Greatest Hits (Bonus CD) [Import, Limited Edition]

Elton John | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 30, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Import, Limited Edition
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B0000C5ROQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,629 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Your Song

2. Tiny Dancer

3. Honky Cat

4. Rocket Man

5. Crocodile Rock

6. Daniel

7. Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting

8. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

9. Candle In The Wind

10. Bennie And The Jets

11. Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me

12. The Bitch Is Back

13. Philadelphia Freedom

14. Someone Saved My Life Tonight

15. Island Girl

16. Dont Go Breaking My Heart

17. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

18. Blue Eyes

19. Im Still Standing

20. I Guess Thats Why They Call It The Blues

See all 45 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Limited UK edition of 2002 compilation includes a bonus disc with 11 tracks, 'Levon' (appears on the U.S), 'Border Song', 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds', 'Pinball Wizard', 'True Love' With Kiki Dee, 'Live Like Horses' With Pavarotti (Studio Version), 'I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That' (appears on the U.S.), 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me' With George Michael, 'Your Song' With Alessandro Safina, 'Sorry Seems to Be The Hardest Word' Blue Feat. Elton John, & the re-released single 'Are You Ready For Love' ('79 Version Radio Edit). Additionally, the UK edition features five tracks which don't appear on the U.S., 'Blue Eyes', 'Kiss The Bride', 'Made In England' (Radio Edit), 'This Train Don't Stop There Anymore', & 'Song For Guy', but omits 'Little Jeannie' & 'Blessed'. 45 remastered tracks in all. Rocket. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Misses Some Songs, but Better than the U.S. Collection, April 13, 2006

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Lonnie E. Holder "The Review's the Thing" (Columbus, Indiana, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Bonus CD) (Audio CD)

Elton John has been a force in music for more than 30 years. He has an incredible amount of talent, both as an author of music, and as a performer. This collection attempts to pull together some of the best of Elton's work from his career, beginning with the "Elton John" album and ending with "Songs from the West Coast".

Nearly every song on this CD is musically good to excellent. Most of these songs were hits. As a sampler of Elton's music, this collection is a very good start. This CD may have a few flaws, but it does have hits missing from the U.S. version, including "Blue Eyes," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Pinball Wizard." However, other top 10 songs are missing from this collection. It is impossible to represent Elton's greatest hits with only two CDs, and that is the main flaw of this collection.

The difficulty with most "greatest hits" collections is choosing the songs. Regardless of how good a job you do, there will be a fan who thinks a song was neglected. Conversely, there will be other fans that think a song on the collection should have been excluded. Rather than complain about what was or wasn't on this collection, the focus should be on this collection alone. At this time, this collection is the best single representation of Elton over the bulk of his career. For the songs that were missed from this collection, you can add "Rare Masters" and "Love Songs", which pick up a lot more of Elton's early career and fills in more of Elton's best.

With more than 40 albums, comprising hundreds of songs, choosing the 34 best is an absolutely terrible job. Similar to those people who would have added other songs, or subtracted some of those included, I too would have done something similar. However, we would never have agreed on the best. So take this CD as the best collection available to sample Elton's career. From that viewpoint, this CD rates 5 stars. Then you can add the other CDs I mentioned, and in the case of the classic albums and a few others, add original albums as well. We live in an imperfect world, thus a less than perfect collection of Elton's career is better than not having this collection at all.

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect; just what I wanted, March 20, 2011

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M. Lemme "johnirvinglover" (Silver City, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Hits-Special Edition (Audio CD)

The package arrived before expected. The CD case was broken, but that it typical of CD cases that hold more than one; it's a design flaw, not the fault of the seller.