Very Best of [Extra tracks, Import]

Cher | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 3, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Wea Int'l
• ASIN: B0009A1BRC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,287,943 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Believe

2. Strong Enough

3. If I Could Turn Back Time

4. I Found Someone

5. Song for the Lonely

6. Walking in Memphis

7. Just Like Jesse James

8. One by One

9. Live and Understanding

10. Save Up All Your Tears

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

2. Heart of Stone

3. Dov'è l'Amore

4. The Music's No Good Without You

5. Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves

6. Half-Breed

7. Dark Lady

8. I Got You Babe

9. The Beat Goes On

10. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

International 2 CD version featuring all studio tracks (the US equivalent features one CD of studio tracks & one CD of live tracks). Warner Strategic Marketing's 'The Very Best of Cher' is finally the Cher collection that gets it right, presenting a fully rounded portrait of her long, winding, multi-label career. It contains hits from every aspect of her career, from Sonny & Cher's 'I Got You Babe' to her 1999 comeback, 'Believe' & beyond to the new, Rodney Jerkins-produced 'A Different Kind of Love Song'. This does have all the big hits, 'If I Could Turn Back Time', 'Just Like Jesse James', 'After All', 'I Found Someone', 'The Shoop Shoop Song', 'All I Really Want to Do', 'Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)', 'Half-Breed', 'Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves', among them. 42 tracks. WSM. 2003. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars at last a proper greatest hits!, September 5, 2005

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R. Lymer (Somerset, uk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

This is the greatest hits with the same cover as the 2 other simpler versions. But don't let it fool you as this is an australian import which gets it right with a full 42 tracks in total. This is a must have with nearly 2 1/2 hours of music. Excellent value, pity it hasn't been noticed by too many people! Many songs including quite a few 70's tracks right up to the last album with 5 of its tracks on this cd from "living proof". Some quite rare songs on here to that not many people would have heard before, check it out!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Cher Collection To Own, June 6, 2004

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Jake Z "holden84" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

This is the Cher compilation to buy. There is none out there that is as comprehensive as this one. Buy the Canadian import (this version) because it contains a lot of tracks (heck a whole other disc) that were not on the US version. This version came out in Canada shortly after I saw Cher in concert in Calgary on August 25th. A night I'll never forget. She is a class act, and when you listen to this collection, you understand why she's been around so long, and still has staying power. She's been through so many changes throughout her career, some things have worked, others haven't, but she's still Cher. Everything from her current hits like "Song For The Lonely", "Believe", "A Different Kind of Love Song", "All Or Nothing", to her 80s work including "Heart of Stone", "We All Sleep Alone", "If I Could Turn Back Time", her 70s work including "Take Me Home", "Dark Lady", and her duets with then husband Sonny Bono such as "I Got You Babe", "Baby Don't Go", and many others. Overall a very comprehensive collection, THE Cher collection to own!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars History of Pop according to Cher, February 19, 2005

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Pawel Kasa (Pablo Diablo) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

The queen of extravaganza and spectacular comebacks sums up on album "The Very Best Of" astonishing forty years of her career, which brought unforgettable worldwide hits in as many as five decades! No other star achieved this status as a solo artist.

This is a full two-CD version of this compilation with 42 songs - almost all her European & US hits from all labels she recorded for and some rarities as well. Fans can also find here all 5 US Top 10 hits recorded in duo Sonny & Cher, what is brilliant completion of this collection.

It's an almost excellent compilation. Almost, because it should contain all Cher's (also recorded with Sonny) Top 20 hits from the charts in the USA (Hot 100 and Singles Sales from "Billboard") and in the UK. Unfortunately her record company decided to put some less successful songs. It means that songs: "Train Of Thought", "Save Up All Your Tears", "Not Enough Love In The World", "Alive Again" or even not released as singles "Bang Bang" in new version and "Love Hurts" should be replaced by: "You Better Sit Down Kid", "Love One Another" and recorded with Sonny "Just You", "But You're Mine", "What Now My Love" and "Little Man". Anyway, it's still excellent compilation, because all Cher's songs are great.

And the real treasures for every fan are rare songs: "Bad Love" from the 1980 movie "Foxes" with Jodie Foster, "Rudy" from underrated 1982 album "I Paralyze", a charity 1993 UK #1 single "Love Can Build A Bridge" recorded with Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton, "Born With The Hunger" from unique 2000 album "not.commercial" and a 2001 duet with Eros Ramazzotti "Piu che puoi". Adding these rarities was much better idea than recording brand new songs.

Cher has released so many collections of hits so far that her every fan should be very exacting in selecting the best one. "The Very Best Of" is the most perfect, because it sums up forty years of her career. Of course, it's better to choose its comprehensive double CD version with 42 songs. But if you want to have only the most important hits of Cher, you can choose one-CD US version of this title or its special two-CD edition with bonus live disc from her farewell tour, to have these hits in both studio and live versions. It's a music feast for every fan of pop music. That's why Cher is so much successful artist so long. Let's enjoy!