INSTRUMENTAL SONG, I HOPE IT WON'T THE LAST!! STRONG STRONG WIND, IS ANOTHER WONDERFUL SONG THAT SHOWS OFF RUSSELL'S VOCAL RANGE! THIS 2 DISK CD IS WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!!!!!