Ultimate Collection (CD & Dvd)

Keith Green | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 19, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sparrow
• ASIN: B000075A86
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,288 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Put Your Love in My Heart

2. I Can't Believe It

3. Oh Lord, You're Beautiful

4. I Want to Be More Like Jesus

5. Your Love Broke Through

6. Make My Life a Prayer to You

7. Asleep in the Light

8. My Eyes Are Dry

9. Soften Your Heart

10. He'll Take Care of the Rest

11. You Are the One!

12. So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt

13. Run to the End of the Highway

14. Grace by Which I Stand

15. There Is a Redeemer

16. You!

17. Here Am I, Send Me

18. Rushing Wind

19. Jesus Commands Us to Go!

20. Pledge My Head to Heaven

Customer Reviews

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78 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fine intro to a legend..., December 31, 2002

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Daniel L Edelen (Mt. Orab, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultimate Collection (CD & Dvd) (Audio CD)

If you've never once before heard Keith Green, this new collection of some of his better songs - as if there were ANY lesser songs in his impressive portfolio - is a great place to start. That this CD set is reasonably priced and includes a DVD covering the late singer/songwriter's biography makes it a unique combo for those who are green to Green.

Keith Green came out of nowhere in the late Seventies and set the Christian music scene on fire. That more than twenty years after his death you can still buy everything he put out is testament to his enduring music and message. His was a contribution to Christianity unseen since his passing.

Some considered Keith a prophet, and when compared to the .... music being passed off to the Christian masses today, he indeed seems like John the Baptist on piano. Indeed, many Christian music stations still religiously play Keith's worship songs pieces while routinely avoiding songs like "Asleep in the Light" (included on this collection), "No One Believes In Me Anymore" (actually an anti-Satan song), and "You Love the World (and You're Avoiding Me)". The ministry he founded, Last Days Ministries, still exists and publishes some of Keith's more incendiary tracts and teachings. If you have never heard Keith preach, he's a revelation.

This is not to say he's all fire and brimstone. In fact, he brought a lighthearted humor to his music. Case in point: the song "So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt" (included in this collection) is a wickedly funny take on the grumbling that occurred right after the Hebrews' flight from Pharoah's oppression. His vibrant joy streams through the stereo on (included) songs like "He'll Take Care of the Rest" and "You Put This Love in My Heart."

More than any other Christian artist, Keith Green touches people in ways rarely seen. I can truly say that his music, even after his death more than twenty years ago in a plane crash, still reaches deep into the soul. There are songs of his I have heard a hundred times and they still bring a tear to my eye.

But the best thing that can be said of Keith Green's music is that is made for adults. On songs such as "My Eyes Are Dry" and "Grace By Which I Stand" (included here) he sings as a man who has seen the good and the bad, learning the way of Christ in the deserts of life. It is not simplistic, boring, or stifled theologically. There's more meat in two verses of what Green sings than in entire Christian albums today. You can't hear his music and not be quickened.

Some would say that Keith's more contemporary (and strangely enough, also tragically dead at the height of his work) compadre was Rich Mullins. If you like Mullins, then Keith Green is the next step up. Beyond those two (and possibly Larry Norman) there is a gaping hole unfilled on the current Christian music scene.

One star has to be kept back, though, since it is possible to purchase the pair of 2-CD "Keith Green: The Ministry Years" CDs that contain everything he ever committed to tape (including a couple bootlegs.) Those four CDs are a revelation. However, let's give that star back since this collection includes a DVD that covers Green's ministry. Call it a wash.

If you want music that is joyful, soul-stirring, convicting, and just downright excellent, "The Ultimate Collection" is a great way to grow while enjoying great music at the same time.

(Note: I have not seen the DVD. Still, it's icing on the cake and can only help one to understand the man behind the superb musical vision.)

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keith is the real deal, January 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Ultimate Collection (CD & Dvd) (Audio CD)

I was never a "fan" of Keith Green back when he was still on this earth. I didn't dislike his music, but never pursued it beyond second-hand glimpses. I heard Keith, really, for the first time last week, as the CD played in the background while my husband wrote a review for local paper. We then watched the companion DVD and I was hooked as I perceived the passion with which Keith (& Melody) lived. Today I listened to the whole CD again and could listen over and over. Keith's sound is infectiously joyful; but he knows that there's a "time to cry" as well. He sings the true gospel. I'm sorry, but I haven't heard much modern Christian music that compares with this. The church is, as Keith said, "asleep in the light."

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good CD But Still Lacking..., December 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Ultimate Collection (CD & Dvd) (Audio CD)

The idea of a DVD with Keith Green is a good one, however The Ultimate Collection CD lacks some of Keith's greatest songs.

Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Keith Green's: "The Ministry Years" It's well worth the purchase.

It's not difficult to put together your own Keith Green Collection, all of his songs were anointed and filled with holy passion. "The Ultimate Collection" however does not live up to its title. The DVD that comes with it is a nice addition for those who interested in getting an in depth view of what Keith nd Melody's ministry was all about. But if your looking for an "Ultimate Collection" of Keiths music try the 2 Disc Keith Green: The Ministry Years...There's "no compromise"