20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Asia [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Asia

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 2003)
• Original Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B0000C5RQM
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #243,170 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."

To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid - Not a real CD, does not rip to MP3., September 18, 2006

By	Jonathan Acheson "Jon Acheson" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

While this disc contains a decent selection of Asia's songs, it doesn't actually carry the Compact Disc logo. This usually happens when labels try some bogus copy protection scheme on a disc, and this one is no exception. It looks like they have put a fake, empty data partition on the CD to trip up people who try and rip the tracks to MP3 on their computers.

It's a shame, because this is an otherwise fine collection of songs.

While it is still possible to rip the songs to MP3 (by recording the tracks one at a time and then ripping them), the annoyance involved means you are better off just buying a different greatest hits collection such as the Definitive Collection or Asia Gold.

On a personal note, I also missed the presence of the Roger Dean artwork that graced the original album covers.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grade A-, December 18, 2003

By	Eric J. Weik "ejwtfw" (Dyersburg, TN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A good collection of Asia's songs, better than THEN & NOW, but not as good as HEAT OF THE MOMENT, THE VERY BEST OF ASIA. The later has a lot more songs.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Awesome, August 5, 2004

By	Squonk (The dark forests of Pennsylvania, where hunters follow by moonlight my silvery trail of tears) - See all my reviews

This is one of the greatest compilation CD's I've ever come across for any band. I am like a lot of people when it comes to such things; I only know two or three of the songs before I buy the thing, and I only listen to the others about once. This disc is different. I still only knew the first two tracks, but I grew to love the others after hearing them just once! The disc offers good coverage of the Wetton years of Asia, before all the breakups. It includes several songs from each of the early and middle albums, and puts them in order of their debut (Asia, Alpha, Astra, Then & Now). Geffen and 20th Century did an excellent job mastering the audio; it sounds excellent. Asia is never given due credit, but this band pioneered many of the aspects of music we take for granted today. This compilation offers all the songs one would ever need to hear to understand why the last sentence is 100% true. Happy listening.