Singles [Import, Live]

Alison Moyet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Columbia Europe
• ASIN: B000024UO6
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #434,543 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

2. Only You

3. Nobody's Diary

4. Winter Kills

5. Love Resurrection

6. All Cried Out

7. Invisible

8. That Ole Devil Called Love

9. Is This Love

10. Weak in the Presence of Beauty

11. Ordinary Girl

12. Love Letters

13. It Won't Be Long

14. Wishing You Were Here

15. This House

16. Falling

17. Whispering Your Name

18. Getting Into Something

19. Ode to Boy II

20. Solid Wood

Editorial Reviews

Import only pressing for the throaty voiced vocalist who formerly teamed with Vince Clarke in Yaz. The 20-track Singles Collection is augmented with a bonus 11-track live CD. Sony.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Utter bliss!, September 6, 2000

By 

T. Kavanagh "tony" (Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singles (Audio CD)

Alison Moyet is a singer and songwriter of rare talent and has graced several genres in her career to date. Using her voice almost as an instrument, Alison adds real warmth to three Yaz tracks. Velvety smooth on the Vince Clarke-penned pop gem 'Only You' and her own compostion, 'Nobody's Diary'. Zesty and feisty on 'Situation', a song she co-wrote. I can't think of another singer who could humanise eletronic music in quite the same way. Comparing Alison with, say, Annie Lennox is like comparing velvet with glass.

The middle section of the album covers Alison's first two solo albums ('Alf' and 'Raindancing'). Commercially, this was her heyday and, in the UK, she was feted as the best pop singer around and rightly ruled the UK charts. Artistically, her best work was yet to come and the 90's singles really show the woman off. Her refusal to compromise may have slowed her chart performances a bit but the quality is most definitely there. Listen to 'It Won't Be Long', 'Ode To Boy', 'Falling'.... Gritty, powerhouse vocals over genuinely intelligent lyrics. None of your two-bit Morrissette angst here. We're talking color, verve and imagination. The gorgeous ache of her own composition, 'This House'... The real-world romance of 'Wishing You Were Here'.... Then the campy Broadway disco of 'Whispering Your Name'.... The power in her guitar-led version of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' will lift your soul. I'm telling you, this is great stuff!

What ever you do, make sure you get this special edition with the 11-track live CD. Subtitled 'No Overdubs', this bonus collection showcases a REAL singer who can pull an audience along with her no matter what. The sheer beauty of 'Dorothy' and the earthiness of 'Getting Into Something' really deliver the goods. Moyet also takes a smattering of cover versions and makes them utterly her own: the smokey late-night jazz of 'Love Letters'... The down-home blues of 'Chain of Fools'... And listen to how she commandeers 'There Are Worse Things I Could Do', wiping the floor with the 'Grease' original.

The great news is that a new album is scheduled for release in January 2001. Hopefully its success will prompt the re-release of her two finest albums to date, 'Hoodoo' and 'Essex'. This 2CD set should tide you over nicely until then.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Half Good, April 9, 2011

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Claymore - See all my reviews

This review is from: Singles (Audio CD)

Alison Moyet is best suited to the studio. The first CD is good, however the second "Live" CD in this collection is too much of a departure from her previously known work. The producer for the second Live CD should be shot & shot again. She clearly deserved better. Her talent is undisputed but it must be harnessed and not allowed to run wild. I look forward to her going back to her earlier commercial success with the YAZ sound. I wish her the best in her future.

4.0 out of 5 stars Singles, January 11, 2010

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Bjorn Viberg (European Union) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Singles (Audio CD)

Singles being Moyet compilation and includes songs both during her time with Yazoo and her solo career. Moyet's vocals can be said to be one of the best in the business and she sings with heartfelt conviction. Tracks that standout are situation and love resurrection and invisible. Allmusic gave the album 4.5/5. The book let is very sparse and contains no lyrics, and a few photographs. 4/5.