Respect: The Very Best of [Import]

Aretha Franklin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Spec. Mkt. UK
• ASIN: B000066SBB
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,004 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings

1. Respect

2. Think

3. Spanish Harlem

4. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

5. I Say A Little Prayer

6. Son Of A Preacher Man

7. I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)

8. Chain Of Fools

9. Dont Play That Song (You Lied)

10. Angel

11. Border Song (Holy Moses)

12. Rock Steady

13. See Saw

14. The House That Jack Built

15. Oh No Not My Baby

16. Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)

17. Good Times

18. Since Youve Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)

19. Youre All I Need To Get By

20. Aint Nothing Like The Real Thing

See all 43 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Digitally Remastered 43 Track Double Disc Career Retrospective, the First that Encompasses the Queen of Soul's Best Recordings for Both her Hit Labels Atlantic and Arista! from her First Hit Single in the 60's ('i Never Loved a Man (The Way I Loved You') to her Last of the 20th Century ('a Rose is Still a Rose', Written and Produced by Lauryn Hill), These Two Discs have Every Essential Track and Makes for One of the Most Concise Retrospectives of a Major Artist Ever Released. All the Biggest and the Best Are Here, So Just Take Your Pick, You Can't Go Wrong. Franklin is the Diva's Diva, a Woman who Has Graced the Charts with a Spirit and Voice that is Simply Like No Other and is Unequalled in Power, Strength and Versatility. The Title She Bears as Queen of Soul is No Accident and Not Wantonly Applied...she Simply is Musical Royalty.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of a Breathtaking Career April 8, 2003

By Pieter Uys HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER

Format:Audio CD

This excellent collection of hit singles amply demonstrates the major contribution the Queen of Soul made to popular music over almost forty years. On Disc One, my personal favourites include her amazing interpretation of Spanish Harlem which was a huge hit in 1971, the vocally innovative Chain Of Fools, the urgent Don't Play That Song, and the lovely lilting You're All I Need To Get By. Disc Two kicks of with her assertive Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, the powerful duet with Annie Lennox which saw her re-establishing herself in the middle 1980s and includes the catchy Freeway Of Love from the same period. It also contains her beautiful versions of The Beatles' Let It Be and Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water from the early 70s. In the sixties, Aretha's soul was more rootsy than Motown, in other words, you had to work a little bit harder to fully appreciate it, but when Disco arrived in the mid 70s, her star faded a bit since she never really had consistent commercial success in that era. But her return in the eighties saw some great music again, like the album from which Freeway Of Love was drawn. This is a comprehensive compilation of her greatest hits and always a pleasure to listen to. Not many artists have such an impressve portfolio or have consistently made such brilliant music over more than 4 decades.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great selection, but... April 28, 2007

By Gale M. Green

Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase

My only complaint is that there is noticeable tape hiss on a few of the songs. I listen a lot on a portable stereo,

so it was quite easy to pick up.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Queen Indeed January 11, 2006

By Shane

Format:Audio CD

There's been only one of her. She is by far one of the greatest vocalists and artists of all time. The soul genre shook under the feet of this mighty woman (thats not a dig at her weight - I swear), for hers was the mightiest of voices, and it has never been captured better, than on this collection.

Granted, Aretha is one of those singers that with almost every song sung offered an essential piece of music to cherish and remember, however, most fans of her music (and i am one for sure) can still never be without her hits. They're all here. A one disc collection of her recorded work is, frankly, a joke - unless part of a series - like Rhino's The Very Best of Aretha Franklin '60's and '70's CD's. However, a two disc set is fairly acceptable, and this is the best you will find.

Combining the lady's many Atlantic hits, and some slight rarities, as well as her Arista power house throw downs, is a God-send, that any fan will adore, and sew a special pocket on all their clothes for its carriage so as to never be without it(maybe, or is it just me?).

Although thats not to say that only fans would appreciate this collection. I'm sure any more casual fan of, say, Respect or Think or Chain of Fools (which i assume anyone with ears is), would highly likely fall head over heels in love with much of the material included here.

Therefore, it is my recommendation that everybody buy this CD. And might I suggest that if you like this you buy some of her remastered reissued original albums, so as to hear the overlooked gems on each.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Buy. February 7, 2009

By Morten Vindberg

Format:Audio CD

This double CD release covers 30 years of Aretha Franklin's career from the first 1967 Atlantic recordings till "A Rose is Still a Rose" from 1997. Although there is no strict chronology in the running order, on CD 1 emphasis has been put on the early years from 1967-71, and this is also where the majority of musical pearls are to be found. It is a pure pleasure to re-listen to classics like "Do Right Woman," "Son of a preacher Man", "Respect," "Chain of Fools," "Think," "A Natural Woman" and all the other great songs there.

Numbers Like Elton John's "Border Song", the Beatles' "Let it Be" and many of the other covers of well-known classics become something completely different and exciting when they are exposed to Franklin's interpretations.

CD 2 is logically a more uneven affair including early tracks alongside more recent recordings. Her later material is generally does not live up to the high standards of the early recordings with producer Jerry Wexler.

There are, however, exceptions like the Eurytmics collaboration "Sisters are Doing it for themselves" and Stevie Wonder's "Until You Come Back to Me".

Among the early songs on CD 2 "Dark End of the Street" and "People Get Ready" stand out

A very good buy if you just want a broad range of Franklin best numbers, but it may also very well turn into an appetizer for getting some of her early classic albums as "Never Loved a Man," "Lady Soul", "Aretha Now" or "This Girl's in Love".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it! January 7, 2007

By A. Taylor

Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase

I came across this looking for a birthday gift for my mother. I was having really hard time trying to think of something. Seeing as her birthday is on Christmas Eve, then had to think of something to give to her for Christmas. These cd's where perfect!!

My mom always talks about the music she used to listen, but she doesn't even have a cassettee tape or even a vinyl record of any of the music she listened to from her childhood through her adulthood. Giving her these cd's was the best idea every. She actually cried!!!! My mom told me listening to these songs, she could remeber who she was with, where she was, and what she was wearing, when she heards the songs that Aretha sang.

The price was great, considering you got two cd's. And they deliveried the day before her birthday.

So, if your looking for a gift to give someone, who always talks about the music they used to listen to, but they don't have any of it, and they love Aretha Franklin. This is the perfect gift.