Super Hits

Rosanne Cash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: February 17, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Columbia/ Sony
• ASIN: B000002C55
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,498 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Time for an anthology, April 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Super Hits (Audio CD)

For those who are not real fans of Roseanne Cash, this would probably be more than sufficient for them. However, most of us who really enjoy the music or Roseanne Cash would appreciate it if the record labels would quit mocking fans with these stripped down compilations. As of right now, the following songs are either impossible to find on CD or are not available on a compilation of Roseanne Cash including the Top 20 hits "It Hasn't Happened Yet" and "Couldn't Do Nothin' Right" and the Top 10 classics "Ain't No Money", "Second To No One" and "It's Such A Small World" (in print, but not on a Roseanne Cash compilation). At present, it is difficult to even find the CD's of hers anywhere at all, though I remember seeing the original albums back in the 1990's. Though it is good that "Right Or Wrong", "Seven Year Ache" and "Kings Record Shop" remain in print, the fact is that the cost of these records on CD combined with the lack of present interest will only lead to these, too being discontinued. It is fair that since many of her biggest songs are now over 20 years old, it is time for a real compilation...a complete anthology. Here would be the song listing for a Roseanne Cash Anthology:

(All top 40 songs listed are #1 except where indicated*)

No Memories Hangin' Round (with Bobby Bare)*
Couldn't Do Nothin' Right*
Take Me, Take Me*
Seven Year Ache
My Baby Think's He's A Train
Blue Moon With Heartache
Ain't No Money*
I Wonder*

It Hasn't Happened Yet*
I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me
Never Be You
Hold On*
Second To No One*
The Way We Make A Broken Heart
Tennessee Flat Top Box
It's Such A Small World
If You Change Your Mind
Runaway Train
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Black And White*
What We Really Want*

...and for a truly complete collection, the following less known songs would also be included:

Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
One Step Over The Line
On The Surface
The Wheel

A truly talented artist like Roseanne Cash, for better or for worse, should eventually have a complete collection rather than cheat fans out of the opportunity to have all of her great songs on crystal clear CD quality sound. Thus is why I only give 3 stars to this CD.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 10 #1 Hits on one disc, it doesn't get any better., October 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Super Hits (Audio CD)

The original greatest hits package HITS 1979-1989, gave a good but incomplete retrospective of Rosanne Cash's recordings. SUPER HITS revisits that period, and adds the two missing #1 hits "If You Change Your Mind", and "Runaway Traing" from the KING'S RECORD SHOP(1987) album. The album puts the songs in chronological order, starting with her own song "Seven Year Ache", and concluding with her interpetation of Tthe Beatles "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party". Each and every song is a winner. The ultra-classic "Seven Year Ache" was the best way to start this album. There are her ballads, her rock songs, and her country songs. Add that up to ten #1 hits on the same album. Unfortunately the definition of SUPER HITS causes the loss of some jewels like "No Memories Hangin' Round" (from RIGHT OR WRONG), and "Hold On" (from RYTHYM AND ROMANCE) that were on HITS 1979-1989, (I can do without "I Wonder" and "Black And White") but the additions of "If You Change Your Mind" and "Runaway Train" are definately welcome. SUPER HITS comes HIGHLY RECOMMENED, buy it and you'll hear why.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Sampler of a Great Talent, November 8, 2004

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Gregor von Kallahann - See all my reviews

This review is from: Super Hits (Audio CD)

Glancing at a couple of the reviews below, I gather that some fans were a bit miffed that this budget "best of" sampler a. was not the more comprehensive anthology that Rosanne merits and b. (and this from a 2001 review)its release seemed to herald the withdrawal of much of her original catalog from the market. Well, three years later, it appears from the Amazon listing that most, if not all, of the original releases are currently available (with at least two titles available as a "twofer"). And while there's no box set at present, there is at least a somewhat more comprehensive "best of" package as well.

Bargain "greatest hits" packages make a certain commercial sense. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose curiousity is piqued by a good bargain sampler and who in turn will seek out and purchase other (full price) items by the artist in question. I had heard a number of Rosanne's tunes over the years, but it took sitting down and listening to this great little package to win me over (and kick myself for having missed out all these years).

I remember liking "Seven Year Ache" back in the day, and up until recently, that probably would have been the only Rosanne Cash song I could have named if you held a gun to my head. That song like much of the selection here has something of a So.Cal. country rock sheen to it (a la Ronstadt/Asher), which is to say it's tasty if a little slick. But to even out the mix, there are also a number of more trad. styled numbers, like the clever "
My Baby Thinks He's a Train" and her dad's own "Tennessee Flat Top Box." Rosanne seems at home in either setting, although, I have to say that in my case, the rootsier stuff was pretty much what won my heart.

When I mentioned to a friend that Rosanne was my latest discovery, she mentioned that she was a old fan, intrigued as she was by Rosanne's writing abilities (and that much is evident even in this limited sample), her bad girl past (about which I know nothing, but hey, she's John's daughter, so you gotta expect a bit of hellraising in her history), AND her compelling "less than perfect voice." Well, I told her, from what I can tell, her voice is just about perfect for the material she selects, which is about all you can ask for. After all, knowing your limitations is part and parcel of being a good singer. And Rosanne Cash is indeed a good singer.