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| | Joan Baez - Greatest Hits | | | Music Artist : | | Joan Baez | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | A&M | | Release Date : | | 1996-05-07 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.97 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Diamonds & Rust
2. Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
3. Simple Twist of Fate
4. Imagine
5. In the Quiet Morning (For Janis Joplin)
6. Best of Friends
7. Forever Young
8. Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
9. Jesse
10. Children and All That Jazz
11. Please Come to Boston
12. Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
13. Gracias a la Vida
14. Sweeter for Me
15. Love Song To A Stranger
16. Dida
17. Amazing Grace
18. Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti [*]
19. Oh Happy Day [*]
20. Less Than the Song [*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 joan baez greatest hits
Submitted on: 2009-10-09 |
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| I bought this CD for Diamonds and Rust, and as it turns out, it's the best song on the CD. |
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 What were you thinking Joan?
Submitted on: 2008-12-29 |
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| I've long been a fan of Joan's distinctive vocal sound. What a shame that in her later career she has been the victim of cheesy arrangements and second rate material. Only a few tracks on this CD are listenable. I'm going to look around for some of her earlier, more folksy songs. |
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 Good selections, but...
Submitted on: 2008-10-24 |
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| This recording is some of Joan's best stuff. I would have chosen her greatest hits a little differently tho. Still a good listen |
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Good collection, but a couple of corrections
Submitted on: 2008-09-08 |
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'Greatest Hits' is a good (not perfect) overview of Joan's A&M years - which, other reviewers fail to understand, do not encompass her popular 1971 Blessed Are... album (the one that includes the original version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.") By the way, I recommend Ace Records' Best of the Vanguard Years to survey Joan's early years. All of her original Vanguard LP's have been reissued, too.
But, my point here to is correct two aspects of the liner notes and track selection. First, the version of "Forever Young" included here is not the original 1974 single version (though that's what the liner notes claim). Rather, it's the live version on From Every Stage (1976). Too bad - the single is better. Note that you can download the original studio version from her Complete A&M Recordings collection.
Second, the version of "Dida" included here is the jazzy 1975 version (from Diamonds & Rust with Joni Mitchell and Tom Scott. The liner notes claim it's the original 1974 version from Gracias a la Vida. Which, IMHO, is a good thing - but the liner notes are incorrect... |
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JOAN BAEZ IN THE 1970s,
Submitted on: 2008-07-21 |
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| There is only one voice of Joan Baez. Her protest songs of the 1960s were her best in my opinion. |
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