Spark To A Flame - Very Best Of

Chris De Burgh | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: PID
• ASIN: B000006Y1W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #507,297 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. This Waiting Heart

2. Don't Pay the Ferryman

3. Much More Than This

4. Sailing Away

5. The Lady in Red

6. Borderline

7. Say Goodbye to It All

8. Spanish Train

9. Patricia the Stripper

10. Ship to Shore

11. Missing You

12. Diamond in the Dark

13. Tender Hands

14. A Spaceman Came Travelling

15. Where Peaceful Waters Flow

16. High on Emotion

Editorial Reviews

Canadian 'Best Of' for the adult contemporary vocalist. 16 tracks including 'The Lady In Red' and 'Spanish Train'. 1989release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing singer/songwriter, January 25, 2001

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G. Sawaged - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spark to a Flame - The Very Best of (Audio CD)

Chris De Burgh is as much a story teller as he is a singer. It's amazing how a song can tell such a powerful story, and this cd is full of such songs, whether they be love songs or dark, creepy songs like "Spanish Train" and "Don't pay the ferryman". Then there's the fun "Patricia the Stripper" and the unique concept on the birth of Jesus on "A Spaceman came calling". Chris De Burgh really does have an amazing knack with lyrics, and he has one of the best voices in pop. This is a fantastic album and highly recommended. 16 page booklet contains all lyrics and a couple of photos of Chris.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best "Best of", January 29, 2006

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J. Houzet "wozamoya" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spark to a Flame - The Very Best of (Audio CD)

Several Chris de Burgh retrospectives have been released over the years, but this "Best of" compilation from 1989 is still the best collection of his work, offering tracks from a good selection of albums. It only covers the seventies and eighties, but those are really the only decades of de Burgh's work worth covering, when he wrote his most memorable songs. It also includes two new releases (at that time): "This Waiting Heart" and "Diamond in the Dark." "Waiting Heart" is especially catchy.
I notice that the song line-up on Spark to a Flame has been changed since its original release. Originally the album The Getaway from 1981 was strongly (perhaps overly) represented with five tracks: "Don't Pay the Ferryman," "Borderline," "The Getaway," "Ship to Shore," and "Where Peaceful Waters Flow." "Getaway" has since been dropped and Spanish Train & Other Stories is now better represented, although I wouldn't have included "Patricia the Stripper" on a greatest hits album. It's a fun, quirky song, but hardly a great song. But of course "Spanish Train" had to be included, and I love the song "A Spaceman Came Travelling."
This is also the only place you can hear the full version of "Borderline" segue into its sequel "Say Goodbye to It All," from Into the Light. That was a novel and brilliant thing Chris did, to have a song sequel years later and sample the closing lines of his earlier song before launching into the new song. "Lady in Red" was an obvious choice for this album - it's still Chris' biggest hit. But two other songs from Into the Light have been trimmed from this edition, namely, "Fire on the Water" and "One Word."
The rousing "High on Emotion" and gentle "Much More Than This" represent the album Man on the Line fairly adequately, though there are other songs from that album that were also worthy of being on a "Best of." Then there are three songs from the very successful Flying Colors album: "Sailing Away," "Missing You" and "Tender Hands."
The albums by Chris that I think are neglected here are Eastern Wind and At the End of a Perfect Day. I just love the song "In a Country Churchyard." It should be on this album. And people might also lament the absence of "Crusader" from the album of the same name. But all in all it's a good representation of Chris de Burgh's work.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good album to learn Chris de Burgh`s music, September 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Spark To A Flame - Very Best Of (Audio CD)

Please listen to the lyrics carefully. You will find amazing tastes. If this is the first album you listened to from Chris and if you liked it and want to try more; you should go back and listened to "Spanish Train and other Stories", "Getaway" and "Eastern Wind"... And then "Into the Light". He is great and very talented.