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| | Greatest Hits: Postcards from East Oceanside | | | Music Artist : | | Paula Cole | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Rhino / Wea | | Release Date : | | 2006-06-20 | | Store Price : | | $7.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $7.47 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. I Am So Ordinary
2. Me
3. I Believe In Love
4. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
5. Amen
6. Feelin' Love
7. I Don't Want To Wait
8. God Is Watching
9. Carmen
10. Happy Home
11. Autumn Leaves
12. Saturn Girl
13. Hush, Hush, Hush
14. Bethlehem
15. Tomorrow I Will Be Yours
16. Postcards From East Oceanside
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 My FAVORITE album, I love this mix!
Submitted on: 2009-06-17 |
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| I always enjoy Paula Cole, but I particularly love this mix. Well balanced, this CD is easy listening yet moving. |
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New tracks are fabulous
Submitted on: 2008-04-20 |
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I'm not a fan of compilations, but the new tracks on this release, Tomorrow I Will Be Yours and Postcards from East Oceanside, are both wonderful. The first, especially, stands with the best work she has ever done. It has a glorious melody that lets her voice really shine. This is when I love her voice best ... when she is really singing both forcefully and emotionally.
(For the record, I didn't download the previously released songs, so I am not commenting on them, just the two new tracks.)
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Fabulous!
Submitted on: 2008-04-06 |
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| I have always loved Paula Cole's sound but had never purchased any of her music. I was perusing the music section one day and came upon this cd. I knew I HAD to have it and I have not been disappointed! |
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Stunning
Submitted on: 2007-10-27 |
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If you've not encountered the voice of Paula Cole before, this album is a great collection of songs from her first three albums. If you have her earlier albums you may question buying this, but this is one album where the extra tracks are worth getting.
Paula has surely the purest voice you can ever hope to hear, always emotive, and an amazing range of soft tenderness and power often transitioning from one to the other in a heartbeat. But don't think of simpering, wimpy softness or boring "diva" power that leaves you cold - there's too much heart in this woman to fall into either of those traps.
Lyrically you'll find a mix of story-telling, metaphor, and introspection. It's not just her voice that has the power and tenderness though, for certain of her songs themselves stand among the most beautiful ever written.
Musically, there's a fairly broad mix here from a couple of quite poppy songs, to simple and emotive, just plain sexy ("Feelin' Love"), to jazzy, to the unique, but there's nothing about any of them that smacks of being contrived or manufactured.
Fans of Paula will always find a few songs that they would have liked instead of some selected here, but that just goes to show what a great collection of songs Paula produced in just the three albums this collection is taken from. Personally I would have liked to see some of the angrier tracks like "Throwing Stones" or "Mississippi" on here to give a fuller range of Paula's songs.
What of the extra tracks? There's a cover of "Autumn Leaves", which is gentle and a great way to hear Paula's voice with little accompaniment. "Postcards from East Oceanside" is also a great song - quiet and whispy at times, utterly rousing at others. The gem here is "Tomorrow I Will Be Yours" - a beautiful story-telling song about lost but unforgotten love that builds as the story is told to a strong final chorus and closing verse that, with the combination of Paula's voice and lyrics, is pure emotive genius!
Buy this collection of songs from a truly unique and wonderful singer/songwriter and find that for 78 minutes at a time you won't be able to help but smile. And you don't get that with the manufactured tripe so common these days. |
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A beautiful CD
Submitted on: 2007-06-17 |
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| How many of us have bought a CD just to be bummed that there are only a few songs we enjoy, Or a few fast ones that upset the flow of the mellow ones we had begun to relax to? This one is a relaxing, beautiful, enjoyable experience from begining to end. This has become one of my favorites. |
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