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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!

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!

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!

This is one of the most awesome compilations of songs spanning Cher's decades-long career! From the earliest to the most recent of her hits, this CD has it all. Highly recommended for any Cher fan. I just hope she keeps on recording so that one day a huge box set will become available. Enjoy the CD!

Definately the best Cher compilation out there, hands down. But to have made it perfect, they should have included "Where Do You Go," "Alfie" (both top 40 hits), "You Better Sit Down Kid" (a top ten hit), "Living In A House Divided" (another top 40 hit), maybe "Don't Hide Your Love," "I Saw A Man And He Danced With His Wife," "Wasn't It Good," "Hell On Wheels" and "Skin Deep," and they could have done without "Alive Again" and "Born With The Hunger," but that's it...heck Cher needs a 3 CD set!!!

This is pretty much a definitive collection of Cher's hits. Much more comprehensive than the 1999 "Greatest Hits" collection (International only) and the recent single-disc compilation, "The Very Best of Cher".

However, I found the sequencing on those CDs much better than this one. This one starts off with her 90s and 80s hits but it pretty much goes all over the map once you hit the halfway point on the first disc. The second disc is made up of some recent dance songs, classics from the 60s and 70s and some duets from each decade. But I wish the album had followed a chronological order. You get no sense of how Cher's voice or sound gradually changed throughout the years.

The one glaring omission is Cher's version of "Alfie" which hit the top 40 and a favorite of Cher's, and a version which is somewhat overshadowed by Cilla Black and Dionne Warwick's versions. I would also have liked to have heard more songs from her 1987 self-titled comeback album and 1996's "It's A Man's World".

A fantastic 2CD greatest hits collection with all the hits, old and new!

Me Arrepiento de Haber comprado el Cd En la version de EE.UU porque no es totalmente completa faltan canciones como The Music's No Good Whithout You y Otras, Por Eso le Doy 5 Estrellas.

Difficult to believe, but Cher has just celebrated her 40th birthday in music with an extraordinary hit collection. The last official compilations were on one CD only, but Cher's great talent could not be contained in such a little space. "The very best of Cher (2 cd set)" is the most complete official compilation up till now.
Cher has passed through four decades of the international music panorama, and that's a real record! Innocent, sexy, sophisticated, she has been able to constantly change in time and become one of the last real divas, who can always surprise us without any vulgarity but with a great sense of humor.

In these cds (more than 2 hours of music), we can rediscover the songs of the beginnings in the 60es, with Sonny Bono ("I got you Babe", "The best goes on" and "Baby don't go"), the ones that marked her solo-debut in the 70es ("Gypsies, tramps and thieves", "Half-breed", "Dark lady" and "Take me home"); we can then enjoy the songs of her brilliant return to the scenes in the late 80es ("I found someone", "If I could turn back time" and "Just like Jesse James") up to the ones of the 90es ("The shoop shoop song", "Love and understanding" and "One by one"). We finally come to the planetary hit "Believe", that gave back to Cher the role of the great interpreter that she deserves. "Believe" is the best selling album of her solo career. Thanks to this dance ballad she conquered the hearts of a new generation of admirers, fascinated by her charisma.
In the collection we can also find the songs of the dance turning point ("Strong enough", "All or nothing"), some of the recent hits contained in the last album "Living proof" ("The music's no good without you", "Song for the lonely" and "A different kind of love song") and some extra-tracks that did not get the same success of the most famous songs, but are interesting anyway ("Rudy", "Bad love", "Più che puoi" with Eros Ramazzotti, "All I never need is you" - Sonny and Cher - and "Born with the hunger", from the album "Not commercial", released for internet sale only).

Cher is not only a singer, an actress or a soubrette...she is all these things with the addition of a secret ingredient that nobody has been able to identify yet.
For the historical fans, this collection represents a synthesis of a boisterous career and for the new ones the perfect starting point to appreciate this fantastic woman.

Incredible Cher!

The reason I say that in the caption is, there are several separate listings for CDs with the exact same cover and the same tracks on two discs, then there's one with a single disc and just 20-odd tracks. The one I have seems to be a match for this listing as it comes from Warner Special Marketing/MCA and has the same tracks.

I do know that, when I purchased my copy, I did so with some misgivings. I mean, here was a lady who, after splitting with Sonny, went on to register 33 Billboard Pop Hot 100 hit singles from 1965 to 1999 plus two more that made only the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts. So, I was kind of hoping that, in a collection with 42 tracks, we'd be getting all 35 of those hits at least, along with perhaps some of the better B-sides.

But no, instead they throw in five of her duets with Sonny (tracks 8, 9, 14, 20 and 21 on disc 2), and you have to wonder why since those are readily available on several CDs dealing with the duo (e.g., The Best Of Sonny & Cher: The Beat Goes On from Atco/Atlantic). Anyone who knows Cher's music will see at a glance that at least half a dozen of the cuts here were not among her "very best" - at least insofar as that term applies to her hit singles.

Where, for example, is Where Do You Go? which, at # 25 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in late 1965 on Imperial, was really her first true "solo" hit, even though All I Really Want To Do (which is here) came out a few months earlier and went to # 15, since Sonny provided "backing" vocals on that Imperial release. And what about Alfie, a # 32 in summer 1966 and You Better Sit Down Kids, a # 8 in late 1967 and her last Imperial hit.

In June 1972, now at Kapp Records, she had Living In A House Divided go to # 3 AC/# 22 Hot 100 and, in August 1974, had I Saw A Man And He Danced With His Wife make it to # 3 AC/# 42 Hot 100. Some might argue that the latter was not included since it failed to reach the Hot 100 Top 40, but then they do include the 1996 # 52 One By One and the 1999 # 57 Strong Enough (which also made # 8 and # 29 AC respectively). By that reckoning they could have included the Neil Sedaka-penned tune, Don't Hide Your Love, which finished at # 19 AC/# 46 Hot 100!

What is here has excellent sound reproduction, and while the four pages of liner notes by author, film critic, and TV personality Kurt Loder are interesting and informative, having it printed in light grey font on a purple background makes them very difficut to read, even if you have 20-20 vision. Also, the re-listing of the tracks, while showing composers/writers, year of recording, and the album in which each originally appeared, offers nothing in the way of chart results. Two more nice shots of the beautiful Cherilyn Sarkisian are included.

Not a bad collection - just that it could have been more definitive of her "very best" with just a bit more thought.